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 NSF 支持的大型设施造成了重大破坏，这些设施是美国研究基础设施的关键要素，并且越来越依赖于先进的网络基础设施 (CI)——包括先进的计算、数据和软件资产、网络。以及相关的专业劳动力——以完成他们的科学任务。这项研究调查了大型设施如何受到流行病挑战的影响以及如何应对，重点是了解与现有 CI 使用相关的因素。 CI 的值更广泛的社会背景，即人们和设施如何感知和应对重大破坏性事件。目标是确定如何设计大型设施组织，使其在危机和重大灾难期间更具弹性，以及支持这些和其他大型灾难需要哪些 CI 能力。这项研究包括与大流行期间 NSF 大型设施和 CI 相关的三个主要研究问题：(a) 哪些类型的研究活动保持“一切照旧”以及哪些类型的活动必须适应或者在大流行情况下完全停止？ (b) 设施是否可以恢复？以及 (c) 设施从当前的干扰中吸取了哪些经验教训，以及如何最好地将这些经验传播给设施、CI 和研究界？该方法以 Weick 的理论为基础？通过制定（立即行动）、选择（建立规则）和保留（确定值得在未来事件中重复利用的方法）阶段，组织和检查环境（生态变化）的破坏，并通过反馈循环链接该项目的目标主要是通过采访从事 NSF 大型设施科学和运营的领域科学家、CI 用户、开发人员和管理员。该项目还将分析和记录设施的组织结构。确定国家 CI 资源和服务的关键参与点，以提高更广泛的 CI 社区参与设施的能力。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，以减轻对其的干扰。当前和未来危机时期的科学和业务活动。结果和调查结果将广泛传播给利益相关者社区。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。