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RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 22, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | December 19, 2019 |
| Award Number: | 1928393 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Sean Kennan
skennan@nsf.gov (703)292-7575 RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $1,030,243.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $1,030,243.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
3100 MARINE ST Boulder CO US 80309-0001 (303)492-6221 |
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3100 Marine Street Room 479 Boulder CO US 80303-1058 |
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| NSF Program(s): | EarthCube |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
QGreenland will create an interdisciplinary GIS data environment that is freely available and ready-to-use on the open-source QGIS platform. Designed in direct response to requests from the research community and needs identified by international and U.S. agencies, QGreenland will provide immediate impact for scientific research and exploration. QGreenland will improve data sharing for research and enable cross-community system science to advance knowledge and collaboration. The project has broader impacts owing to the importance of Greenland in general for understanding and prediction global climate. Greenland sustains a massive amount of land ice, the future of which will significantly determine to what extent sea levels rise.
QGreenland will address the limitations of current online GIS platforms and data services by providing a geoscience-focused but interdisciplinary package of professionally formatted data that is ready-to-use online or offline. QGreenland is modelled off of the widely used, award-winning Quantarctica package, an Antarctica GIS package developed by Project Collaborators at the Norwegian Polar Institute. Based on QGIS, a free, open-source, cross-platform GIS environment as the foundational software, QGreenland will offer a freely-redistributable package of original-quality data in a complete GIS environment. Three tiers of a data will be available, including web-served datasets. An international Editorial Board and diverse Project Collaborators will help the QGreenland Team identify key geospatial datasets and act as two-way connectors between QGreenland and user communities in the US, Greenland, and across the globe. QGreenland will provide a tool for visualization, individual GIS environment expansion, and to explore system science across geosciences, social sciences, and the built environment. QGreenland is also an instant in-field tool with a full set of reference data that can be used with no or limited internet access.
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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The QGreenland project (qgreenland.org) provides a free and easy-to-use mapping and data package for Greenland-focused research, education, and other uses. The primary QGreenland data package provides dozens of interesting and useful datasets that are already combined into a single digital mapping space. Exploring these data requires only 3 steps: download and install free QGIS software, download the free QGreenland package, and open the QGreenland project file. QGIS and QGreenland also work across computer operating systems.
QGreenland makes interdisciplinary Greenland-focused data quick to access and simple to use. Data already included in QGreenland covers many areas of interest, from roads and buildings to sea ice and bathymetry, from place names to ice sheet motion, from high-resolution satellite images to future projections of ice sheet extent, and much more. Because QGreenland works on the QGIS software, it is also easy to add, move, analyze, and share data. Via the Arctic Data Center QGreenland Data Portal, users can also quickly discover archived data that is in a geospatial format and containing Greenland locations so they can add data on topics that align with their interests and goals.
Every version of QGreenland, now available in v3, has been downloaded thousands of times and use cases include planning field work, data foundations for undergraduate teaching, base environment for field classes, shared workspace for non-collocated collaborators, maps for decision making discussion, data and tool for making presentation and publication figures, and more. Easy use of QGreenland is also supported by extensive tutorial and how-to items and complete documentation. A “QGreenland for Beginners” video tutorial series makes QGreenland tools usable even to those who have never tried GIS software before. For those with more advanced development skills, openly accessible code and workflows for the creation of QGreenland could be leveraged to create GIS data packages for entirely new locations or themes.
For educators, the QGreenland website provides access to a wide range of activities and curriculum. The semester-length PolarPASS curriculum (available at https://serc.carleton.edu/polarpass) also uses QGreenland to support polar and climate literacy goals and place-focused learning outcomes.
QGreenland was made possible via the NSF EarthCube grant funding and the efforts of the dedicated University of Colorado Boulder development team at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and CIRES Education and Outreach, and an international Editorial Board, who advised, tested, and disseminated QGreenland. QGreenland continues to be a well-used research and education tool that is also leading by example in the effort towards more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data to support positive societal outcomes. Learn more and explore QGreenland at qgreenland.org.
Last Modified: 12/26/2024
Modified by: Twila A Moon
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