Collaborative Research: CFS (Track III): Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs)

该奖项将资助变革性环境监测项目中心(CTEMP)的运作。CTEMP的使命是通过向NSF和更广泛的研究界提供最先进的环境传感仪器和技术技能来加速地球科学的发现。CTEMPs的仪器提供厘米到公里尺度的温度、声学、地形和表面反射率测量。CTEMP推动的高空间和时间分辨率观测在土壤水分量化、冰川动力学、地下水/地表水相互作用、雪水文学、海洋动力学、地形、大气混合、湖泊学和地貌学方面取得了突破。该中心有帮助研究人员克服在地球科学和工程界获得技术、培训、成本和专家支持方面的障碍的历史。CTEMPS由四个机构作为社区用户设施运营：里诺内华达大学、俄勒冈州立大学、沙漠研究所和科罗拉多矿业学院。CTEMPs协助来自世界各地的研究团队在四项核心仪器服务方面进行实验设计、现场实施和数据分析：光纤分布式温度传感(DTS)、分布式声学传感(DAS)、通过公开出版的环境传感(OPEN Lab)实现基于现场的变革性仪器，以及小型无人飞行器系统(SUAS)。从2023年开始，CTEMPs将专注于以下四个目标：1.继续通过其DTS提供仪器和专业知识，向地球、极地、海洋和大气科学的不同研究项目开放实验室和SUAS计划；2.扩大仪器池，将分布式声学传感(DAS)的仪器和专家支持纳入培训和仪器贷款计划；3.担任SUAS传感器和平台联合系统的协调人，以减少变革性新地球表面科学的障碍，以及4.提供跨学科研讨会，通过多传感器观察和实验设计方面的实践培训，扩大早期职业科学家的范围。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund the operation of the Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs). The mission of CTEMPs is to accelerate discovery in Earth sciences by making state-of-the-art environmental sensing instruments and technical skills available to the NSF and broader research communities. The CTEMPs’ instruments provide cm-to-km-scale measurements of temperature, acoustics, topography and surface reflectance. The high spatial and temporal resolution observations facilitated by CTEMPs have led to breakthroughs in soil moisture quantification, glacial dynamics, groundwater/surface water interactions, snow hydrology, ocean dynamics, topography, atmospheric mixing, limnology and geomorphology. The Center has a history of helping researchers overcoming barriers to access to technology, training, cost, and expert support in the Earth sciences and engineering communities. CTEMPS is operated as a community user facility by four institutions: University of Nevada, Reno; Oregon State University; Desert Research Institute; and Colorado School of Mines. CTEMPs assists research teams from all over the world in experimental design, field implementation and data analysis in four core instrument services: fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS), distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), transformational field-based instrumentation via the Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS Lab), and small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS). Beginning in 2023, CTEMPs will focus on the following four objectives: 1. Continue to deliver instrumentation and expertise through its DTS, OPEnS Lab and sUAS programs to diverse research projects in Earth, polar, oceanographic and atmospheric sciences, 2. Expand the instrument pool to include instruments and expert support for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in the training and instrument loan programs, 3. Act as a coordinator of a federated system of sUAS sensors and platforms to reduce barriers to transformative new Earth surface science, and 4. Provide transdisciplinary workshops that broaden inclusion of early career scientists through hands-on training in multi-sensor observations and experimental design.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.