RAPID: Seamless Marine-wetlands-coastal Soils Database to Support Urgent Decision-making Against the Deepwater Horizon Coastal Oiling

几年来，PI一直在开发一个数据系统，可以代表土壤的“基质，沉积物”的海岸边缘。 在过去的几年里，他们一直在设计这些问题的解决方案：（a）将大型海洋土壤数据库扩展到澳大利亚内陆的陆上景观，（B）研究密西西比三角洲地区的地质/生态变化，（c）在数字和语言数据的共同映射（异质数据问题）方面进行创新。沿海地区人口稠密，投资遍布全球。该项目将开辟一条道路，以更好地描述和理解的地质材料和环境模式在大面积的区域。特别是，更好地提供数据将改善规划和数值模型性能的基础上改进的投入和扩大的机会进行验证。 关于深水地平线灾难，该项目将立即提供更好的信息，重点关注并支持清理和补救工作。该项目将加强清理决策支持系统和数值模型，并将提供一个新的数据来源，与相关的研究方的科学测绘和实验工作。

For several years, the PIs have been developing a data system which can represent the soils "substrates, sediments" of the coastal fringe. They have been devising solutions to these problems over the last several years by: (a) extending a large marine soils database to onshore landscapes in the Australian outback, (b) researching the geologic/ecologic changes in the Mississippi delta region, (c) innovating in making numerical and linguistic data co-mappable (the heterogenous data problem). The coastal zone is heavily populated and invested in worldwide. This project will open the way to a better depiction and understanding of the geomaterial and environmental patterns over large expanses of the zone. In particular, better availability of data will improve planning and numerical model performance based on improved inputs and extended opportunities for validations. In regard to the Deepwater Horizon disaster this project will immediately provide better information focussed on and supporting the cleanup and remediation efforts. The project will strengthen the cleanup decision support systems and numerical models, and will provide a new source of data to work with the associated research-side scientific mapping and experimental work.