ITR Collaborative Research: GEON: A Research Project to Create Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences

0225670Keller地球科学网络(GEON)项目旨在利用前沿信息管理研究为固体地球科学创建一个网络基础设施，将4D空间中的多学科地球科学数据集相互联系起来。通过美国国家科学基金会主办的一系列关于地理信息学的社区会议，人们认识到管理日益增长的不同地球科学数据的必要性。代表与地球科学相关的关键技术领域的IT研究人员和代表地球科学各分支学科的地球科学研究人员之间的Geon合作将为国家地球信息学方案提供基础。地球科学迫切需要一个国家信息基础设施，使社区能够共享数据库和工具，以便能够对联网数据集进行跨学科分析，研究广泛的现象，包括构造和沉积盆地的演化；造山在气候和生命演化中的作用；对地震和火山等地质灾害的更广泛的预测理解和建模能力；通过时间对地球进行4D重建；以及管理我们星球的自然资源。这些问题中的每一个都需要跨学科研究来发现地球科学学科之间的关系，并取决于社区构建综合地球科学信息系统的能力。GEON的目标是发展必要的IT基础并创建这样一个系统。地球科学中的许多过去和正在进行的项目都产生了有价值的分学科和学科数据库。许多国家中心和组织，如IRIS，UNAVCO，国家生态分析和综合中心(NCEAS)，南加州地震中心(SCEC)，以及政府机构，如美国地质调查局(USGS)，正在为社区贡献研究和数据。在此基础上，现在的当务之急是在建立学科数据库的研究基础上迈出一步，通过建立GEON网络基础设施，实现跨学科信息整合和工具共享的新范例。GEON产生的研究产品和服务将提供给整个科学界，并将改变进行地球科学研究的方式，开辟前所未有的研究与合作途径，并为创建地球科学协作室提供基础。*

0225670KellerThe GEOscience Network (GEON) project seeks to bring leading-edge information management research to bear on creating a cyberinfrastructure for the solid earth geosciences to interlink multidisciplinary geoscience data sets in 4D space. The need to manage the growing amounts of diverse Earth science data has been recognized through a series of NSF-sponsored community meetings on Geoinformatics. The GEON collaboration between IT researchers, who represent key technology areas relevant to GEON, and Earth science researchers, who represent a broad cross section of Earth science sub-disciplines, will provide the foundation for a national Geoinformatics program.There is a pressing need in the Earth sciences for a national information infrastructure that enables the community to share databases and tools to enable interdisciplinary analysis of networked data sets in studying a wide range of phenomena including the interplay between tectonics and the evolution of sedimentary basins; the role of mountain building in the evolution of climate and life; broader predictive understanding and modeling capabilities of geologic hazards, such as earthquakes and volcanoes; the 4D reconstruction of the Earth through time; and, managing the natural resources of our planet. Each of these problems requires interdisciplinary research to discover relationships among Earth science disciplines, and depends on the community's ability to construct an integrated geoscience information system. The goal of GEON is to develop the necessary IT foundations and create such a system.Many past and on-going projects in the geosciences have produced valuable sub-disciplinary and disciplinary databases. Numerous national centers and organizations such as IRIS, UNAVCO, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), as well as government agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), are contributing research and data to the community. Building on this base, the imperative now is to take a step beyond research resulting in disciplinary databases, towards a new paradigm for interdisciplinary information integration and tool sharing via the creation of the GEON cyberinfrastructure. The research products and services arising from GEON will be available to the entire scientific community and will transform the way in which geoscience research is conducted, opening unprecedented avenues for research and collaboration and providing the foundation for creating geoscience collaboratories.***