FSML: Enhancements to Internet and communication systems at the KU Field Station

堪萨斯大学野外站（KUFS; www.kufs.ku.edu）获得了一笔拨款，为KUFS提供高速互联网服务和连接，以增强一般研究/教育设施、数据网络合作伙伴关系和正在进行的研究人员计划。具体来说，资金将用于通过单模光纤（电缆）将KUFS的设施和研究装置连接到堪萨斯大学主校区（堪萨斯州劳伦斯）。这种光纤连接为高速互联网连接提供了通信骨干，并连接到校园网络和其他资源。该奖项所带来的能力代表了KUFS逐步实现的更大愿景的一部分，其中来自世界各地的更多和多样化的学生和研究人员被吸引到以环保原则为灵感的世界级设施。KUFS为东部落叶林和高草草原生物群落之间的过渡带提供了研究和公共教育的机会。增强库fs的连通性将有助于实现库fs长期愿景的五个关键目标。首先，它将改善个人调查员研究的环境。其次，它将进一步促进需要电子连接才能蓬勃发展的多研究者、跨学科研究项目。第三，它将提供一种创新和互动的现场教学和外展机制。第四，通过监测建筑物和设施的能源动态，将促进库fs的运作，并通过实时监测来提高研究项目的安全性。最后，它将增强KUFS作为大型网络（例如，国家生态观测站网络[NEON]；美国农业部土壤气候分析网络；AmeriFlux和其他网络）中的节点的作用。该项目的通信升级由专业工程师和设计师开发，并将由KUFS及其母机构作为其持续设施运营的一部分进行维护。KUFS的活动包括广泛的教学、公共宣传和研究项目，目标人群从大学生到小学生，以及普通公众。KUFS的研究为社会提供了有关该地区陆地和水生生态系统的广泛知识基础，并促进了数十名学生和研究人员的发展。拟议的通信升级将有助于KUFS任务的发展：1)改善研究基础设施，使跨多个学科的项目能够访问实时数据；2)为本科生和研究生的教育提供一个更好的平台。重要的是，设施的改善将有助于KUFS成为区域和国家规模的科学和教育之间的纽带。随着NEON和其他网络的成熟或出现，KUFS作为长期数据集提供者的历史作用，以及作为开发对预测生态变化至关重要的新数据集的积极参与者，将得到强调。科学出版物和演示文稿显然是共享信息的一种手段，但KUFS还支持诸如数据库开发和为基础研究和应用研究生成遥感数据和图像等工作。这些努力创造了一个平台，各种各样的研究人员和教育工作者可以在此基础上开展工作。

The University of Kansas Field Station (KUFS; www.kufs.ku.edu) is awarded a grant to provide high-speed internet service to KUFS and connectivity to enhance general research/education facilities, data network partnerships, and ongoing researcher programs. Specifically, funds will be used to connect facilities and research installations at KUFS to the University of Kansas main campus (Lawrence, KS) via single-mode optical fiber (cable). This fiber connection provides the communications backbone for high-speed internet connectivity, and a link to campus networking and other resources. Capabilities enabled by this award represent one part of a larger vision for KUFS to be fulfilled incrementally, in which a greater number and diversity of students and researchers from around the globe are attracted to world-class facilities inspired by environmentally sound principles. KUFS provides opportunities for research and public education within the ecotone between the eastern deciduous forest and tallgrass prairie biomes. Enhanced connectivity at KUFS will help satisfy five objectives critical for realizing the KUFS long-range vision. First, it will improve the setting for individual-investigator research. Second, it will further facilitate multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research projects that require electronic connectivity to thrive. Third, it will provide a mechanism for innovative and interactive on-site teaching and outreach. Fourth, it will facilitate KUFS operations through the monitoring of energy dynamics of buildings and facilities, and will enhance security for research projects by allowing real-time monitoring. Lastly, it will augment KUFS' role as a node within large-scale networks (e.g., the National Ecological Observatory Network [NEON]; USDA Soil Climate Analysis Network; AmeriFlux; and other networks). The communications upgrades in this project were developed by professional engineers and designers and will be maintained by the KUFS as part of its ongoing facilities operations, and by its parent institution. KUFS activities encompass a broad array of teaching, public outreach, and research programs, targeting populations ranging from university students to school children, as well as the general public. Research at KUFS has provided society with a broad base of knowledge about terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the region, and has fostered the development of scores of students and researchers. The proposed communications upgrades will aid in the development of the KUFS mission by 1) improving research infrastructure to enable access to real-time data for projects spanning multiple disciplines; and 2) providing an enhanced platform on which to base undergraduate and graduate education. Importantly, improved facilities will help KUFS serve as a link between regional and national-scale science and education. As NEON and other networks mature or emerge, KUFS' historic role as a provider of long-term data sets, and as an active player in developing new data sets critical for forecasting ecological change will be highlighted. Scientific publications and presentations are an obvious means of sharing information, but KUFS also supports such efforts as database development and the generation of remotely-sensed data and images for basic and applied research. These efforts create platforms on which a diverse group of investigators and educators can base their work.