EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Advancing biogeoscience community standards and cyberinfrastructure via Critical Zone domain engagement in synthesis science

EarthCube IA：协作提案：通过参与综合科学的关键区域领域推进生物地球科学社区标准和网络基础设施

• 批准号: 1540938
• 负责人: Aaron Packman
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540938&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; IA; Collaborative; Proposal; Advancing

The Critical Zone (CZ) is the Earth's permeable near-surface layer from the atmosphere at the vegetation's canopy to the lower boundary of actively circulating groundwaters. There has been a recent movement in the US Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program to promote cross-CZO collaborations, with a major emphasis on biogeochemistry and related microbial ecology research. The project enable the CZ community to use software via training workshops, and better use CZ biogeochemistry and microbial ecology data. These objectives will be accomplished through a set of virtual and in-person workshops where CZ scientists have the opportunity to learn how to use the new cyberinfrastructure products, and use them to synthesize important biogeosciences and microbial ecology data from across numerous CZ sites. This effort will concurrently support the development of community-led standards for data collection and sharing. Direct involvement of software development teams as IA project personnel and collaborators will facilitate the training of members of the CZ community to use newly developed software. CZ scientists will then use these tools in a set of real-life use cases, in the form of synthesis of existing CZO data and analysis of collaboratively designed cross-CZO biogeochemical and metagenomic sample collection and analysis and ancillary measurements. This effort will not only train CZ scientists to use newly emerging EC CI tools, but also solicit community input on software improvements and identify remaining gaps and needs for further EarthCube CI development.This project lays the groundwork for the whole-earth analysis and simulation capability envisioned through EarthCube, by bringing critical zone scientists together with hands-on training to test available cyberinfrastructure tools with comprehensive multiparameter datasets spanning a wide range of scales. The project will further improve access to the products of critical zone research by promoting the sharing, standardization, synthesis and analysis of biogeochemical and metagenomic data via EarthCube cyberinfrastructure, enabling a broader array of geosciences communities to shape future EarthCube activities and outcomes. This effort will support synthesis of broad swaths of data currently being collected at critical zone sites in the US and worldwide, as well as identify and fill key data gaps. The project will answer key biogeochemistry and microbial ecology questions, such as 1) measuring and modeling the fate of phosphorus during soil formation, and the relative role of bedrock vs. dust inputs to ecosystem phosphorus across diverse systems, and 2) evaluating nutrient availability and its impacts on microbial communities, growth rates and functions, across diverse systems. This project will also facilitate integrative scientific applications using critical zone data. The project will engender broad scientific dissemination of key EarthCube and Critical Zone Observatory products through targeted scientific outreach activities and engagement of diverse types of scientists, including a unique interaction between the computational science and geoscience communities. Key findings will be communicated through collaborative research and synthesis papers and presentations. This project will contribute extensive capacity-building in early-career researchers through targeted workshop participation. Finally, project findings and products will be used to inform future EarthCube development through the activity of the PIs and collaborators in the EarthCube Science Committee and Technology and Architecture Committee, as well as through the broader engagement of critical zone scientists into earthcube activities.

临界区域（CZ）是地球可渗透的近地面层，从植被冠层的大气层到主动循环地下水的下边界。最近，美国关键区观测站（CZO）计划促进跨CZO合作，重点是生物地球化学和相关微生物生态学研究。该项目使CZ社区能够通过培训研讨会使用软件，并更好地使用CZ生物地球化学和微生物生态学数据。这些目标将通过一系列虚拟和面对面的研讨会来实现，CZ科学家有机会学习如何使用新的Cyber​​infrastructure产品，并使用它们来合成来自众多CZ网站的重要生物盖科学和微生物生态数据。这项工作将同时支持建立社区主导的数据收集和共享标准。作为IA项目人员和合作者，软件开发团队的直接参与将促进CZ社区成员使用新开发的软件的培训。然后，CZ科学家将以现有的CZO数据的形式在一组现实生活中使用这些工具，并分析合作设计的跨CZO生物地球化学和元基因组样品收集和分析以及辅助测量。这项努力不仅将训练CZ科学家使用新出现的EC CI工具，而且还将征求社区对软件改进的投入，并确定剩余的空白和需求，以进一步的地球立方体CI开发。该项目为整个磨难分析和模拟能力构成了领域，并通过将关键区域的范围与跨越的替换工具一起构建，以实现地球范围的范围，以实现范围，以实现跨越的范围。秤。该项目将通过促进通过EarthCube Cyber​​infrstructure促进生物地球化学和元基因组数据的共享，标准化，合成和分析，进一步改善关键区研究的产品的访问，从而实现了更广泛的地球科学社区，以塑造未来的EarterCube活动和抗效效期。这项工作将支持当前在美国和全球关键区域网站收集的广泛数据的综合，并识别和填补关键数据差距。该项目将回答关键的生物地球化学和微生物生态学问题，例如1）测量和建模土壤形成过程中磷的命运，以及基岩与粉尘投入到对生态系统磷的相对作用，以及2）2）评估养分及其对微生物社区的影响及其对微生物社区的影响及其对微生物社区的影响。该项目还将使用关键区域数据促进综合科学应用。该项目将通过有针对性的科学外展活动和各种科学家的参与，包括计算科学与地球科学群落之间的独特互动，从而引发对关键Earthcube和关键区天文台产品的广泛科学传播。关键发现将通过协作研究和综合论文和演示来传达。该项目将通过有针对性的研讨会参与为早期研究人员提供广泛的能力建设。最后，通过PIS和EarthCube科学委员会，技术与建筑委员会的合作者以及通过更广泛的关键区科学家参与EarthCube活动的活动，将使用项目发现和产品来为未来的EarthCube开发提供信息。