Geochemical Earth Reference Model: GERM Workshop and Development of GERM Data Base

StaudigelEAR-0000998本提案请求资金继续支持一项基层倡议，以建立一个全球相关的、跨学科的地球化学数据库和模型资源(即，地球化学地球参考模型)。在今后两年中，地球资源监测系统将在2001年召开第二次讲习班，并继续开发一个基于网络的数据库，最终将大大改善对地球这一动态系统的认识。它还计划建立将细菌数据库与其他地球化学资源联系起来的方法，例如来自美国和国外的现有地球化学数据库，以及美国地球物理联盟出版的新的电子期刊G3。一旦作为关系数据库建立，GERM将通过添加建模工具进行扩展。最终，Germ将发展成为一种在线工具，用于模拟地球演化，以帮助协调现有地球化学模型之间的差异，并包括地球热损失等地球物理数据。这项提议确定了一条通往建立全面的全球地球化学和地球物理模型这一最终目标的道路。

StaudigelEAR-0000998This proposal requests funds to continue to support a grass-roots initiative to establish a globally relevant and interdisciplinary data base and modeling resource in geochemistry (i.e., the Geochemical Earth Reference Model). Over the next two years, GERM will convene a second workshop in 2001 and continue the development of a web-based data base that will ultimately lead towards a much improved understanding of the Earth as a dynamic system. It is also planned to establish ways to tie the GERM data base with other geochemical resources, such as existing data bases in geochemistry from the U.S. and abroad, and the new electronic journal G3 published by the American Geophysical Union. Once established as a relational data base, GERM will be expanded by the addition of modeling tools. Ultimately, GERM will develop into an on line tool for modeling Earth evolution to help reconcile differences between existing geochemical models, and include geophysical data such as the heat loss of the Earth. This proposal defines a path toward the ultimate goal of establishing a comprehensive global geochemical and geophysical model of the Earth.