Collaborative Research: EarthChem & SESAR - Data Infrastructure for Geochemistry and Earth Science Samples Communities

合作研究：EarthChem

• 批准号: 1948813
• 负责人: James Walker
• 金额: $ 12.26万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EarthChem; & SESAR

Earth scientists gather a vast amount and diversity of data by collecting specimens of geological materials including rocks, minerals, fossils, sediments, ice, river water or seawater, and analyzing these samples in the laboratory to measure their chemical and physical properties. The data generated by these analyses help scientists understand natural processes of the past, present, and even future Earth systems, and form the basis of new ideas, hypotheses, and discoveries. Thus, it is important that data are preserved and made easily findable and accessible online in a useful format and accompanied by information relevant for other researchers, decision makers, teachers, and the general public. This project continues the operation of two data systems, SESAR (System for Earth Sample Registration) and EarthChem, that provide online open access to information about samples collected as part of Earth and environmental science research, and to data generated when these samples are chemically analyzed in the lab. EarthChem manages and curates hundreds of geochemical datasets contributed by researchers and maintains databases with over 30 million geochemical measurements for more than one million samples. EarthChem will ensure that these data are available to, and consumable by, anyone (educator, student, researcher, industry groups, general public) interested in using them for essentially any purpose, especially research and education in STEM fields. SESAR makes samples discoverable and accessible online, thus allowing more efficient and effective access to sample collections that play a central role in a wide diversity of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences and may inform critical decisions, laws and policies, and future science. EarthChem and SESAR build important national and international connections among data providers and users that facilitate the availability of information and knowledge to society. During the two years of this project, EarthChem and SESAR will provide ongoing data stewardship services for the geochemistry, petrology, and Earth samples communities. EarthChem also will undertake essential developments to modernize and optimize technical implementation, enhance user functions, expand accessible data holdings, and engage with a broad community of users and data facilities to establish best practices and interoperability standards for geochemical data. EarthChem will restructure and reengineer its systems to ensure that its data services scale to evolving community demands and that operations are optimized for efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. New developments will support next generation modes of data-driven research by improving both human and machine-readable interfaces for discovery, access, visualization, and analysis of content in EarthChem data systems. Applications of Machine Learning and other data science approaches will help extract new knowledge from the data collections. SESAR will continue to expand its user community beyond geochemistry and the Earth sciences. In addition, SESAR’s services will move to a new, independent, multi-disciplinary infrastructure for sample registration, an emerging collaborative effort with cyberinfrastructure providers in biology, genomics, and archeology.This project is jointly funded by the Geoinformatics and the Petrology and Geochemistry programs in the Division of Earth Sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

地球科学家通过收集包括岩石，矿物质，化石，沉积物，冰，冰，水或海水的种类来收集大量数据，并在实验室中分析这些样品以测量其化学和物理性质。这些分析产生的数据有助于科学家了解过去，现在甚至未来地球系统的自然过程，并构成了新思想，假设和发现的基础。这一点很重要的是，保留数据并易于以有用的格式找到和可在线访问，并由与其他研究人员，决策者，教师和公众相关的信息提供。该项目延续了两个数据系统（用于地球样品注册系统）和Earthchem的两个数据系统的运行，该系统可在线开放访问有关作为地球和环境科学研究一部分收集的样品的信息，以及在实验室中化学分析这些样品时生成的数据。 Earthchem管理并策划了数百个由研究人员贡献的地球化学数据集，并以超过一百万个样本维护了超过3000万个地球化学测量的数据库。 Earthchem将确保这些数据可用于任何人（教育工作者，学生，研究人员，行业团体，公众）对使用它们的任何目的，尤其是在STEM领域的研究和教育的任何人。 Sesar使样品可以在线发现且可访问，从而可以更有效地访问样品收藏品，这些收藏品在地球，环境和行星科学的广泛多样性中发挥着核心作用，并可能为关键决策，法律和政策以及未​​来科学提供依据。 Earthchem和Sesar在数据提供商和用户之间建立了重要的国家和国际联系，以促进信息和知识的可用性。在该项目的两年中，Earthchem和Sesar将为地球化学，质学和地球样本社区提供持续的数据管理服务。 Earthchem还将采取基本发展，以现代化和优化技术实施，增强用户功能，扩展可访问的数据持有，并与广泛的用户和数据设施社区互动，以建立地球化学数据的最佳实践和互操作性标准。 Earthchem将恢复并重新设计其系统，以确保其数据服务规模扩展到不断发展的社区需求，并为效率，弹性和可持续性提供了优化的运营。新的发展将通过改善人类和机器可读的接口，以发现，访问，可视化和Earthchem数据系统中的内容分析来支持数据驱动的研究模式。机器学习和其他数据科学方法的应用将有助于从数据收集中提取新知识。 Sesar将继续将其用户社区扩展到地球化学和地球科学之外。此外，Sesar的服务将转向一种新的，独立的多学科基础设施，用于样本注册，与生物学，基因组学和考古学方面的网络基础设施提供者的新兴合作努力。该项目由地球统治和地球统计的地球统计和地球统计的地球统计统计统计的统计，该项目共同资助。诚实地通过评估来诚实地使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。