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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 29, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 29, 2018 |
| Award Number: | 1762039 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Martin Halbert
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | August 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $300,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $300,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
506 S WRIGHT ST URBANA IL US 61801-3620 (217)333-2187 |
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506 S. Wright Street Champaig-Urbana IL US 61801-3620 |
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BD Spokes -Big Data Regional I, Hydrologic Sciences, EarthCube |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This project will develop a cyberinfrastructure framework to facilitate research on the efficient management of agricultural practices and their impact on water resources in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). Large-scale data acquisition, integration, analysis, and visualization using data-enabled information technologies will accelerate the dissemination of knowledge, experience, and shared resources (e.g., technology, equipment, and people) among communities and partners. The key element of the project is a new cyber platform, the Upper Mississippi Information System (UMIS), which will provide water quality data within a rich spatio-temporal hydrologic context. The UMIS directly addresses three of the Grand Challenges for Engineering identified by the National Academy of Engineering: i) provide access to clean drinking water; ii) manage the nitrogen cycle; and iii) engineer the tools of scientific discovery. The UMIS will immediately begin facilitating data access, integration, and scientific discovery for water quality challenges in the UMRB.
UMIS will offer internet-based open access to water quality information in its meteorological, hydrological, and geographical context, providing almost endless potential benefits for stakeholders. For example, the experimental design of the UMIS will enable researchers to study spatial scaling, efficiency of various land use and agricultural practices to improve water quality, and the impact of climate change on land management and water quality. Decision-makers, producers, and extension staff will be able to assess the relative efficacy of local (e.g., best management practices) versus system-level (e.g., state programs) solutions designed to reduce pollution, optimize the use of resources, and evaluate tradeoffs among competing objectives. For all stakeholders, the UMIS will support partnerships and collaborations, increase dissemination of information about a critical natural resource to empower stakeholders at all levels, and set new standards in the communication of scientific data.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This collaborative project with the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and University of Illinois is developing a cyberinfrastructure framework, the Upper Mississippi Information System (UMIS). UMIS facilitates research on the efficient management of agricultural practices and their impact on water resources in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB), including facilitating data access, integration, and scientific discovery for water quality challenges in the UMRB. It provides water quality data within a rich spatio-temporal hydrologic context. UMIS directly addresses three of the Grand Challenges for Engineering identified by the National Academy of Engineering: i) provide access to clean drinking water; ii) manage the nitrogen cycle; and iii) engineer the tools of scientific discovery.
The roles of the University of Illinois in this collaborative effort are:
- Developing cyberinfrastructure technology and interoperability specifications, and
- Building/networking community .
Our interoperability-related activities successfully established API specifications (https://github.com/geostreams/geostreams/blob/master/swagger.yaml, in OpenAPI specification) for a data access and query catalog on the Great Lakes to Gulf Virtual Observatory (GLTG) and provided reliable web-based data services from GLTG. The GLTG project is another cyberinfrastructure to manage water quality data funded by Walton foundation. Moreover, the performance of the web service was improved by using binning of data points by different time periods (e.g. day, month, and year). The API specifications and implementation have been tested between UMIS and GLTG repositories, confirming GLTG is able to consume UMIS data and UMIS can consume GLTG data. In order to enhance interoperability, a web service client to GLTG web service called pyGeotemporal (https://github.com/geostreams/pygeostreams) has been developed and published. We have added the capability to convert data into a Pandas data structure to the pyGeotemporal-pandas library (https://github.com/geostreams/pygeostreams-pandas), for data scientists who use Pandas.
The project also established strong community networks and partnerships by engaging stakeholder groups in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and Lower Mississippi River Basin. The University of Illinois and NGRREC teams raised awareness of the project among environmental stakeholder groups during project webinars and follow-up discussions, encouraging use of the website to support their conservation efforts. These groups include:
- Upper Mississippi River Basin Association,
- Illinois Nutrient Monitoring Council,
- River Rally 2019,
- American Farmland Trust,
- Iowa Environmental Council,
- Izaak Walton League,
- Prairie Rivers Network (Illinois),
- the Nature Conservancy (Illinois and Iowa),
- Illinois Environmental Council,
- The Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee,
- EPA Hypoxia Task Force (who have been notably active participants in terms of trends analysis)
- EPA Hypoxia Task Force Trends Work Group.
Last Modified: 09/09/2021
Modified by: Jong S Lee
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