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

该合同将为环境监测中心（CTEMPs）的运作提供资金。CTEMPs的使命是通过为美国国家科学基金会和更广泛的研究团体提供最先进的环境传感仪器和技术技能，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、地形和表面反射率的测量。CTEMPs促进的高时空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、湖沼学和地貌学等方面取得了突破。该中心在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方面有着悠久的历史。CTEMPS作为社区用户设施由四个机构运营：内华达大学里诺分校；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个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），通过公开发布的环境传感（开放实验室）转换现场仪器，以及小型无人驾驶飞机系统（sUAS）。从2023年开始，CTEMPs将重点关注以下四个目标：继续通过其DTS、开放实验室和sUAS项目为地球、极地、海洋和大气科学的各种研究项目提供仪器和专业知识。扩大仪器库，在培训和仪器贷款计划中包括分布式声学传感（DAS）的仪器和专家支持。3 .担任sUAS传感器和平台联合系统的协调者，以减少变革的新地球表面科学的障碍；提供跨学科研讨会，通过多传感器观测和实验设计的实践培训，扩大早期职业科学家的参与范围。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.