Organizational structure for Rocky Mountain EarthScope: science and education planning

为了优化其科学和教育遗产，EarthScope需要在科学家之间孵化区域综合努力，这将远远超出典型的个人PI或小组研究项目的范围。该提案是新墨西哥州大学和新墨西哥州采矿和技术研究所共同努力的结果，旨在建立一个全国性的组织结构，以集中和整合落基山脉地区（从北方落基山脉到美国西南部）的地球观测科学和教育活动。在包括桑迪亚和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室以及新墨西哥州地质局在内的这一总体框架下，该项目包括一系列多学科区域讲习班，这些讲习班将作为协调努力的一部分，以促进科学交流，帮助规划未来的EarthScope活动，整合现有的和尚未收集的地质和地球物理数据集，并帮助作为落基山脉地区的网络信息中心。智力优势：EarthScope在落基山脉地区的十年科学愿景是利用这一独特的构造和地球动力学背景来回答有关岩石圈演化和地球动力学过程的基本问题。落基山脉形成了北美构造活动不活跃的核心和沿沿着西海岸的活动板块边缘域之间的复杂过渡。因此，该地区为EarthScope提供了独特的潜力，可以在各种尺度上研究岩石圈-软流圈的相互作用，以回答有关大陆内部构造过程的问题。更广泛的影响：EarthScope应尽可能强调与社会问题的联系，如地质灾害（火山活动和地震活动），水的数量和质量，以及教育。 落基山地球镜的十年教育愿景包括改善不同群体之间的联系和沟通，同时讨论提高社会对地球科学的普遍赞赏的联合战略。由于该地区的人口相对较少和感兴趣的机构的独特协会，落基山地球镜提供了一个历史性的机会和凝聚点，以改善地球科学教育。该地区大量的美洲原住民和西班牙裔人口为此类努力的多样化提供了全国重要的机会。

To optimize its scientific and educational legacy, EarthScope needs to incubate regional integrated efforts among scientists that will go well beyond the scope of typical individual PI or small group research projects. This proposal is a joint effort of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to establish a national organizational structure to focus and integrate EarthScope science and education activities in the Rocky Mountain region (northern Rockies to the southwestern U.S.). Under this umbrella, which includes Sandia and Los Alamos National laboratories, and the New Mexico Bureau of Geology, the project includes a series of multidisciplinary regional workshops that will serve as part of a coordinated effort to foster scientific exchange, help plan future EarthScope activities, integrate existing and yet-to-be collected geologic and geophysical datasets, and help serve as a web-based information center for the Rocky Mountain region. Intellectual Merit: A decadal scientific vision for EarthScope in the Rocky Mountain region is to utilize this unique tectonic and geodynamic setting to answer fundamental questions about lithospheric evolution and geodynamic processes. The Rocky Mountains form a complex transition between the tectonically inactive core of North America and the active plate margin domain along the west coast. This region thus offers unique potential for EarthScope to examine lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions at a variety of scales to answer questions about tectonic processes within continental interiors.Broader Impacts: EarthScope should, where possible, emphasize ties to societal issues such as geologic hazards (volcanism and seismicity), water quantity and quality, and education. A decadal educational vision for Rocky Mountain EarthScope includes improving connections and communications between diverse groups, while discussing joint strategies for raising the general appreciation of Earth science in society. Because of the region's relatively small population and unique association of interested institutions, Rocky Mountain EarthScope offers an historic opportunity and rallying point to improve Earth science education. The large Native American and Hispanic populations of the region provide nationally significant opportunities for diversifying such efforts.