CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Advancing Cyberinfrastructure-based Science through Education, Training, and Mentoring of Science Communities

CI-TEAM 示范项目：通过科学界的教育、培训和指导推进基于网络基础设施的科学

• 批准号: 0636317
• 负责人: Deana Pennington
• 金额: $ 24.97万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 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: 2006-10-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0636317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Demonstration; Project; Advancing

Progress in cyberinfrastructure depends on workforce development both within computer science and across many application domains. A key issue is the need for effective processes by which scientific communities can learn to integrate cyberinfrastructure into their research. This University of New Mexico project will develop an innovative process for mobilizing a group of distributed, interdisciplinary scientists into a community of practice that is able to effectively embed cyberinfrastructure-enhanced approaches into their work. The project will contribute to our understanding of sociotechnical issues of cross-disciplinary, distributed collaboration, while also generating innovative research approaches in a community that has not traditionally been represented in high-end scientific computing. The target scientists are engaged in forecasting the impact of climate, population, and land cover/land use change on plant distributions in the American Southwest. There are four research groups represented, each of which is approaching the problem from a different perspective. Collectively they could develop complex approaches that integrate the strengths of each, if the technical, disciplinary and institutional barriers could be overcome. The approach will make use of our best understanding of computer-mediated distributed collaboration and will partner the scientists with technology and cyberinfrastructure specialists to overcome these barriers. We will use a combination of education, training, and mentoring tasks informed by social science and organizational learning theory. The project includes a graduate seminar on cyberinfrastructure that will be hosted on the AccessGrid by the Rio Grande Corridor High Performance Computing Centers and taught simultaneously at six institutions, allowing for participation by remote researchers via desktop teleconferencing. The seminar will expose participants to a range of cyberinfrastructure topics and ongoing cyberinfrastructure projects at participating and national computing centers. This project will have broad impacts through introducing a new scientific community, composed of all levels from graduate students to late career professionals, and consisting of nearly equal-representation of women, to a new way of doing science. It will form new partnerships across scientific and technical disciplines. It will provide an innovative new pathway for moving groups of scientists to cyberinfrastructure-based approaches that can be replicated in any science community. Such replication is essential for answering the complex, broad-scale, and integrative questions that typify 21st century science.

网络基础设施的进步取决于计算机科学内部和许多应用领域的劳动力发展。 一个关键问题是需要有效的流程，科学界可以通过该流程学习将网络基础设施整合到他们的研究中。 新墨西哥大学的这个项目将开发一种创新流程，将一群分散的跨学科科学家动员到一个实践社区中，从而能够有效地将网络基础设施增强的方法嵌入到他们的工作中。 该项目将有助于我们理解跨学科、分布式协作的社会技术问题，同时也在传统上未在高端科学计算中得到体现的社区中产生创新的研究方法。 目标科学家致力于预测气候、人口和土地覆盖/土地利用变化对美国西南部植物分布的影响。 有四个研究小组代表，每个小组都从不同的角度来处理这个问题。 如果能够克服技术、学科和体制障碍，他们就可以共同开发出整合各自优势的复杂方法。 该方法将利用我们对计算机介导的分布式协作的最佳理解，并将科学家与技术和网络基础设施专家合作克服这些障碍。 我们将结合社会科学和组织学习理论的教育、培训和指导任务。 该项目包括一个关于网络基础设施的研究生研讨会，该研讨会将由里约格兰德走廊高性能计算中心在 AccessGrid 上主办，并在六个机构同时授课，允许远程研究人员通过桌面电话会议参与。 该研讨会将使与会者了解一系列网络基础设施主题以及参与国家计算中心正在进行的网络基础设施项目。该项目将通过引入一个新的科学界来产生广泛的影响，该科学界由从研究生到已故职业专业人员的各个级别组成，并且由几乎平等的女性代表组成，采用一种新的科学研究方式。 它将在科学和技术学科之间建立新的伙伴关系。 它将提供一条创新的新途径，使科学家群体转向基于网络基础设施的方法，这种方法可以在任何科学界复制。 这种复制对于回答 21 世纪科学典型的复杂、广泛和综合的问题至关重要。