Plain English Summary

The objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive, integrated data management system for the NSF-funded Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program, called CZOData. The overall goal for CZOData is to support, empower, and broaden the impact of CZO science and maximize the return on investment of the CZO program by transforming capabilities to easily share, integrate, analyze and preserve the wide range of multi-disciplinary data generated within and across CZOs.

This Year 2 Project Report describes accomplishments for the first full year the project was actively funded, from March 31, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Because of funding delays, we were granted a no-cost extension to March 31, 2015. Therefore, the project team considers that this Year 2 Project Report documents the midpoint of our project.

Abstract

The “Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories” (CZOData) Project was funded based on a solicited proposal submitted Aug. 1, 2011 by lead PI Mark W. Williams, (Univ. Colorado at Boulder) and with an originally proposed start date of Oct. 1, 2011 and end date of Nov. 2013.  The award (#1153164) was delayed but finally made with a start date of April 15, 2012.  However, in July 2012, only a few weeks after subcontracts had been issued, PI M.W. Williams stepped down and requested that the project award be transferred to Anthony Aufdenkampe (Stroud Water Research Center).  The effort to transfer the award to a new PI and institution (with a new award #1332257) unfortunately took until March 7, 2013 to be finalized.  This very significant delay in funding (20 months total) is noted because it required substantial alterations in the project timeline and a number of important alterations to the project scope, due to the evolving cyber-infrastructures of our project partners (i.e. CUAHSI and IEDA).

This Year 2 Project Report describes accomplishments for the first full year the project was actively funded, from March 31, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Because of funding delays, we were granted a no-cost extension to March 31, 2015. Therefore, the project team considers that this Year 2 Project Report documents the midpoint of our project. We describe below our originally proposed Tasks and modifications to those tasks based on changing needs and realities.

Citation

Anthony Aufdenkampe, Jeff Horsburgh, Kerstin Lehnert, David Lubinski, Emilio Mayorga and Ilya Zaslavski (2014): Year 2 Project Report for EAR-1332257: Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories (CZOData). NSF Annual Project Report.