RCN: Global Soil Change Community Networking Chronosequence Studies and Long-term Soil Experiments

长期测量天气、洪水、水质、人类健康、野生动物数量、地震和空气污染等方面的数据非常重要。遗憾的是，没有类似的地球土壤观测网络。今天，地球的土壤正在迅速变化，这主要是由人类的影响所驱动的，而且人们对其变化的速度和过程知之甚少。一个土壤观测站网络不仅可以让科学家和公众了解土壤，还可以让他们了解土壤如何影响大气、水资源和生态系统本身的质量。该项目的目的是在科学家、学生和教师中建立一个RCN，他们对估计土壤变化的两种主要科学方法有经验：长期土壤实验（LTSE）和时序研究。智力目标是综合和批判性地评估土壤变化科学，并促进目前用于LTSE和时间序列研究的新研究。更广泛影响的目标是刺激科学界的发展（在科学学科和个人多样性方面），以及对研究和了解地球土壤变化的更大兴趣，为了实现这些目标，将合并两个积极的项目，这两个项目几年来一直平行运作：长期土壤实验网络项目和风化系统科学联盟（WSSC）。这个被提议的RCN将被称为全球土壤变化社区，它将建立在LTSE项目和WSSC的大部分工作的基础上，通过在世界范围内促进更多地使用长期土壤实验和时序研究。这些目标将通过年度研讨会和论文来实现，但特别是通过一个针对本科生、研究生和博士后以及教师的竞争性项目来实现。Drupal.org是一个网站内容管理系统（CMS），它将帮助我们将所有这些团体和其他团体（包括公众和代表性不足的团体）与一个对所有人开放的社区网站联系起来。到项目结束时，CMS应不仅包括网站驱动的LTSE和时序研究的库存，但土壤属性和过程数据的数据库，可用于运行models.These合作将显着推进土壤变化研究站点之间的相互作用，并显着提高对土壤地球化学变化的速率和过程的理解。

EAR-0541826RICHTERLong-term measurements of weather, floods, water quality, human health, wildlife populations, earthquakes, and air pollution are highly valued. Regrettably, there are no analogous networks of observations of the earth's soil. The Earth's soil is today changing rapidly, driven largely by human impact, and remarkably little is understood about its rate and processes of change. A network of soil observation sites could inform scientists and the public alike, not only about soil, but also about how soil affects the quality of the atmosphere, water resources, and ecosystems themselves. The intent of this project is to establish an RCN among scientists, students, and teachers, who have experience with the two main scientific approaches to estimating soil change: long-term soil experiments (LTSEs) and chronosequence studies.The intellectual goal is to synthesize and critically evaluate the science of soil change, and to promote new research across sites currently used for LTSEs and chronosequence studies.The goal for broader impact is to stimulate scientific community development (both in terms of scientific discipline and in diversity of individuals), as well as much greater interest in the study and appreciation for the changing soil of planet Earth.To accomplish these goals, two active projects will be combined which for several years have been operating in parallel: the Long-Term Soil Experiment Networking Project and the Weathering Systems Sciences Consortium (WSSC). This proposed RCN will be called the Global Soil Change Community, and it will build upon much of the work of LTSE Project and WSSC by promoting greater use of long-term soil experiments and chronosequence studies throughout the world.These goals will be accomplished with annual workshops and papers, but especially through a competitive program for undergraduate and graduate students and post-docs, as well as for teachers. Drupal.org, a website content management system (CMS), will help us unite all these groups and others (including the general public and under-represented groups as well) with a community website that is remarkably open to all. By the end of the project, a CMS should include not only website-driven inventories of LTSEs and chronosequence studies but data bases of soil property and process data that can be used to run models.These collaborations will significantly advance the interaction among soil-change research sites and significantly enhance understanding of the rate and processes of soil biogeochemical change.