Facility Support: Continental Scientific Drilling

该奖项将为大陆科学钻探项目的开展提供管理和运营支持，使首席调查员能够专注于科学调查。为实现这一目标而提出的方法包括：编制钻井计划和预算、设计和制造设备、实施和管理钻井、与科学家和公众沟通、方案协调和整合、人力资源开发和教育以及健康和安全协议。DOSECC操作的钻井系统致力于满足科学家的需求。资助这项提案的结果将是提高科学钻探的效率。钻探是直接进入地下并取样的唯一方法。在大陆上进行科学钻探对于理解第三维至关重要，包括地层序列（地球过程的历史），采样较差或未暴露的间隔和那些被表面风化过程改变的间隔，以及采样保存在现代和古代湖泊中的气候代用品。过去和未来的项目正在解决地球科学中的变革性概念，如气候历史，人类起源和迁移以及大规模迁移。DOSECC为地球的学术研究提供必要的基础设施？s subsurface.几乎所有的科学钻探项目都涉及国际科学家和学生团队。这些项目将研究和教育结合在一起，通过汇集来自不同国家、文化和背景的研究人员来增加科学的多样性。为了鼓励学生参与这项研究，DOSECC发起了一项学生实习计划，资助来自任何国家的教师和学生参与科学钻探项目。科学钻探具有社会效益，包括监测地震和火山灾害、查明自然资源和确定气候变化。这些项目经常成为电视和网络报道的主题。DOSECC设立了一个杰出讲座系列，以传播科学钻探项目的成果。该系列是开放给任何大学的要求。DOSECC还为科学钻探界编写一份半年期通讯，并出版关于规划和实施成功和安全的科学钻探项目的最佳做法的手册。

This award will provide management and operational support for the conduct of continental scientific drilling projects, allowing Principal Investigators to focus on scientific investigations. The methods proposed to implement this objective include: preparation of drilling plans and budgets, design and fabrication of equipment, implementation and management of drilling, communications with scientists and the public, program coordination and integration, human resource development and education, and health and safety protocols. DOSECC operates drilling systems that are dedicated to the needs of scientists. The result of funding this proposal will be to increase the efficiency of scientific drilling. Drilling is the only method available for directly accessing and sampling the subsurface. Scientific drilling on continents is critical for understanding the third dimension including stratigraphic succession (history of earth processes), sampling poorly or non-exposed intervals and those altered by surface-weathering processes, and sampling the climate proxies preserved in modern and ancient lakes. Past and future projects are addressing transformative concepts in the earth sciences such as climate history, human origins and migration, and mass extinctions. DOSECC provides infrastructure necessary for academic research of the Earth?s subsurface. Nearly all scientific drilling projects involve international teams of scientists and students. These projects integrate research and education and serve to increase diversity in science by bringing together investigators from different nations, cultures and backgrounds. In order to encourage student involvement in this research, DOSECC has initiated a Student Internship Program that funds teachers and students from any nation to participate in scientific drilling projects. Scientific drilling has societal benefits, including monitoring of seismic and volcanic hazards, identification of natural resources, and determination of climate variability. The projects are often the subject of television and web reporting. DOSECC has established a Distinguished Lecture Series to disseminate results of scientific drilling projects. This series is open to any university on request. DOSECC also produces a bi-annual newsletter for the scientific drilling community, and publishes manuals regarding the best practices for planning and implementing successful and safe scientific drilling projects.***