RCN: RATES: Building a Spatial and Temporal Framework for Understanding Surface Earth Processes

RCN：速率：构建理解地球表面过程的时空框架

• 批准号: 1659006
• 负责人: Lisa Park Boush
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; RATES; Building; Spatial; Temporal

This project will establish a Research Coordination Network (RCN) "EarthRates: Linking Scales Across the Sedimentary Crust" that will provide the framework and opportunity to engage communities and forge new collaborations in order to foster transdisciplinary research on Earth's sedimentary crust. This RCN will bring together investigators from NSF-sponsored entities such as the Paleobiology Database, Neotoma, Macrostrat, EarthTime, EarthChem, Earth-Life Transitions, the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office, and Flyover Country to strategize, leverage and build community collaborative efforts to address major grand challenges in Earth system science. These include: 1) how have the oceans, the Earth's sedimentary crust, carbon sinks and soils, and life itself evolved together, and what does this tell us about the future trajectory of the integrated Earth-life system? and 2) what are the ranges of ecosystem response, modes of vulnerability, and resilience to changes in Earth-system states? By bringing investigators and leaders from these groups together and building stronger partnerships, we will move towards the goal of developing a fully integrated four-dimensional digital Earth to fully understand Earth's dynamic system evolution.EarthRates RCN will build on recent activities of the communities and facilitate efforts to bring these groups together to 1) hold workshops, 2) develop working groups, 3) provide training opportunities to build a future workforce, 4) launch data mobilization campaigns, 5) strengthen community ties, 6) discover new partners and opportunities, 7) promote with social media and strong web presence (such as maintaining the development of a 'Broader Impacts Clearinghouse', extending outreach opportunities with Flyover Country mobile app, and increasing efforts to recruit, retain, and advance members of underrepresented groups), and 8) integrate efforts to build research capacity in the sedimentary crust by exposing and visualizing data from EarthRate's community data repositories. This project will create a stronger scientific infrastructure, leveraging funds already spent by NSF to further build the community that is critical to understanding Earth's past and future states.

该项目将建立一个研究协调网络（RCN）“地球速率：连接沉积地壳的尺度”，该网络将为社区参与和建立新的合作提供框架和机会，以促进对地球沉积地壳的跨学科研究。该 RCN 将汇集来自 NSF 赞助实体（例如古生物学数据库、Neotoma、Macrostrat、EarthTime、EarthChem、地球生命转变、大陆科学钻探协调办公室和 Flyover Country）的研究人员，制定战略、利用和建立社区协作努力，以解决地球系统科学中的重大挑战。 其中包括：1）海洋、地球沉积地壳、碳汇和土壤以及生命本身是如何一起进化的，这告诉我们地球生命综合系统的未来轨迹是什么？ 2）生态系统响应范围、脆弱性模式以及对地球系统状态变化的恢复力是什么？通过将这些团体的研究人员和领导者聚集在一起并建立更牢固的伙伴关系，我们将朝着开发完全集成的四维数字地球的目标迈进，以充分了解地球的动态系统演化。EarthRates RCN 将建立在社区最近的活动的基础上，并促进努力将这些群体聚集在一起，以 1) 举办研讨会，2) 建立工作组，3) 提供培训机会以培养未来的劳动力，4) 发起数据动员活动，5) 加强社区联系，6) 发现新的合作伙伴和机会，7) 利用社交媒体和强大的网络影响力进行宣传（例如维持“更广泛影响信息交换所”的发展，利用 Flyover Country 移动应用程序扩大外展机会，以及加大力度招募、留住和提拔代表性不足群体的成员）和 8) 通过公开和可视化来自 EarthRate 社区数据存储库的数据，整合沉积地壳研究能力建设的努力。该项目将创建更强大的科学基础设施，利用 NSF 已支出的资金进一步建立对了解地球过去和未来状态至关重要的社区。