Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research

合作研究：Neotoma 古生态学数据库，一个用于全球变化研究的多代理、国际、社区策划的数据资源

• 批准号: 1948229
• 负责人: Jonathan Nelson
• 金额: $ 19.72万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 2020-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Neotoma; Paleoecology; Database

The recent geological record can offer useful insight into how species adapt (or fail to adapt) to large and rapid environmental change. Understanding past global changes necessitates the assembly and analysis of many individual records, collected by many scientists, from many parts of the world. This project will continue the support and development of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a community data resource in which experts contribute their data, curate these data to meet community standards, and freely access and use the data in research and teaching. Examples of research that uses the Neotoma resource include understanding the causes and consequences of past extinction, assessing the sensitivity of species to large environmental changes that accompanied past ice ages, and measuring how quickly species adapt to past rapid environmental changes. Neotoma’s open data access will also facilitate new forms of education and outreach, by giving students and teachers direct access to research-quality data and empowering them to run their own analyses of past climate and biodiversity dynamics. This will help train the next generation of the scientific workforce, with crossover skills in both geological and data sciences.Neotoma has become a research resource in paleoecology, paleoclimatology, macroecology, biogeography, and environmental archaeology, with rapid growth in data volume, kinds of data supported, and active third-party and externally-supported research projects. Gathering thousands of site-level records into high-quality, global-scale, data networks requires substantial effort. Datasets must be carefully checked, taxon names harmonized, age-depth models updated, and uncertainties quantified. Neotoma will continue to address these challenges through a model of centralized infrastructure and distributed data governance. Priorities for this project are: 1) establishing international coverage for data types and research communities that now have critical masses of trained data stewards and data volumes in North America (pollen, diatoms, ostracods, testate amoebae, vertebrates), and 2) establishing critical masses of data and data stewards for recently added data types (specimen-level stable isotopes, organic biomarkers). Cyberinfrastructure improvements will include: 1) a web-based interface for bulk-uploading metadata and data from many sites, 2) better support for specimen-level isotopic measurements, 3) better visualization and analytical support for micropaleontological species-environment calibration datasets, and 4) a rebuild of Neotoma’s home webpage. Sustainability priorities include: 1) support for the recently launched non-profit EarthLife Consortium Foundation, and 2) a workshop in which leaders from Neotoma and other community data resources will receive training in building strategic sustainability plans, learn tools to manage finances and plan for the future, develop strategies to diversify their funding base, and enhance communication skills. These updates and improvements to Neotoma will enhance the existing data resource for current users, and will help early-career researchers, for whom data availability and data-science training can open new career pathways.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.

最近的地质记录可以提供有关物种如何适应（或未能适应）大规模和快速环境变化的有用见解。了解过去的全球变化需要对许多科学家从世界许多地方收集的许多单独记录进行汇总和分析。该项目将继续支持和开发 Neotoma 古生态学数据库，这是一个社区数据资源，专家可以在其中贡献数据，整理这些数据以满足社区标准，并在研究和教学中自由访问和使用这些数据。使用 Neotoma 资源包括了解过去灭绝的原因和后果，评估物种对过去冰河时代伴随的巨大环境变化的敏感性，以及测量物种适应过去快速环境变化的速度，Neotoma 的开放数据访问也将促进新形式的教育和推广。 ，通过让学生和教师直接访问研究质量的数据，并使他们能够对过去的气候和生物多样性动态进行自己的分析，这将有助于培训具有地质科学和数据科学交叉技能的下一代科学劳动力。 Neotoma 已成为以下领域的研究资源古生态学、古气候学、宏观生态学、生物地理学和环境考古学，数据量快速增长，支持的数据种类以及活跃的第三方和外部支持的研究项目将数千个站点级记录收集成高质量的全球记录。规模，数据网络需要仔细检查数据集，协调分类单元名称，更新年龄深度模型，并且 Neotoma 将继续通过集中基础设施模型来应对这些挑战。该项目的优先事项是：1）建立数据类型和研究社区的国际覆盖范围，这些社区现在在北美拥有大量经过培训的数据管理员和数据量（花粉、硅藻、介形虫、有睾变形虫、脊椎动物）， 2) 为最近添加的数据类型（标本级稳定同位素、有机生物标志物）建立关键数据量和数据管理员，网络基础设施将包括：1) 改进。基于网络的界面，用于从许多站点批量上传元数据和数据，2) 更好地支持样本级同位素测量，3) 更好地支持微古生物学物种环境校准数据集的可视化和分析，以及 4) 重建 Neotoma 主页可持续发展优先事项包括：1) 支持最近启动的非营利性地球生命联盟基金会，以及 2) 举办研讨会，来自 Neotoma 和其他社区数据资源的领导者将接受建设培训Neotoma 的这些更新和改进将增强当前用户的现有数据资源，并有助于早期职业生涯。研究人员，数据可用性和数据科学培训可以开辟新的职业道路。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The EarthLife Consortium API: an extensible, open-source service for accessing fossil data and taxonomies from multiple community paleodata resources

EarthLife Consortium API：一种可扩展的开源服务，用于从多个社区古数据资源访问化石数据和分类法

• DOI: 10.21425/f5fbg50711
• 发表时间: 2021-01
• 期刊: Frontiers of Biogeography
• 作者: Uhen, Mark D.;Buckland, Philip I.;Goring, Simon J.;Jenkins, Julian P.;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.

Eric C. Grimm 1951–2020

埃里克·C·格林 1951 年至 2020 年

• DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00828-z
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Bradshaw, Richard H.;Styles, Bonnie;Giesecke, Thomas;Flantua, Suzette G.;Bittmann, Feli;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.

Memorial to Eric Christopher Grimm 1951-2020

埃里克·克里斯托弗·格林纪念馆 1951-2020

• 发表时间: 2021-01
• 期刊: Memorials The Geological Society of America
• 作者: Graham; R.W.
• 通讯作者: R.W.