United States Virgin Islands EPSCoR RII Program: Intercampus and Intra-campus Connectivity

美属维尔京群岛 EPSCoR RII 计划：校园间和校园内连接

• 批准号: 1108076
• 负责人: Henry Smith
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of The Virgin Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: United; States; Virgin; Islands; EPSCoR

Proposal Number: EPS-1108076Proposal Title: United States Virgin Islands EPSCoR RII Program: Intercampus and Intra-campus ConnectivityInstitution: University of The Virgin Islands (UVI)This Research Infrastructure Improvement project seeks to build on the Territory?s investments in cyberinfrastructure by providing the broadband connectivity needed to accelerate discovery and learning at the University of The Virgin Islands (UVI), an Historically Black University. This connectivity will allow UVI?s faculty and staff to be more fully integrated into nationwide interdisciplinary research collaborations though access to Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail (NLR). Through proposed curricular expansions, enhanced graduate research experiences, and high-performance computing training, UVI?s students will be better positioned for graduate school and life-long careers in marine science, mathematics, and computer science.Intellectual Merit By providing a high-bandwidth network interconnection from the St. Croix submarine landing station to UVI?s St. Croix campus, this project will connect UVI researchers, collaborators, and mentors across the Territory to each other and to others across the nation. The project aims to connect the St. Croix campus to the AMPATH International Exchange Point which would provide access to networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail (NLR). The enhanced cyber-infrastructure environment will support collaborative research projects underway at UVI in the broad area of marine science. Specifically, these projects focus on determination of factors that enhance or reduce a coral reef?s tolerance to environmental stress and resistance to transitions to alternate ecological states (ecological resilience). These projects also include robust field experiments, utilizing sophisticated environmental analysis techniques and developing high-resolution oceanographic models, to increase the understanding of how ecological patterns and processes are influenced by natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding these complex relationships is of paramount importance to managing them, especially considering that over the last three to five years the corals within the USVI experienced 30% to 40% mortality due to climate-induced stress (i.e. warm-water bleaching) and disease. The proposed infrastructure enhancements will ensure that research and educational activities have the collaborative bandwidth support needed for a reliable research and engineering network connection to key national and international collaborators.Broader ImpactsThrough UVI?s improved connection to AMPATH via the new fiber, underrepresented undergraduate students will have access to enhanced research and educational opportunities, which will better prepare them for success in graduate school and result in improvements in the Territory?s workforce. The project team aims to leverage the VI-EPSCoR marine science program at the University?s Center of Excellence in Marine and Environmental Studies called the Integrated Caribbean Coastal Ecosystems to develop scientific and technical services to support local decision-makers in natural resources management and spatial planning. The project will support training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines for students, who are underrepresented minorities and women, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The enhancements in this project will ensure continued broadband access and competitive options for the Territory. Data and results from studies conducted on the islands will be made far more accessible to distant collaborators and dissemination to stakeholders will be significantly improved.

提案编号：EPS-1108076 提案标题：美属维尔京群岛 EPSCoR RII 计划：校园间和校园内连通性机构：维尔京群岛大学 (UVI) 该研究基础设施改善项目旨在通过提供维尔京群岛大学 (UVI) 是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，需要宽带连接来加速探索和学习。这种连接将使 UVI 的教职员工能够通过访问 Internet2 和国家 Lambda Rail (NLR) 更全面地融入全国跨学科研究合作。 通过拟议的课程扩展、增强的研究生研究经验和高性能计算培训，UVI 的学生将能够更好地为研究生院和海洋科学、数学和计算机科学领域的终身职业做好准备。从圣克罗伊海底登陆站到 UVI 圣克罗伊校区的带宽网络互连，该项目将把整个领土的 UVI 研究人员、合作者和导师相互连接起来，并与全国各地的其他人连接起来。该项目旨在将圣克罗伊校区与 AMPATH 国际交换点连接起来，该交换点将提供对 Internet2 和国家 Lambda Rail (NLR) 等网络的访问。 增强的网络基础设施环境将支持 UVI 在海洋科学广泛领域正在进行的合作研究项目。 具体来说，这些项目侧重于确定增强或降低珊瑚礁对环境压力的耐受性和对向替代生态状态过渡的抵抗力（生态恢复力）的因素。这些项目还包括强大的现场实验，利用复杂的环境分析技术和开发高分辨率海洋学模型，以加深对自然和人为干扰如何影响生态模式和过程的了解。了解这些复杂的关系对于管理它们至关重要，特别是考虑到在过去三到五年中，由于气候引起的压力（即温水白化）和疾病，美属维尔京群岛内的珊瑚经历了 30% 到 40% 的死亡率。拟议的基础设施增强将确保研究和教育活动拥有与主要国内和国际合作者建立可靠的研究和工程网络连接所需的协作带宽支持。更广泛的影响UVI 通过新光纤改进了与 AMPATH 的连接，代表性不足的本科生将获得更多的研究和教育机会，这将更好地为他们在研究生院取得成功做好准备，并导致领土劳动力的改善。该项目团队旨在利用该大学海洋和环境研究卓越中心的 VI-EPSCoR 海洋科学项目（称为综合加勒比沿海生态系统）来开发科学和技术服务，以支持当地决策者在自然资源管理和空间规划。该项目将支持在本科和研究生阶段为少数族裔和女性学生提供科学、技术、工程和数学学科的培训。该项目的增强将确保该领土持续提供宽带接入和有竞争力的选择。在岛屿上进行的研究的数据和结果将更容易为遥远的合作者提供，并且向利益相关者的传播将得到显着改善。