Meeting of Experts: Discussion of National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Workshop Report on "Future Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs in the Geosciences"

专家会议：国家自然科学基金部地球科学部“地球科学中未来地震与大地测量设施需求”研讨会报告讨论

• 批准号: 1550840
• 负责人: Elizabeth Eide
• 金额: $ 4.23万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 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 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550840&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Experts; Discussion; National; Science

Non-technical SummaryThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the Academies) is convening an ad hoc "meeting of experts" to discuss and provide individual, expert opinions on a National Science Foundation (NSF) report from a recent workshop supported by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences (EAR). The workshop gathered input from numerous Earth scientists on future research and facility needs for advancing the understanding of Earth processes that generate movement of Earth's tectonic plates, earthquakes, gravity, tidal motions, the motion of ice sheets, and other phenomena. Two large multi-user facilities supported by NSF currently provide instrumentation, networks, data, and educational materials for this kind of deep-earth research. As the multi-year operational agreements for these facilities will expire in 2018, NSF is preparing to recompete one or more Cooperative Agreement(s) to support management and operation of future facilities with these kinds of capabilities. Continuing to advance research on Earth processes through multi-user access to a range of technologies, data, and networks will enhance opportunities for scientific collaboration among a broad research community, increase understanding of changes in the behavior of the Earth, and help to inform decision making regarding preparation for and adaptation to these changes. Additional, independent opinions from the experts convened by the Academies is helping to strengthen the scientific framework for the recompetition of these facilities and thus support key research on deep-earth processes, their results and impacts. Technical DescriptionThe Division of Earth Sciences in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) currently supports two large multi-user facilities, the Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) Facility and the Seismological Facilities for Advancement of Geosciences and EarthScope (SAGE), that provide geodetic, seismic, and geophysical instrumentation, data and data management, network operations, education, and workforce training to a broad research community. GAGE and SAGE operate global and regional networks of continuously operating geodetic, seismic, and related geophysical instrumentation; portable seismic, geodetic, and related geophysical instrumentation; systems for archiving, managing, and distributing geophysical data; they also develop education and outreach materials for various audiences. NSF is preparing to recompete Cooperative Agreement(s) for these kinds of research facilities and recently funded a workshop to identify key scientific questions and facility needs for future seismic and geodetic research. This project is bringing together an ad hoc "meeting of experts" with backgrounds in solid Earth science and particular expertise in seismology, geodesy, geodynamics, active tectonics, structural geology, and natural hazards to discuss and provide individual, expert opinions on the NSF-generated report from that workshop. The experts are focusing particularly upon science and research questions posed by the community at the workshop; the types of seismic and geodetic facilities that are essential to support this research; and education, outreach, training, and workforce development opportunities provided by such research and the associated facilities.

非技术摘要美国国家科学，工程和医学学院（学院）正在召集一家临时“专家会议”，以讨论并提供有关国家科学基金会（NSF）的个人，专家意见（NSF），该报告最近由NSF地球科学部（EAR）支持的最近的研讨会。 该研讨会收集了来自众多地球科学家的未来研究和设施需求的意见，以促进对地球过程的理解，从而产生地球构造板，地震，重力，潮汐动作，冰盖运动和其他现象。 NSF支持的两个大型多用户设施目前为这类深入研究提供了仪器，网络，数据和教育材料。 由于这些设施的多年运营协议将于2018年到期，NSF正准备重新编写一项或多项合作协议，以支持这些功能的管理和运营。 继续通过多用户访问一系列技术，数据和网络来推进对地球过程的研究，这将增强在广泛的研究社区之间进行科学合作的机会，增进对地球行为变化的理解，并有助于为有关准备和适应这些变化的决策提供信息。 学院召集的专家的其他独立意见正在帮助加强对这些设施的重新编写的科学框架，从而支持对深度过程，结果和影响的关键研究。 Technical DescriptionThe Division of Earth Sciences in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) currently supports two large multi-user facilities, the Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) Facility and the Seismological Facilities for Advancement of Geosciences and EarthScope (SAGE), that provide geodetic, seismic, and geophysical instrumentation, data and data management, network operations, education, and向广泛的研究社区进行劳动力培训。 量规和鼠尾草运营着连续运行的大地测量，地震和相关地球物理仪器的全球和区域网络；便携式地震，大地和相关的地球物理仪器；归档，管理和分发地球物理数据的系统；他们还为各种受众开发教育和外展材料。 NSF正在准备为这些研究设施重新编写合作协议，并最近资助了一个研讨会，以确定对未来地震和地球研究的关键科学问题和设施的需求。 该项目正在汇集一个临时的“专家会议”，并具有固体地球科学的背景以及地震学，地震学，地球动力学，积极的构造，结构地质学和自然危害，以讨论该研讨会的NSF生成的报告，以讨论并提供个人的专家意见。专家特别关注社区在研讨会上提出的科学和研究问题。支持这项研究至关重要的地震和地震设施的类型；以及此类研究和相关设施提供的教育，外展，培训和劳动力发展机会。