Coordinating Office for Research on the Sedimentary Crust, Deep-Time and the Earth-Life System

沉积地壳、深层时间和地球生命系统研究协调办公室

• 批准号: 1206274
• 负责人: Lisa Park Boush
• 金额: $ 81.32万
• 依托单位: The Geological Society of America, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1206274&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coordinating; Office; Research; Sedimentary; Crust

This grant supports a sedimentary geology, deep-time, and Earth-life system science community coordinating Office (STEPPE, Sedimentary geology, Time, Environment, Paleontology, Paleoclimate, and Energy) to facilitate collaboration and communication among existing and new initiatives, build capacity, and promote research into the deep-time record of Earth processes. The Geological Society of America (GSA), the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and the Paleontological Society (PS) will provide financial and in-kind support to the office.Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts: To predict the boundaries for human life on this planet--those imposed by climate change, energy, water issues, and our impact on the biosphere--we must have an integrated, deep-time perspective, or our vision will be incomplete, and our ability to make predictions about natural and human-made events and outcomes will be limited. Single sub-disciplines or even whole disciplines cannot provide the breadth and depth of information needed to address real-world issues. All sedimentary crust research groups examine different parts of a larger research problem, and current initiatives reflect different perspectives and/or emphases for sedimentary-crust research, especially in the deep past. It is clear that broad segments of the community is working toward an integrated approach, but lack a platform to coordinate and integrate these efforts. The 2011 National Research Council report on Understanding Earth's Deep Past, states that it is essential to make "A transition from single researcher or small group research efforts to a much broader-based interdisciplinary collaboration of observation-based scientists with climate modelers for team-based studies of important paleoclimate events," and this requires coordination. The STEPPE office will provide that platform and that coordination. The STEPPE office will help facilitate the EarthCube vision for geoscience cyberinfrastructure by bringing together various relevant geoinformatics efforts, and work to ensure that other cyberinfrastructure needs are articulated and coordinated. In addition, the STEPPE office will work with the community and with education partners to develop state-of-the-art education and outreach programs involving K-12, decision makers, and the general public through formal and informal educational activities. The STEPPE office will enhance communication between the research community and State, Federal and international agencies and organizations, including industry, in order to build capacity and voice community perspectives. The office will ensure that the independence and importance of existing and planned community initiatives is maintained, and also enhanced through this group effort. The office will promote individual initiatives and coordinate efforts among them. Better communication, coordination and collaboration will help to develop more effective research strategies for the entire community and help meet goals of the 2009 NSF GeoVision Report. The office will help the community develop new strategies and tools for understanding Earth-environment-life relationships with greater sophistication, and for application to our understanding of Earth-system processes.

该赠款支持沉积地质，深层和地球生活系统科学社区协调办公室（Steppe，沉积地质，时间，环境，古生物学，古生物学，古气候和能源），以促进现有和新的计划之间的协作和交流，建立能力，并促进地球过程的深度记录。美国地质学会（GSA），沉积地质学学会（SEPM）和古生物学学会（PS）将为办公室提供财务和实物的支持。智能优点和更广泛的影响：预测这个星球对人类生活的边界 - 通过气候变化，能源，水的影响，我们对环境的影响，我们对生物的影响，或者我们对生物的影响，或者我们对生活的影响，或者我们的影响 - 或我们的重新范围，或者我们对生物的影响，或者我们对生物的影响，或者我们的境地，或者我们的境地，或者我们对生活的影响，或者我们的生命范围内，或不完整，我们对自然和人为事件和结果进行预测的能力将受到限制。单个子学科甚至整个学科无法提供解决现实世界问题所需的信息的广度和深度。所有沉积地壳研究小组都研究了更大的研究问题的不同部分，当前的举措反映了沉积物壳研究的不同观点和/或重点，尤其是在过去的过去。显然，社区的广泛部分正在努力迈向综合方法，但缺乏协调和整合这些努力的平台。 2011年国家研究委员会关于了解地球深层过去的报告指出，必须“从单一的研究人员或小组研究工作进行过渡到基于观察的科学家与气候建模者的基于观测的科学家的基于团队的重要古气候事件的研究的更广泛的跨学科合作”，这需要协调。草原办公室将提供该平台和该协调。草原办公室将通过汇总各种相关的地球信息学工作，并努力确保其他Cyber​​infrastructure的需求可以阐明和协调，从而帮助促进地球地球科学网络基础设施的愿景。此外，草原办公室将与社区和教育合作伙伴合作，通过正式和非正式的教育活动开发涉及K-12，决策者和公众的最先进的教育和外展计划。草原办公室将加强研究界与包括行业在内的州，联邦和国际机构和组织之间的沟通，以建立能力和语音社区的观点。该办公室将确保维护现有和计划中的社区计划的独立性和重要性，并通过这一小组努力得到增强。该办公室将促进个人倡议并协调他们之间的努力。更好的沟通，协调和协作将有助于为整个社区制定更有效的研究策略，并有助于满足2009年NSF Geovision报告的目标。该办公室将帮助社区制定新的战略和工具，以了解地球环境生活的关系，并以更高的成熟程度，并应用我们对地球系统过程的理解。