EAGER: Launch of a Water Science Software Institute (WSSI)

EAGER：成立水科学软件研究所 (WSSI)

• 批准号: 1151982
• 负责人: Stanley Ahalt
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 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: 2011-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1151982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Launch; Water; Science; Software

Water sustainability is a grand challenge problem that can only be addressed as a collaborative effort of a community of research communities who study water from many different perspectives. To date, progress on grand challenge-scale water research has been hindered by a lack of interoperability among data and computing resources that in-turn stems from a lack of coordination and rigor in software development practices across the water science community. This project formalizes and expands planning efforts initiated by a fall 2010 workshop on software challenges of the NSF's Environmental Observatory Networks (NSF Award #1049273) to develop a Scientific Software Innovation Institute (S2I2) centered on water science and environmental observation. The plan will guide formation of a Water Science Software Institute (WSSI) that addresses the community's interoperability problem by using Open Source principles to enable innovative and sustainable scientific software.The project involves two main activities: 1) determining the scope and the cyberinfrastructure requirements of the water science the WSSI addresses, and 2) developing a plan to apply the Open Source community model to this community of scientific research communities. To guide planning activities, two driving use cases are investigated: evaluating watershed best management practices, and understanding nitrogen dynamics and the impact of ecological patch structure. The use cases provide a source of cyberinfrastructure requirements and targets against which to evaluate the plan as it develops. The planning process mitigates the risks inherent in standing up this new kind of software institute, and it is a first step toward demonstrating how a software institute will transform water science.

水的可持续性是一个巨大的挑战问题，只能通过从许多不同角度研究水的研究团体的共同努力来解决。迄今为止，大规模挑战规模的水研究的进展一直受到数据和计算资源之间缺乏互操作性的阻碍，而这又源于整个水科学界软件开发实践缺乏协调和严格性。该项目正式确定并扩展了 2010 年秋季 NSF 环境观测网络软件挑战研讨会发起的规划工作（NSF 奖#1049273），以开发一个以水科学和环境观测为中心的科学软件创新研究所 (S2I2)。该计划将指导成立水科学软件研究所 (WSSI)，通过使用开源原则实现创新和可持续的科学软件来解决社区的互操作性问题。该项目涉及两项主要活动：1) 确定水科学软件研究所的范围和网络基础设施要求。 WSSI 所涉及的水科学，以及 2) 制定一项计划，将开源社区模型应用到这个由科学研究社区组成的社区。为了指导规划活动，研究了两个驱动用例：评估流域最佳管理实践，以及了解氮动态和生态斑块结构的影响。这些用例提供了网络基础设施需求和目标的来源，可根据这些需求和目标来评估计划的制定。规划过程减轻了建立这种新型软件研究所固有的风险，这是展示软件研究所如何改变水科学的第一步。