Collaborative Research: EAGER: Leveraging Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Developing Organizational Resilience for NSF Large Facilities in the Pandemic Era

合作研究：EAGER：在大流行时代利用先进的网络基础设施并提高 NSF 大型设施的组织弹性

• 批准号: 2042055
• 负责人: Kerk Kee
• 金额: $ 16.95万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2042055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; Leveraging; Advanced

The COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020 has created major disruptions to the research enterprise. NSF-supported large facilities are critical elements of US research infrastructure and are increasingly dependent on advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) – comprising advanced computing, data and software assets, networking, and the related specialized workforce – to accomplish their science missions. This study investigates how large facilities are impacted by, and are responding to, the pandemic challenge with a focus on understanding factors related to the use of existing CI. This project will also explore the value of CI in the broader social context of how people and the facilities perceive and respond to major disruptive events. The goal is to determine how to design large facility organizations to be more resilient during crises and major disasters and what CI capabilities are needed to support these and other large science projects to accomplish their science missions during such disruptions.This study comprises three main research questions related to NSF large facilities and CI during the pandemic: (a) What types of research activities remain "business as usual" and what types of activities must adapt or stop completely under pandemic conditions? (b) If facilities could turn back time, what would they have done to better prepare? And (c) What lessons are facilities learning from the current disruptions, and how can these be best disseminated to the facility, CI, and research communities? The approach is grounded in Weick's Theory of Organizing, and examines disruptions from the environment (ecological change) through the stages of enactment (immediate actions), selection (rules establishment), and retention (identification of approaches worth re-utilizing in future events), with feedback loops linking the stages and the environment. The project’s goals will be accomplished primarily through interviews with domain scientists, CI users, developers, and administrators who are engaged in NSF large facility science and operations. The project will also analyze and document the organizational structures of the facilities to identify the key engagement points with national CI resources and services, towards enhancing the ability of the broader CI community to engage with the facilities. The ultimate objective of this project is to provide a framework for facilities and other large science projects to mitigate disruptions to their scientific and operational activities in current and future times of crisis. Study outcomes and findings will be widely disseminated to the stakeholder communities.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.

2020年的Covid-19全球大流行对研究企业造成了重大破坏。 NSF支持的大型设施是美国研究基础设施的关键要素，并且越来越依赖于高级网络基础设施（CI） - 编译高级计算，数据和软件资产，网络和相关的专业劳动力 - 以完成科学任务。这项研究调查了大型设施受到大流行挑战的影响，并正在响应大流行挑战，重点是理解与现有CI使用有关的因素。该项目还将探讨CI在更广泛的社会背景下的价值，即人们和设施如何感知并应对重大的破坏性事件。目的是确定如何设计大型设施组织在危机和重大灾难中更具韧性，以及需要哪些CI能力来支持这些和其他大型科学项目，以在此类中断期间完成其科学任务。这项研究构成了与NSF大型设施和CI相关的三个主要研究问题，该研究在pandmoot中仍然存在什么类型的活动：A（A），以及“ A”类型或类型的“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”类型或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ A”或“ a”类型。 （b）如果设施可以返回时间，他们会做些什么来更好地准备？ （c）设施从当前的中断中学习到哪些课程，以及如何最好地传播到设施，CI和研究社区？该方法基于魏克的组织理论，并通过颁布（即时行动），选择（规则建立）和保留（确定值得在未来事件中重新利用的方法）与反馈联系链接阶段和环境的方法（立即行动），选择（规则建立）和保留阶段（识别值得重新利用的方法）进行了考试。该项目的目标将主要通过与参与NSF大型设施科学和运营的域科学家，CI用户，开发人员和管理人员的访谈完成。该项目还将分析和记录设施的组织结构，以确定与国家CI资源和服务的关键参与点，以增强更广泛的CI社区与设施互动的能力。该项目的最终目标是为设施和其他大型科学项目提供一个框架，以减轻在当前和未来危机时期的科学和运营活动的中断。研究成果和调查结果将被广泛传播到利益相关者社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。