CI-TEAM Impl: Dynamic Interdisciplinary Research Environment to Engage and Develop a Cyber-Ready Workforce in the Geosciences, Social Sciences, and Computer Sciences

这个CI-TEAM实施项目正在开发一个跨学科的研究环境，为地球科学、计算机科学、科学和技术研究、人类学和物理学方面的网络劳动力做好准备。该项目让学生组成跨学科团队，共同开发、使用和传播使用虚拟现实（VR）和科学可视化的网络基础设施（CI）工具和技术，用于三个跨学科主题的研究和教育。该项目建立在该团队在Keck地球科学主动可视化中心（KeckCAVES） 6年多的跨学科合作中获得的知识和经验的基础上。KeckCAVES为跨学科研究和独特的交互式沉浸式虚拟现实环境提供了肥沃的环境，允许用户可视化和分析大型复杂数据集。智力价值：拟议的项目使学生和更高级的研究人员能够通过使用VR为地球科学，计算机科学，人类学，人文科学和物理科学的知识前沿做出贡献。它在三个新的、创新的、交叉的方向上扩展了技术和科学前沿：-通过远程沉浸式远程协作：团队正在开发远程沉浸式技术的创新方法，使不同地点的团队之间能够使用数据集进行远程交互，以促进研究和教学协作。在这个发展的过程中，学生们对VR和沉浸式可视化的行为有了更多的了解和洞察。-对自然灾害的快速科学反应（RSR）：团队正在开发CI能力，以快速收集、可视化和解释重大地质事件后收集的数据。这种能力将有助于我们了解导致地震、火山、山体滑坡和其他灾难性事件的地质过程。- 3d比较：团队正在开发使用交互式CI方法操作和定量比较数字表示对象的能力，用于各种应用程序，包括建筑物，文化遗产遗址，考古，地质和古生物样本的3d数字扫描。更广泛的影响：这个CI-TEAM项目通过吸引本科生和研究生使用基于虚拟现实的技术进行基于发现的科学研究，有助于发展多样化的网络劳动力。该团队正在吸引跨学科的学生和博士后，为他们自己和同龄人的研究共同开发CI工具，并培养一批具有跨学科团队工作经验的网络科学家和软件开发人员。该项目的参与者将有机会参与与美国和国际伙伴机构的合作。他们正在与学生和博士后一起开发创新的、高质量的学习技术和教学材料，这些技术和材料被多个学科和机构广泛采用。他们将通过在GNU通用公共许可证下提供软件来传播这些技术和方法；传播软件工具和文档，并发布教育模块、文档、研究和教育成果，以促进工具的使用。他们将为已建立的、有效的STEM外展项目提供可视化体验，这些项目有效地针对K-12学生。该项目开发的CI工具将推动三个关键领域的研究和教学进步：虚拟对象研究、不同团体和机构之间的远程协作以及对自然灾害的快速科学反应。这些技术的发展在协助多国机构根据复杂的数据作出合理的决定方面可能变得至关重要。

This CI-TEAM Implementation Project is developing an interdisciplinary research environment for preparing a cyber-enabled workforce in the geosciences, computer science, science and technology studies, anthropology, and physics. The project engages students in interdisciplinary teams to jointly develop, use, and disseminate cyber-infrastructure (CI) tools and techniques using virtual reality (VR) and scientific visualization for research and education across three interdisciplinary themes. The project builds on knowledge and experience that the team has gained over six years of interdisciplinary collaboration at the Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES). KeckCAVES provides both a fertile environment for interdisciplinary research and uniquely interactive, immersive virtual reality environments that allow users to visualize and analyze large and complex datasets. Intellectual Merit: The proposed project enables both students and more advanced researchers to contribute to the frontiers of knowledge in geosciences, computer science, anthropology, humanities, and physical sciences through the use of VR. It extends the technological and scientific frontiers in three new, innovative, yet intersecting directions: - Remote collaboration via tele-immersion: Teams are developing innovative methods of tele-immersion technology to enable remote interaction between teams of people at different locations with datasets, to facilitate research and teaching collaboration. In the process of this development, students are gaining knowledge and insight into the behavior of VR and immersive visualization. - Rapid Scientific Response (RSR) to natural disasters: Teams are developing CI capacity for rapidly collecting, visualizing, and interpreting data collected after major geologic events. This capacity will contribute to our knowledge of the geologic processes driving earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and other catastrophic events. - 3d Compare: Teams are developing the capacity to manipulate and quantitatively compare digitally represented objects using interactive CI methods for use in diverse applications including 3D digital scans of buildings, cultural heritage sites, and archeological, geological, and paleontological samples. Broader Impacts: This CI-TEAM project contributes to the development of a diverse, cyber-enabled workforce by engaging undergraduates and graduate students in the use of virtual-reality-based technology for discovery-based scientific research. The team is engaging students and postdocs across disciplines to co-develop CI tools for their own research and that of their peers, and to develop a cohort of cyber-enabled scientists and software developers with experience working on interdisciplinary teams. Participants in this project will have the opportunity to participate in collaborations with US and international partner institutions. They are developing with students and postdocs, innovative, high-quality learning technologies and instructional materials that are broadly adoptable by multiple disciplines and institutions. They will disseminate these technologies and methods by providing software under the GNU General Public License; disseminating software tools and documentation, and publishing educational modules, documentation, and research and educational outcomes to facilitate the use of the tools. They will provide visualization experiences to established, effective STEM outreach programs that effectively target K-12 students. The CI tools developed in this program will enable research and teaching advances in three critical areas: study of virtual objects, remote collaboration between various groups and agencies, and rapid scientific response to natural disasters. The development of these technologies could become vitally important in assisting multinational agencies to make sound decisions based on complex data.