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OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | November 30, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | November 30, 2018 |
| Award Number: | 1831116 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Olivia Lee
OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | December 15, 2018 |
| End Date: | November 30, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $140,847.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $140,847.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
7 LEBANON ST HANOVER NH US 03755-2170 (603)646-3007 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
19 Fayerweather Hanover NH US 03755-3716 |
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| NSF Program(s): | AON-Arctic Observing Network |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.078 |
ABSTRACT
This project stimulates scientific interest in an existing facility and dataset developed in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Polar Programs. This facility consists of 58 Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers located around the rocky coastline of Greenland, many of which have been collecting data nearly continuously for more than 10 years. This project fosters new and innovative research from these data by reaching out to science communities that include GPS experts and non-experts, or scientists that have not traditionally used GPS in their research. The investigators are increasing awareness of the facility and dataset and making the dataset more easily accessible. This project is important because it encourages innovative science from an existing large dataset that represents substantial investment of time, logistics, and funding by the NSF.
The Greenland Geodetic Network (GNET) is currently jointly managed by the US and Denmark. This project is developing a Research Networking Activity aimed at encouraging innovative scientific research from the existing GNET dataset. The project specifically 1) broadens community awareness of, and engagement with, the GNET resource through the development of a data portal; 2) encourages new and innovative use of these data with the guidance of a scientific Steering Committee that includes researchers both internal and external to the GPS community; and 3) provides guidance for continued GNET research and network maintenance based on input from the Steering Committee and community feedback, obtained at international conferences. The objective of these activities is to make GNET data more accessible to GPS experts and non-experts, with the express purpose of encouraging the science community to pose and answer new questions associated with this unmatched dataset.
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
Disclaimer
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This project developed a Research Networking Activity aimed at encouraging innovative use of the Greenland Geodetic Network (GNET), an existing resource, which was originally developed and maintained in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored projects. We specifically sought to:
- Broaden community awareness of, and engagement with, the GNET resource;
- Encourage new and innovative use of these data;
- Develop international partnerships for GNET research and network maintenance; and
- Provide guidance for continued GNET research and network maintenance.
Between the submission of the original RNA Proposal and the commencement of the Award, an MOU between the NSF and Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency (SDFI) was established. This MOU redefined the management structure of GNET and ensured its continuation for coming years. While this is an excellent result for the protection of the long timeseries that has been developed, we note that this has had an impact on our Project Goals.
With this MOU, two of our proposed Project Goals were immediately achieved:
- Develop international partnerships for GNET research and network maintenance; and
- Provide guidance for continued GNET research and network maintenance.
Based on the MOU, SDFI now owns the GNET GNSS hardware and is in charge of maintaining the infrastructure of the network. Further, a new GNET Governance Structure was created, which describes the roles of the current international group of stakeholders (namely, NSF and SDFI). And finally, the MOU specified that SDFI is to make GNET data freely and easily available to the user community. Overall, these changes will ensure the continuation of the network for the near future.
As part of our RNA, we created a website for GNET, http://go-gnet.org. The go-gnet.org website describes the complex governance structure of the network, as defined by the NSF-SDFI MOU. All entities involved recognize the complex relationship between the various stakeholders; this page aims to help researchers seeking new NSF funding to work with GNET data navigate the complexity. The site also provides high-end and casual users of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with direct access to: a) the geographic location of existing GNET stations; b) GNET contact information (now just our SDFI collaborators); c) links to GNET publications; and most importantly d) the data repositories of existing raw (RINEX) and processed (time series) GNET data. Under our funded RNA, the website had been served via Amazon Web Services (AWS), with editing resources provided by WordPress. This configuration was intended to foster a smooth transfer of ownership to SDFI.
Last Modified: 01/23/2023
Modified by: Robert L Hawley
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