2024 - NSF Research Infrastructure Outreach

Research Infrastructure Guide (RIG): Summary of Significant RIG Revisions

Summary of significant revisions to the Research Infrastructure Guide (RIG).

Authors: Matthew Hawkins, Richard Oram, Alison Rockwell, Roland Roberts, Charlotte Roehm, Christopher Davis, Steven Ellis, William Miller, Kevin Porter, Stella Osifo, Ryszard Kaczmarek, Facundo Funes, Michael Corn, Mark Warner, Carol Wilkinson, Blaise Stephanus

PIVOT Project (Automotive Research Datasets)

The Platform for Innovative use of Vehicle Open Telematics (PIVOT) project is an NSF-funded effort to develop a community-based platform intended to catalyze the production and consumption of automotive and heavy duty datasets and associated tools to support the computer science and engineering community pursuing research in vehicle system cybersecurity, intelligent transportation, and smart and connected communities.

SPHERE Research Infrastructure

USC-ISI, NEU, and Utah have been funded by the NSF mid-scale research infrastructure program to build Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation (SPHERE). This infrastructure for cybersecurity experimentation will offer a variety of user-configurable hardware, software, and network resources, six user portals geared toward different populations of users, and support for reproducible research via infrastructure services and community engagement activities.

A hypergravity laboratory platform

The NSF NHERI funded Center for Geotechnical Modeling at UC Davis comprises 1m- and 9m-radius centrifuges and ancillary equipment that allow researchers to perform experiments in a hypergravity field of up to 80g. Prior results include seminal contributions to design of civil infrastructure systems. This poster will provide a brief overview of the facility, show examples of past contributions, highlight envisioned future opportunities, and summarize how any researcher can access the facility.

Barrow Arctic Research Center Science & Logistics

UIC Science provides a wide variety of logistical services for Arctic research projects based out of Utqiaġvik, AK. As an Alaska Native Corporation, UIC Science delivers success by understanding the complex politics, culture, land use issues, regulations, and environmental conditions impacting scientific research and support. UIC Science support is based out of the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC), a cutting-edge research facility that serves as a center for learning and exploration.

Supporting research at MF by Using R&E Networks

An outcome of the IRNC program has been the partnerships between the NREN operators to reach and support production use of multi-Gbps connectivity to remote science instrumentation. Leveraging R&E networks is a cost effective way for MF to transport science data to U.S.-based data processing centers. This poster presents a successful partnership between the IRNC AmLight international R&E network consortium and the ground-based astronomy community in Chile, featuring the Vera Rubin Observatory.

The NSF CI Compass Project

This poster presents the CI Compass project – an NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Center of Excellence, which provides expertise and active support to CI practitioners at NSF Major Facilities in order to accelerate the data lifecycle and ensure the integrity and effectiveness of the CI upon which research and discovery depend. This poster will provide an overview of CI Compass activities – engagements, topical working groups, community building, student program, and dissemination of best practices.

gLOWCOST: Global Low-Cost Cosmic Detector Network

This project implements a world-wide network of cosmic ray detectors for modeling and monitoring the dynamic changes of terrestrial and space weather in real-time and building climate research awareness across the globe. This project will provide the means to create a community where transformative and transitional ideas can be generated through the exchange of data, educational material, and underlying social and cultural contexts of our global network of partners.

FAIR Data Implementation at NSF Major Facilities

Data management and FAIR data is an important topic for Major Facilities. The CI Compass FAIR Data Topical Working Group is a resource and community to discuss these issues. The group aims to understand the current practices and needs of FAIR implementation by MFs; research current and emerging FAIR data practices and implementation; organize guest speakers regarding FAIR; and disseminate research regarding FAIR data practices and implementation.

NSF OPAL & Mid-scale Award Project Management

NSF OPAL is a mid-scale, RI-1 design project with the goal of moving into a RI-2 construction award. An overview of project management approaches and challenges related to this path will be presented.