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（CZ）是地球可渗透的近地表层，从植被冠层的大气到活跃循环的地下水的下边界。美国关键区域天文台 (CZO) 计划最近发起了一项旨在促进跨 CZO 合作的运动，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，并更好地利用 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现场研讨会来实现，在这些研讨会上，CZ 科学家有机会学习如何使用新的网络基础设施产品，并利用它们来综合来自多个 CZ 站点的重要生物地球科学和微生物生态学数据。这项工作将同时支持社区主导的数据收集和共享标准的制定。软件开发团队作为 IA 项目人员和合作者的直接参与将有助于培训 CZ 社区成员使用新开发的软件。然后，CZ 科学家将在一组现实用例中使用这些工具，以综合现有 CZO 数据和分析协作设计的跨 CZO 生物地球化学和宏基因组样本收集和分析以及辅助测量的形式。这项工作不仅将培训 CZ 科学家使用新兴的 EC CI 工具，还将征求社区对软件改进的意见，并确定进一步开发 EarthCube CI 的剩余差距和需求。该项目为全地球分析和模拟能力奠定了基础通过 EarthCube 设想，通过将关键区域的科学家聚集在一起进行实践培训，利用跨越各种尺度的综合多参数数据集来测试可用的网络基础设施工具。该项目将通过 EarthCube 网络基础设施促进生物地球化学和宏基因组数据的共享、标准化、综合和分析，进一步改善关键区域研究产品的获取，使更广泛的地球科学界能够塑造未来的 EarthCube 活动和成果。这项工作将支持综合目前在美国和世界各地关键区域站点收集的大量数据，并确定和填补关键数据空白。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）测量和模拟土壤形成过程中磷的命运，以及基岩与灰尘输入对不同系统中生态系统磷的相对作用，以及2）评估养分可用性和它对不同系统的微生物群落、生长速度和功能的影响。该项目还将促进使用关键区域数据的综合科学应用。该项目将通过有针对性的科学推广活动和不同类型科学家的参与，包括计算科学和地球科学界之间的独特互动，对地球立方和关键区域天文台的关键产品进行广泛的科学传播。主要发现将通过合作研究、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，为早期职业研究人员提供广泛的能力建设。最后，项目成果和产品将通过 EarthCube 科学委员会和技术与架构委员会的 PI 和合作者的活动，以及通过关键区域科学家更广泛地参与 EarthCube 活动，为未来 EarthCube 的开发提供信息。