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

0225473 SeberThe GEOscience Network（GEON）项目旨在将前沿的信息管理研究用于为固体地球科学创建网络基础设施，以在4D空间中互连多学科地球科学数据集。 通过一系列由国家科学基金会主办的关于地理信息学的社区会议，人们认识到需要管理日益增多的各种地球科学数据。 GEON与代表GEON相关关键技术领域的IT研究人员和代表地球科学分支学科广泛领域的地球科学研究人员之间的合作，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，以便对网络数据进行跨学科分析在研究范围广泛的现象，包括构造和沉积盆地的演变之间的相互作用;在气候和生命的演变中的造山作用;地质灾害，如地震和火山的更广泛的预测理解和建模能力;通过时间的地球的4D重建;和，管理我们星球的自然资源。这些问题都需要跨学科的研究，以发现地球科学学科之间的关系，并依赖于社区的能力，建立一个综合的地球科学信息系统。 GEON的目标是发展必要的信息技术基础，并创建这样一个系统。许多过去和正在进行的地球科学项目已经产生了有价值的子学科和学科数据库。 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）以及美国地质调查局（USGS）等政府机构，都在为社区提供研究和数据。 在此基础上，现在的当务之急是采取一个步骤，超越研究产生学科数据库，通过创建GEON网络基础设施，走向跨学科信息整合和工具共享的新范式。 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，为研究和合作开辟前所未有的途径，并为建立地球科学合作机构奠定基础。

0225473SeberThe 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.***