RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Developing and Deploying SKOPE--A resource for Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments

RIDIR：协作研究：开发和部署 SKOPE——综合过去环境知识的资源

• 批准号: 1637189
• 负责人: Keith Kintigh
• 金额: $ 20.08万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637189&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RIDIR; Collaborative; Research; Developing; Deploying

This project will develop SKOPE (Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments), a freely available Web site that will provide easy access to state-of-the-art measurements and reconstructions of long-term environmental data, such as rainfall, temperature, plant and animal distributions, streamflow, and soils. Given a time period and a location, it will display the data graphically and will permit users to download the original high-resolution environmental data. By enabling scholars to easily discover, explore, visualize, and synthesize knowledge of environmental stability and change over centuries or millennia, SKOPE will empower reproducible research on the effects of climatic variation on human societies and the substantial impacts of humans on ancient and modern environments. It will also facilitate ongoing improvement of paleoenvironmental reconstructions. SKOPE will transform vast amounts of prior data collection, modeling, and research into usable environmental knowledge, enhancing the infrastructure of scientific research in such diverse disciplines as agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, ecology, economics, geography, political science, sociology, and sustainability. SKOPE will also make available publicly funded paleoenvironmental data and models to users in industry and government. For example, planners will be able to use SKOPE?s long-term environmental reconstructions to investigate vulnerabilities in infrastructure not revealed by historical experience (for example, streamflow or rainfall regimes outside the ranges of those documented historically). Students will have free access to high-quality environmental scenarios in which to situate their studies. Members of the general public will be able to see how ancient environments differed from those of today. Expanding the community able to obtain and use paleoenvironmental information will increase public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology.Recent research has demonstrated that investigations of contemporary societal problems can benefit from the use of long-term environmental data and from comparisons with cases in which the interactions of human societies with their environments is well-documented over centuries. By providing easy access to time- and place-specific long-term environmental data, this project seeks to facilitate those efforts. SKOPE addresses two critical challenges to contemporary science: increasing access to publicly funded research; and ensuring that scientific results are transparent and reproducible. SKOPE will enable users to easily discover, download, visualize, and explore many sources of paleoenvironmental data that resulted from publicly funded research that are now difficult (at best) to find and use. SKOPE will also provide robust support for reproducible scientific research. Datasets provided by SKOPE will be accompanied by a systematic, comprehensible record of their origin and computational derivation, giving researchers an unprecedented ability to understand how the data were obtained.

该项目将开发Skope（综合过去环境的知识），这是一个免费可用的网站，可轻松访问最先进的测量和重建长期环境数据，例如降雨，温度，植物和动物分布，水流和土壤。给定时间段和位置，它将以图形方式显示数据，并允许用户下载原始的高分辨率环境数据。通过使学者能够轻松发现，探索，可视化和综合数百年来或数千年的环境稳定性和变化的知识，Skope将增强对气候变化对人类社会的影响以及人类对古代环境的实质影响的可重现研究。它还将促进古环境重建的持续改进。 Skope将把大量的先前数据收集，建模和研究转化为可用的环境知识，增强科学研究的基础设施，例如，人类学，考古学，考古学，生态学，经济学，地理，政治，社会学，社会学和可持续性等多样性学科。 Skope还将向行业和政府的用户提供公开资助的古环境数据和模型。例如，计划者将能够使用Skope的长期环境重建来调查历史经验未揭示的基础设施中的漏洞（例如，在历史上记录的范围之外的水流或降雨制度）。学生将可以免费使用高质量的环境方案来置于学业的位置。公众将能够看到古老的环境与当今的环境有何不同。扩大社区能够获取和使用古环境信息将提高公共科学素养和与科学技术的公众参与。端研究表明，对当代社会问题的调查可以从使用长期环境数据以及与人类社会与环境的互动中的相互作用的案例中受益的研究可以受益。通过轻松访问特定时间和地点的长期环境数据，该项目旨在促进这些努力。 Skope解决了当代科学的两个关键挑战：增加获得公共资助的研究的机会；并确保科学结果是透明且可再现的。 Skope将使用户能够轻松地发现，下载，可视化和探索许多古环境数据来源，这些数据是由公共资助的研究产生的，这些研究现在很难（充其量）查找和使用。 Skope还将为可重复的科学研究提供强有力的支持。 Skope提供的数据集将伴随着其起源和计算推导的系统，可理解的记录，从而使研究人员具有前所未有的能力，可以理解如何获得数据。

项目成果

Paleodata for and from archaeology

考古学的古数据

• DOI: 10.22498/pages.26.2.68
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Past Global Change Magazine
• 作者: Kohler, Timothy A;Buckland, PI;Kintigh, KW;Bocinsky, RK;Brin, A;Gillreath-Brown, A;Ludäscher, B;McPhillips, TM;Opitz, R;Terstriep, J
• 通讯作者: Terstriep, J