CoPe: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Development of A Novel, Mobile Coastal Observatory for Quantifying Coastal Carbon Cycling by Professional and Citizen Scientists

CoPe：EAGER：合作研究：由专业和公民科学家开发新型移动式沿海观测站，用于量化沿海碳循环

• 批准号: 1940100
• 负责人: Peter Girguis
• 金额: $ 9.14万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940100&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CoPe; EAGER; Collaborative; Research; Development

Coastal zones provide a host of ecosystem services, including sequestering carbon dioxide produced by human activities. To date, quantification of coastal carbon sequestration (e.g., "Blue Carbon") and emissions are limited by an inability to adequately resolve spatial and temporal patterns of carbon concentrations and fluxes. This project embraces a new approach for the deployment, collection, and analysis of data for the goals of increasing our understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of coastal carbon cycling while simultaneously reducing barriers to accessing new technologies and empowering a range of stakeholders to collect and share data. This project will address the challenge of broader access by developing a local/regional HUB for sharing in situ sensors. This project leverages the "Share-Economy" human-technology relationship as a model (e.g., Zipcar, Airbnb) that may be adapted with "goods" and "services" re-defined by the activities of scientific data collection, instruments, and knowledge dissemination. The success of this model has wide ranging implications for how we develop and use other sensors and technology for understanding central processes in the functioning of our planet. This project will contribute not only an increased understanding of coastal carbon cycling, but also a new model for sensor sharing that will be widely applicable to other ecosystems and data collection needs. The results of this project will be disseminated widely through publications, conference presentations, press releases, and outreach to the public. For example, this project will engage a variety of users through sensor development workshops held at relevant conferences, and will engage the public through a free public lecture series at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) on "ZipScience: A 21st century approach to enabling the broad community to access emerging technologies." This project aims to quantify spatial and temporal patterns of carbon concentrations and fluxes in coastal ecosystems and to share this ability with a wide variety of end users. To do so, this project will develop novel "sensor systems" that leverage state-of-the-art, off-the shelf, commercial detectors and communication technologies. During this effort, this project will also entail the explicit recruitment and engagement of stakeholders (as well as computer scientists who specialize in online data management / presentation) to assess the value and sustainability of a "sensor-sharing" program that would allow stakeholders to check out, deploy, and return these systems to the local/regional hubs. Specifically, this project will develop wireless, easily portable sensor networks that: 1) quantify in situ inorganic carbon concentrations and fluxes as well as pH, temperature, oxygen, and other factors in coastal environments using industrial sensor technologies; 2) collect and preserve water, enabling a variety of lab-based investigations from microbiology to microplastic quantification; 3) use widespread cellular communications to pass data to a cloud-based web platform that will complete first-pass online data processing for rapid, online, and open-access visualizations. This project also includes a robust needs-based assessment to plan the next phase of coastal in situ sensor networks. As part of this assessment, these sensors will be employed by many different stakeholders for widespread data collection and processing. This project will then assess if a "rental and/or loan model" is a practical solution to meet broader community needs. Through workshops at relevant scientific meetings, and individual stakeholder interviews, this project will assess opportunities and challenges to widespread adoption of these core sensor packages, and develop a long-term strategy for inclusion of other sensors as well as sensor needs beyond what this project covers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

沿海地区提供了许多生态系统服务，包括人类活动生产的二氧化碳。迄今为止，沿海碳固相（例如“蓝色碳”）和排放的定量受到充分解决碳浓度和通量的空间和时间模式的限制。该项目采用了一种新的方法来部署，收集和分析数据，以增加我们对沿海碳循环的空间和时间动态的了解，同时降低了访问新技术并赋予一系列利益相关者收集和共享数据的障碍。该项目将通过开发用于共享原位传感器的本地/区域枢纽来应对更广泛访问的挑战。该项目利用“股份经济”人类技术关系作为模型（例如，Zipcar，airbnb），可以通过科学数据收集，工具和知识传播的活动来改编的“商品”和“服务”。该模型的成功对我们如何开发和使用其他传感器和技术来理解地球功能中的中心过程具有广泛的影响。该项目不仅会增加对沿海碳循环的了解，而且还将有一个新的传感器共享模型，它将广泛适用于其他生态系统和数据收集需求。该项目的结果将通过出版物，会议演讲，新闻稿和向公众推广广泛传播。例如，该项目将通过在相关会议上举行的传感器开发研讨会来吸引各种用户，并将通过在哈佛大学自然历史博物馆（HMNH）的“ ZIPSCIENCE：21世纪的方法：21世纪的方法：使广泛的社区能够访问新兴技术”上的免费公开演讲系列。该项目旨在量化沿海生态系统中碳浓度和通量的空间和时间模式，并与各种最终用户共享这种能力。为此，该项目将开发出新颖的“传感器系统”，以利用最先进的货架，商业探测器和通信技术。在这项工作中，该项目还将涉及利益相关者的明确招聘和参与（以及专门从事在线数据管理 /演示文稿的计算机科学家），以评估“传感器共享”计划的价值和可持续性，从而允许利益相关者退房，部署并将这些系统返回到本地 /区域套筒。具体而言，该项目将开发无线，易于便携的传感器网络：1）使用工业传感器技术在沿海环境中量化原位无机碳浓度和通量以及pH，温度，氧气和其他因素； 2）收集和保存水，从而实现了从微生物学到微型塑料定量的各种基于实验室的研究； 3）使用广泛的蜂窝通信将数据传递到基于云的Web平台，该平台将完成第一频道的在线数据处理，以进行快速，在线和开放式可视化。该项目还包括一项强大的基于需求的评估，以计划下一阶段的沿海原位传感器网络。作为本评估的一部分，这些传感器将由许多不同的利益相关者使用广泛的数据收集和处理。然后，该项目将评估“租赁和/或贷款模式”是否是满足更广泛社区需求的实用解决方案。通过在相关科学会议和个人利益相关者访谈中的讲习班，该项目将评估机会和挑战，以广泛采用这些核心传感器包，并制定长期策略来包含其他传感器以及传感器的需求，而不是该项目涵盖的范围，该奖项涵盖了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估范围的范围来反映了众所周知的范围。