Workshop Proposal: Defining Grand Challenges in Sedimentary Geology & Paleobiology

研讨会提案：定义沉积地质学的重大挑战

• 批准号: 1048839
• 负责人: Isabel Montañez
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1048839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Proposal; Defining; Grand; Challenges

Defining Grand Challenges in Sedimentary Geology & Paleobiology Conveners: Isabel Montañez (University of California, Davis) & Charles Marshall (University of California, Berkeley) ABSTRACTThe Earth?s surface crust is host to (1) our mineral, hydrocarbon and water resources, (2) a full-spectrum record of past climate change, (3) a natural laboratory of the magnitude and rates of change in ecosystems under the range of past conditions, (4) the archive of the evolutionary history of life, including biodiversity and evolutionary innovation throughout Earth?s history, particularly during times of rapidly changing environmental conditions, and (5) a record of the processes that lead to or respond to natural hazards such as earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruptions. Scientific investigation into these and related issues is primarily the purview of sedimentary geologists and geochemists and paleontologists - increasingly working in collaboration. Recent scientific efforts in sedimentary geology and paleobiology (SGP) have led to notable advances in radiometric calibration of the geologic record and in our interpretive understanding of deep-time earth processes that cannot be inferred from any other archive than the Earth?s crustal carapace. Despite these advances the SGP community has not convened in the past decade or more to discuss and develop a SGP-wide and coherent vision for the future of research in our broader disciplinary field. Furthermore, funding levels to support SGP research are increasingly inadequate limiting the pursuit of exciting new scientific opportunities and directions as well as the development of intellectual, cultural and technical infrastructure needed to support research and mentoring activities. PIs propose a workshop for the exchange of ideas among representatives of the various sub-disciplines in SGP in order to identify key research questions and topics in sedimentary geology and geochemistry, deep-time paleoclimatology, and paleobiology that need to be addressed by the community through future research. The three primary objectives of the workshop are (1) to identify high-priority new and emerging research opportunities offered by the sedimentary, geochemical and paleontological records, (2) to develop and prioritize a set of guiding ?grand challenges? for the coming decade of research in the aforementioned sub-disciplines, and (3) delineate key instrumentation and facilities that will needed to support these new and emerging research opportunities.

定义沉积地质学和古生物学的重大挑战 召集人：伊莎贝尔·蒙塔涅斯（加州大学戴维斯分校）和查尔斯·马歇尔（加州大学伯克利分校） 摘要 地球表面地壳蕴藏着 (1) 我们的矿物、碳氢化合物和水资源，(2) 过去气候变化的全谱记录，(3) 一个自然实验室，用于测量在 过去条件的范围，（4）生命进化史的档案，包括整个地球历史上的生物多样性和进化创新，特别是在环境条件快速变化的时期，以及（5）导致或响应地震、洪水、火山爆发等自然灾害的过程的记录。对这些及相关问题的科学研究主要是沉积地质学家、地球化学家和古生物学家的职权范围，而且越来越多地合作。最近沉积地质学和古生物学（SGP）方面的科学努力在地质记录的辐射校准以及我们对深层地球过程的解释性理解方面取得了显着进展，这些过程只能从地球地壳甲壳之外的任何其他档案中推断出来。 尽管取得了这些进步，SGP 社区在过去十年或更长时间里还没有召开会议来讨论和制定 SGP 范围内的连贯的愿景，以实现我们更广泛的学科领域的研究的未来。此外，支持 SGP 研究的资金水平越来越不足，限制了对令人兴奋的新科学机会和方向的追求，以及支持研究和指导活动所需的知识、文化和技术基础设施的发展。 PI 提议举办一次研讨会，以便 SGP 各个分支学科的代表之间进行思想交流，以确定沉积地质学和地球化学、深时古气候学和古生物学方面需要社区通过未来研究解决的关键研究问题和主题。研讨会的三个主要目标是（1）确定沉积、地球化学和古生物学记录提供的高度优先的新兴研究机会，（2）制定一系列指导性“重大挑战”并确定其优先顺序。未来十年上述子学科的研究，以及（3）描述支持这些新兴研究机会所需的关键仪器和设施。