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

合作研究：EarthChem

基本信息

批准号：
1948838
负责人：
Gokce Ustunisik
金额：
$ 11.95万
依托单位：
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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 2023-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948838&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research EarthChem &amp SESAR

项目摘要

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、化石、沉积物、冰、河水或海水在内的地质材料样本，并在实验室中分析这些样本以测量其化学和物理特性来收集大量且多样化的数据。这些分析可以帮助科学家了解过去、现在甚至未来地球系统的自然过程，并形成新想法、假设和发现的基础。因此，保存数据并使其易于在线查找和访问非常重要。有用的格式并附有相关信息其他研究人员、决策者、教师和公众将继续运行两个数据系统：SESAR（地球样本登记系统）和 EarthChem，这两个系统提供对作为地球和环境一部分收集的样本信息的在线开放访问。 EarthChem 管理和管理研究人员提供的数百个地球化学数据集，并维护包含超过 100 万个样本的超过 3000 万个地球化学测量数据的数据库。这些数据可供任何有兴趣将其用于任何目的的人（教育工作者、学生、研究人员、行业团体、公众）使用，特别是 STEM 领域的研究和教育使样本可以在线发现和访问。允许更高效和有效地获取在地球、环境和行星科学的广泛多样性中发挥核心作用的样本收集，并可能为关键决策、法律和政策提供信息，并且 EarthChem 和 SESAR 在未来科学之间建立重要的国家和国际联系。数据提供者和在该项目的两年内，EarthChem 和 SESAR 将为地球化学、岩石学和地球样本社区提供持续的数据管理服务，并且 EarthChem 还将进行必要的开发以实现现代化和优化。 EarthChem 将重组和重新设计其系统，以确保其数据的可用性。新的发展将通过改进用于发现、访问、可视化和分析的人类和机器可读界面来支持下一代数据驱动的研究模式。 EarthChem 数据系统中的内容。机器学习和其他数据科学方法的应用将有助于从数据集合中提取新知识。此外，SESAR 的服务将转向新的领域。 ,用于样本注册的独立、多学科基础设施，是与生物学、基因组学和考古学领域的网络基础设施提供商的一项新兴合作项目。该项目由地球科学部的地理信息学以及岩石学和地球化学项目联合资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。