Collaborative Research: CUAHSI/CLEANER Demonstration and Development of a Test-bed Digital Observatory for the Susquehanna River Basin and Chesapeake Bay

合作研究：CUAHSI/CLEANER 萨斯奎哈纳河流域和切萨皮克湾试验台数字观测站的演示和开发

• 批准号: 0609832
• 负责人: Michael Piasecki
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-01 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0609832&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CUAHSI; CLEANER; Demonstration

Collaborative Proposal: CUAHSI/CLEANER Demonstration and Development of a Test-bedDigital Observatory for the Susquehanna River Basin and Chesapeake BayIntroduction: The proposed project will demonstrate the applicability and utility of a EnvironmentalDigital Observatory (EDO) design whose components are currently being developed by the HydrologicInformation System (HIS) group of CUAHSI for use by both the CLEANER and CUAHSI communities.While the 4 components of the EDO system have been identified (Environmental Digital Library (EDL),Environmental Observations Database (EOD), Digital Environment-Shed (DES), Environmental AnalysisSystem (EAS)), only some of the components are currently in a state to be deployed in a beta-testingmode, most notably the EDL and to some extent the DES. Because of the complexity of the systemcomponents it is impossible to produce a roll-out product that would meet all the expectations from thestart. Hence, it is crucial that these components are put to a test in a test-bed environment to investigatehow the components behave, what pieces are missing, what additional developments need to be carriedout, and most importantly whether they are effective for the purpose they were designed. Because of theenvisioned scope in funding and time as well as the availability and current state of the developments, thisproject will focus on the first of the components (the EDL), which constitutes the base layer upon whichall of the other components rest.Objectives: The objectives are to: (1) test and demonstrate the usefulness of a EDL for inclusion in theEDO as applied to nutrient fluxes in both the Susquehanna River Basin (SRB) and Chesapeake Bay (CB)for which a data gap analysis will be performed (2) demonstrate the feasibility of using existing CIcomponents (EDO from CUAHSI and CyberCollaboratory from CLEANER) to meet a merged andoverlapping science agenda as demonstrated on the SRB/CB test-bed, and (3) further develop and extendexisting components as well as provide feedback on the design and functionality of CI components to thetechnology partners at SDSC and NCSA.Methodology: To accomplish these objectives an instance of the EDL will be installed at DrexelUniversity. Together with the project partners representing an upstream Hydrologic Observatory regionand a downstream Environmental Observatory region, we will identify and collect as many nutrient dataas is possible and currently available for these regions for inclusion in the EDL. While the population ofthe EDL in the first step will require substantial effort to further develop current CI components(appropriate metadata tags and tools for creating instantiations) we will conduct a data gap analysis in theupstream region for missing or insufficient data. The gap analysis will be carried out using a statisticalmodeling tool (SPARROW), which will yield predictions that can be compared to existing data sets. Thequality or match of these comparisons will be an indicator for the overall quality of the data sets as far astheir temporal and spatial coverage is concerned. This is an important step towards an improvedknowledge on the fluxes, stores, and pathways of water as well as nutrients within the SRB and thereceiving waters of the CB.Intellectual merit: This project would be the first effort to investigate how hydrologists andenvironmental engineers can make use of the suite of technical support applications currently underdevelopment. This is a crucial step in further developing CI for the environmental and hydrologycommunities by providing feedback in a beta-testing mode. In addition, the use of the CyberCollaboratoryprototype will allow the project team to test a collaboratory system while executing a research project aswell as generate valuable information on how well the system can be used for the purpose of supportingobservatory science and design. Both systems are IT cornerstones for a shared CI between and CUAHSIand CLEANER and as such must be evaluated before being released to the communities.Broader impacts: Besides the impact this project will have on the CI development for hydrologic andenvironmental engineering communities in identifying future research needs, it will also address theeducational sector. One of the major goals of both communities is to bring water related data and toolsinto the class room as well to i) better train the future workforce on issues related to water, and ii) toexpose them to aspects of information technology that could place future professionals at the interface ofwater and IT, an educational goal that has been identified by the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel onCyberinfrastructure as being one of the most pressing educational needs of the future.

协作提案：Cuahsi/清洁剂的演示和开发Susquehanna河盆地和切萨皮克·贝辛（Chesapeake bayintrouction）的测试兼培养皿观测站：拟议的项目将证明环境层次观测值（EDO）设计的适用性和实用性，该设计目前是由Hyledologionie and cuah Systemi（Mis）组成的Cuah Systemi and Cuah Systemi a s Systemi sake Intologiatien（His）的使用。虽然已经确定了江户系统的4个组件（环境数字图书馆（EDL），环境观察数据库（EOD），​​数字环境避难（DES），环境分析系统（EAS），但只有一些组件目前处于一个国家，目前在一个beta-testing-testingmode中部署在beta-testingmode中，众所周知，eDL和某些范围是eDL的范围。由于SystemComponents的复杂性，不可能生产出可以满足Thestart所有期望的推出产品。因此，至关重要的是，这些组件在测试床环境中进行测试以调查组件的表现如何，缺少哪些零件，需要采用哪些其他开发项目，以及最重要的是它们是否有效地设计了它们的设计目的。由于资金和时间的范围以及发展的可用性和当前状态，该项目将集中在第一个组件（EDL）上，该组件（EDL）构成了其他组成部分的基础层，目标是：目标：（1）对：（1）在EDL中置于EDL的有用性，以供Nutife nutifions nutientions nutientions nutientions nutient inanna nutientions innann， （SRB）和Chesapeake湾（CB）将进行数据差距分析（2）（2）证明了使用现有的Cicomponents（来自Cuahsi的Edo和来自Cleaner的Edo的EDO）的可行性，以符合合并的和填充的科学，如SRB/CB/CB/CB的供应量以及（3），并进一步开发了（3）。 SDSC和NCSA的CI组件与Thetechnology合作伙伴的功能。方法：为了实现这些目标，将在Drexeluniversity上安装EDL的实例。与代表上游水文天文台区域和下游环境天文台区域的项目合作伙伴一起，我们将确定和收集，因为可能的养分数据是可能的，目前可用于将这些区域纳入EDL。尽管第一步中的EDL人口将需要大量努力来进一步开发当前的CI组件（适当的元数据标签和创建实例化的工具），但我们将在Theupstream区域进行数据差距分析，以使数据缺失或不足数据。差距分析将使用统计解码工具（SPARROW）进行，该工具将产生可以与现有数据集进行比较的预测。就其时间和空间覆盖而言，这些比较的质量或匹配将是数据集的总体质量的指标。这是迈向改善水的通量，商店和途径以及CB的养分的重要一步。Intlectual -Fertial：Intlectual Forect：该项目将是研究水平学家和环境工程师如何使用当前开发的技术支持应用程序的第一个努力。这是通过在β测试模式下提供反馈来进一步开发环境和水文学社区的CI的关键步骤。此外，使用网络企业推广的使用将使项目团队能够测试协作系统，同时执行研究项目，同时同样生成有关该系统如何用于支持Observatory科学和设计的宝贵信息。这两个系统都是与Cuahsiand清洁剂之间共享的CI的基石，因此必须在释放到社区之前对其进行评估。BRODER的影响：除了该项目对水文和伦敦环境工程社区CI开发方面的影响外，还将解决未来的研究需求，还将解决教育领域。这两个社区的主要目标之一是将与水相关的数据和工具带到课堂上，以及i）更好地培训未来的劳动力在与水有关的问题上，ii）ii）将它们展示到信息技术的各个方面，这些方面可能使未来的专业人员处于Water and IT的界面，这是NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Pancoration Personation Persecor to the Mestopition the Prestiation the Prestient of Cysecructire的教育目标，这些目标是PRESTIRE的一员。