Earthcube RCN: Coral REef Science & CYberinfrastructure NeTwork (CReSCyNT)

该项目开发了珊瑚礁科学与数字基础设施网络(CReSCyNT)。作为生态系统工程师，珊瑚为生态系统提供营养、经济和结构基础，每年价值数十亿美元。CReSCyNT包含的更广泛的影响包括：(1)与专业学会的整合和交流；(2)与教育工作者和资源管理人员协作开发可视化产品；(3)连接以地点为基础的协作网络；(4)建立珊瑚礁学科的协作社区；(5)培训两名研究生；(6)在地球科学家、网络技术专家、医学科学家和图形艺术家(媒体)之间广泛转让学科专业知识；(7)提高地球科学中珊瑚礁数据的能见度和认识；和(8)便于用户使用的基于网络的可视化工具，向公众展示珊瑚礁科学的价值和地球立方体方案采用的创新方法珊瑚礁社区有非常多样化的数据结构和推进综合科学所需的分析要求。因此，它是其他地球科学界通过网络基础设施取得进展的典范。CReSCyNT将发展一个由珊瑚礁研究人员、网络基础设施专家和计算机科学家组成的多层次和多学科网络，最终目标是促进综合和互动研究。该网络将使珊瑚礁社区的数据来源、数据结构和分析需求与海洋科学、生物医学研究和图形艺术在数据管理、可视化和图像处理方面的最新进展相匹配，以促进珊瑚礁研究和应对海岸保护日益增长的挑战。该网络将汇集和沟通，以协调、规划和确定珊瑚礁社区内以及与更广泛的地球科学之间的网络基础设施需求的优先顺序。我们的目标是集体确定需求、最佳实践、瓶颈和途径或方法，以推进珊瑚礁领域的设计和最终开发数据管理、可视化和图像处理能力，该领域可直接和立即转换到更广泛的地球科学界。由五名成员组成的CReSCyNT促进委员会将领导一个围绕12个珊瑚礁学科节点和5个技术节点的网络的增长，其中每个节点代表珊瑚礁科学(或计算机科学)的一个子领域或学科，由该子学科的一名公认成员领导，倡导共享、透明、开放对话、创造力和跨地球科学的数据集成。在CReSCyNT会议、社交媒体和出席专业学会会议的推动下，每个节点的领导人将邀请其所属分支学科的成员广泛参与CReSCyNT活动。这些节点将被允许扩展、合并或拆分，以满足次级学科社区的需求和兴趣，同时通过节点协调员和正在进行的网络活动保持与CReSCyNT的联系。

This project develops the the Coral Reef Science & Cyberinfrastructure Network (CReSCyNT). As ecosystem engineers, corals provide the nutritional, economic, and structural basis of ecosystems worth billions of dollars annually. The broader impacts that CReSCyNT encompasses include: (i) integration and exchange with professional societies, (ii) development of visualization products in collaboration with educators and resource managers, (iii) connecting place-based collaborative networks, (iv) building a collaborative community in the coral reef discipline, (v) training of two graduate students, (vi) broad transfer of disciplinary expertise among geoscientists, cybertechnologists, medical scientists and graphic artists (media), (vii) raises visibility and awareness of coral reef data in the geosciences, and (viii) user-friendly web-based visualization tools accessible to the public that serve to showcase the value of coral reef science and the innovative approaches employed by the EarthCube programThe coral reef community has exceptionally diverse data structures and analysis requirements necessary to forward integrative science. It is therefore an exemplar for cyberinfrastructure-enabled advances to other geosciences communities. CReSCyNT will grow a multi-tiered and multidisciplinary network of coral reef researchers, cyberinfrastructure specialists, and computer scientists with the end goal of facilitating integrative and interactive research. This network will match the data sources, data structures, and analysis needs of the coral reef community with the current advances in data management, visualization, and image processing from ocean sciences, biomedical research, and graphic arts to advance coral reef research and meet the increasing challenges of coastal conservation. The network will assemble and communicate to coordinate, plan, and prioritize cyberinfrastructure needs within the coral reef community and with the broader geosciences. Our objectives are to collectively identify needs, best practices, bottlenecks, and avenues or approaches to advance the design and ultimately the development of data management, visualization, and image processing capacity for the coral reef domain that is directly and immediately translatable to the broader geoscience community.The five-member CReSCyNT Facilitating Committee will shepherd the growth of a network around 12 coral reef disciplinary nodes and 5 technology nodes, where each node represents a sub field or discipline of coral reef science (or computer science) that is led by a recognized member of that sub discipline in advocating sharing, transparency, open dialog, creativity, and the integration of data across the geosciences. Facilitated by CReSCyNT meetings, social media, and a presence at professional society conferences, the leader of each node will invite broad participation in CReSCyNT activities from members of their sub discipline. These nodes will be allowed to expand, coalesce, or divide to meet the needs and interests of the subdisciplinary communities, while maintaining a connection to CReSCyNT through the node coordinators and ongoing network activities.