The Western Tri-state Consortium has been awarded a new NSF Track 2 Cyberinfrastructure Improvement Grant. NM EPSCoR will receive $2 million in funding across 3 years for increasing connectivity and bandwidth in the State of NM, enhancing data and model interoperability for collaborative projects on climate change research, and utilizing CI to integrate research with education.
The full proposal: "Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure Development for the Western Consortium of Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico" and the 2-page project summary are available as pdfs.
The EPSCoR states of New Mexico, Idaho and Nevada form the EPSCoR Western Tri-State Consortium. Program Directors, scientists and educators from the three states met in New Mexico, November, 2008 and Idaho, December, 2009, to create a coordinated cyberinfrastructure research and development plan that serves both as a platform for future climate change research collaborations and the foundation for the recently submitted tri-state EPSCoR Track 2 Cyberinfrastructure proposal. The figure below summarizes the Consortium’s state-specific EPSCoR RII cyberinfrastructure and human capacity investments, long term Consortium-based research goals, and Track 1 climate change research foci.
