SAVI: Crossing the Boundaries of Critical Zone Science with a Virtual Institute

SAVI：通过虚拟研究所跨越关键区域科学的界限

• 批准号: 1445246
• 负责人: Timothy White
• 金额: $ 124.79万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445246&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAVI; Crossing; Boundaries; Critical; Zone

An anticipated increase in population to more than 8 billion, a 50% increase in demand for food and fuel, and a 30% increase in demand for clean water will occur in the next 2 decades. To enable this, humanity must increase our understanding of the physical, biological and chemical processes occurring in the Critical Zone (CZ) that nurture human society globally. The CZ is Earth's surface layer between the top of the vegetation canopy and the base of groundwater. Such understanding will help society to better adapt to and manage the effects associated with ongoing land-use and climate change. This proposal proposes to create an international Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) SAVI as an integrating activity for Earth surface geosciences research worldwide.The aim of this proposal is to address important and outstanding charges that challenge the U.S. CZO program: How can individual sites articulate and answer network-wide questions? How can the diverse CZOs make some measurements in a coordinated fashion at all CZOs? Proponents hypothesize that development of such measurements and questions requires focused leadership and a concerted effort that entails 5 years of workshops, graduate and postgraduate student mentoring, and targeted research projects that demand common measurements. They have proposed an approach to the development of international cross-CZO science, and to establish a new cadre of truly interdisciplinary and international scientists through graduate student and postdoctoral training. This CZO SAVI will establish a framework to address major challenges that face humanity with respect to habitability of the CZ. This project will engage U.S. and international partners from diverse networks by: 1) learning to explore and measure the essential variables underpinning models of the CZ; and, 2) supporting a U.S. group of junior scientists to become the next-generation of international scholars of the CZ. In short, the project seeks to implement a cross cutting and coupled network of junior researchers working closely with the senior CZO leaders to promote understanding of the cross-disciplinary and coupled nature of CZ processes. This is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is co-funded by NSF's Geosciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Directorate and the Office of International and Integrative Activities.

预计人口将增加到超过80亿，食物和燃料的需求增加了50％，对清洁水的需求增加了30％。为了实现这一目标，人类必须提高我们对全球培育人类社会的关键区域（CZ）中发生的物理，生物和化学过程的理解。 CZ是植物冠层顶部和地下水底之间的地球表面层。 这种理解将帮助社会更好地适应与持续的土地利用和气候变化相关的影响。该提案建议创建一个国际关键区观测站（CZO）萨维，作为全球地球表面地球科学研究的整合活动。该提案的目的是解决挑战美国CZO计划的重要和杰出的指控：各个站点如何表达和回答网络范围的问题？各种各样的轮子如何在所有轮廓上以协调的方式进行一些测量？支持者假设发展此类测量和问题需要集中领导和一致的努力，这需要花费5年的研讨会，研究生和研究生指导，并针对需要共同测量的研究项目。他们提出了一种发展国际跨核科学的方法，并通过研究生和博士后培训来建立真正的跨学科和国际科学家的新干部。这款CZO SAVI将建立一个框架，以应对CZ的可居住性面临人类面临的重大挑战。该项目将通过以下方式与来自不同网络的美国和国际合作伙伴联系：1）学习探索和衡量CZ基础模型的基本变量； 2）支持美国一群初级科学家成为CZ国际学者的下一代。简而言之，该项目旨在实施与高级CZO领导者紧密合作的初级研究人员的交叉切割和耦合网络，以促进对CZ过程的跨学科和耦合性质的理解。 这被指定为虚拟机构（SAVI）奖的一项科学，并由NSF的地球科学局，生物科学局和国际和综合活动办公室共同资助。

项目成果

Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth

• DOI: 10.5194/esurf-5-841-2017
• 发表时间: 2017-12-18
• 期刊: EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Brantley, Susan L.;McDowell, William H.;Gaillardet, Jerome
• 通讯作者: Gaillardet, Jerome

Reviews and syntheses: on the roles trees play in building and plumbing the critical zone

• DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-5115-2017
• 发表时间: 2017-11-17
• 期刊: BIOGEOSCIENCES
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Brantley, Susan L.;Eissenstat, David M.;Weathers, Kathleen C.
• 通讯作者: Weathers, Kathleen C.

An International Initiative for Science in the Critical Zone

关键区域科学国际倡议

• DOI: 10.1029/2015eo031111
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Eos
• 作者: Brantley, Susan;Dietrich, William;Banwart, Steve
• 通讯作者: Banwart, Steve