Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on Critical Transitions In History Of Life; Denver, Colorado; October 5-14 2007

研讨会：生命史关键转变的中美合作研究；

• 批准号: 0742446
• 负责人: Kirk Johnson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Denver Museum of Nature and Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0742446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Sino; US; Collaborative; Research

Chinese and American fossil sites, collections, and scientists are among the best in the world. Important American paleontological sites have been known for more than a century and have led to major reference collections in national and regional museums across the United States. The paleontological exploration of China has just begun in the last decade and spectacular finds are being made including the feathered dinosaur sites of Laoning Province and the Cambrian explosion faunas of Yunnan Province. The prospects of major new discoveries being made are great. There are many intervals of Earth history where American and Chinese paleontological resources complement one another and demand to be studied in a coordinated fashion in order to maximize results. Long term collaboration between American and Chinese paleontologists has focused on several levels where life experienced some critical transitions. These critical transitions have disproportionately shaped the history of earth and the evolution of its diverse biota. Examples include the Ordovician radiation of marine animals, the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction and subsequent biotic recovery, and the Cenozoic uplift of the Tibetan plateau and its climatic and evolutionary impact. Whereas major advances in our understanding of these critical transitions have come in the last fifteen years out of largely independent discoveries and research programs in China and the United States, there is potential for even greater progress in our understanding of these critical transitions through scientific collaboration. Workshops on this topic have been previously held in November of 2005 in Washington DC and June of 2006 in Beijing China supported respectively by NSF-US and NSF-China). PIs are proposing a third workshop to be held in Denver to continue joint discussions and to develop a concrete plan for collaborative paleontological and geological research on three critical transitions: The Ordovician transition of marine faunas, The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction and subsequent recovery, and the Cenozoic uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and its climatic and evolutionary impact. The proposed workshop has broad implications for enhancing our general understanding of environmental controls on the evolution of life by formalizing a collaborative program between the US and Chinese Earth Sciences community focused on the critical transitions. This collaboration will involve paleontologists, geochronologists, isotope and organic geochemists, and sedimentologists, and will forge the development and use of large databases such as the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) and stimulate integrated multidisciplinary research between the US and Chinese scientists. These activities will create a network of Chinese and American scientists with common goals that will facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information. The workshop coordinators will strive to create opportunities for junior scientists and students to be involved in international collaborations.

中国和美国的化石场所，收藏品和科学家是世界上最好的。 重要的美国古生物学遗址已有一个多世纪的历史，并导致了美国国家和地区博物馆的主要参考收藏。 中国的古生物学探索始于过去十年，并进行了壮观的发现，包括Laoning Province的羽毛状恐龙遗址和云南省的Cambrian爆炸动物区系。 重大新发现的前景很棒。 地球历史上有许多间隔，美国和中国的古生物学资源相互补充，并要求以协调的方式进行研究以最大程度地提高结果。 美国和中国古生物学家之间的长期合作专注于生活经历了一些关键过渡的多个层次。 这些关键过渡构成了地球历史及其多样的生物群的发展。例子包括海洋动物的奥陶纪辐射，白垩纪 - 前质量灭绝和随后的生物恢复，以及藏族高原的新生代隆起及其气候和进化影响。尽管我们对这些关键过渡的理解的重大进展是在过去的十五年中，在中国和美国的主要独立发现和研究计划中，我们通过科学协作对这些关键转变的理解有可能取得更大的进步。 关于该主题的讲习班先前曾于2005年11月在华盛顿特区和2006年6月在北京中国举行，分别由NSF-US和NSF-CHINA支持）。 PIs are proposing a third workshop to be held in Denver to continue joint discussions and to develop a concrete plan for collaborative paleontological and geological research on three critical transitions: The Ordovician transition of marine faunas, The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction and subsequent recovery, and the Cenozoic uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and its climatic and evolutionary impact.拟议的研讨会具有广泛的含义，可以通过正式地在美国和中国地球科学社区之间进行协作计划，从而增强我们对环境对生活进化的一般理解，专注于关键过渡。这项合作将涉及古生物学家，地球文学家，同位素和有机地球化学家以及沉积学家，并将建立大型数据库（例如古生物学数据库（PBDB））的开发和使用，并刺激美国和中国科学家之间综合的多学科研究。这些活动将建立一个具有共同目标的中国和美国科学家网络，以促进知识和信息的共享。研讨会协调员将努力为初级科学家和学生创造机会参与国际合作。