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Global climate change and security and their effect on economies, food supplies, energy use, security and our increasingly populated coasts, is the most significant issue our children and theirs will deal with during their lifetimes. Recent years have seen significant strategic initiatives aimed at realizing national and global cyber infrastructures, which will enable seamless, secure, on-demand access to, and aggregation of, geographically distributed computing, communication and information resources. However, while the infrastructure is being built, its success will rely on dynamic computational methods that will integrate computers, networks, data archives, instruments, observatories, experiments, and embedded sensors and actuators. This will result in a new dynamic data-driven approach (DDDAS) paradigm for monitoring, understanding and managing natural systems – one that is information/data-driven and that symbiotically and opportunistically combines computations, experiments, observations, and real-time information to model, manage, control, adapt, and optimize. Such a pervasive DDDAS infrastructure will promise to lead to a new generation of oceanographic research and applications such as
- safe and efficient navigation and marine operations,
- efficient oil and hazardous material spill trajectory prediction and clean up,
- monitoring, predicting and mitigating coastal hazards,
- military operations,
- search and rescue, and
- prediction of harmful algal blooms, hypoxic conditions, and other ecosystem or water quality phenomena.
The goal of this research is to develop new infrastructure, theories, algorithms, engineering solutions and cross-disciplinary curricula to future challenging problems in oceanography. The specific goals include:
- To develop, deploy and evaluate a prototype pervasive dynamic oceanographic ecosystem that integrates sensors, networks, observatories, and computational algorithms to enable dynamic data driven research in oceanography and in particular the study of anoxia and hypoxia off the coast of New Jersey.
- To develop cross-disciplinary research curricula to provide students with the skills needed by the rapidly expanding network of research and applied observatories being constructed.
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