Cooperative Support Agreement for Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) of the National Ecological Observatory

国家生态观测站重大科研装备设施建设（MREFC）合作支持协议

• 批准号: 1029808
• 负责人: Eugene Kelly
• 金额: $ 43378.99万
• 依托单位: National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1029808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cooperative; Support; Agreement; Major; Research

The biosphere is one of the planet's most complex systems with countless internal processes and interactions with the earth's physical processes and systems. It is imperative that we understand how the biosphere is responding to and affecting earth's physical systems, yet our understanding of the biosphere does not match our increasingly sophisticated understanding of the earth's physical and chemical systems at regional, continental, and global scales. The National Ecological Observatory (NEON) is designed to understand and predict: (1) how ecosystems work and respond to changes, especially at large scales; (2) how ecosystem processes feed back to alter earth system processes, including climate and hydrology; and (3) the implications of these processes and feedbacks for human endeavors. NEON will enable research on the impacts of climate and land use change, unsustainable water use, and invasive species on the Nation's living ecosystems at the temporal and spatial scales that are relevant to human well-being. NEON will be the first research platform and the only national experimental facility specifically designed to enable research to answer continental-scale questions on causes of and responses to environmental change and the mechanisms involved in observed changes. NEON will be the first experimental facility to collect consistent and standardized biological measurements across 106 sites nationwide in close to real-time.This award provides Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction funds to construct NEON. Funds are provided to deploy geographically distributed field and lab infrastructure networked via cybertechnology to form an integrated research platform. Cutting-edge sensor networks, instrumentation, experimental infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, support facilities including towers and board walks, and biological sampling plots will be deployed in the continental US, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska. Three airborne remote sensing systems and ten mobile laboratories will be constructed. Funds are provided for central technical, cyberinfrastructure, and project management facilities and support staff. Resources are provided to develop the NEON data products and to integrate federal agency operational data resources. Funds are provided to develop NEON's education and outreach portals and staff training programs. The data from these resources will be linked to computational, analytical, and modeling capabilities to create NEON's integrated infrastructure.

生物圈是地球上最复杂的系统之一，具有无数的内部过程以及与地球物理过程和系统的相互作用。我们必须了解生物圈如何应对和影响地球物理系统，但是我们对生物圈的理解与我们对区域，大陆和全球尺度上地球物理和化学系统的越来越复杂的理解不符。国家生态天文台（NEON）旨在理解和预测：（1）生态系统如何工作和响应变化，尤其是在大规模的情况下； （2）生态系统过程如何反馈到包括气候和水文学在内的地球系统过程； （3）这些过程和反馈对人类努力的影响。 NEON将对气候和土地利用变化，不可持续的用水以及与人类福祉相关的时间和空间量表的影响进行研究。霓虹灯将是第一个研究平台，也是唯一专门设计的国家实验设施，以使研究能够回答有关环境变化的原因和回答的大陆规模问题以及观察到的变化所涉及的机制。霓虹灯将是第一个在全国范围内106个地点收集一致和标准化的生物学测量的实验设施。该奖项为建造霓虹灯提供了主要的研究设备和设施建筑基金。提供资金来部署通过Cyber​​technology网络网络的地理分布的领域和实验室基础架构，以形成一个集成的研究平台。尖端的传感器网络，仪器，实验基础设施，网络基础设施，包括塔和董事会步行在内的支持设施以及生物抽样地块将在美国大陆，夏威夷，波多黎各和阿拉斯加部署。将构建三个空降遥感系统和十个移动实验室。为中央技术，网络基础设施以及项目管理设施和支持人员提供资金。提供资源来开发霓虹灯数据产品并整合联邦代理机构的运营数据资源。提供资金来开发霓虹灯的教育，外展门户和员工培训计划。这些资源的数据将链接到计算，分析和建模功能，以创建霓虹灯的集成基础架构。