Support for PAGES Varves Working Group 2nd Workshop

该提案要求NSF提供资金，以支持至少15个美国-的早期职业科学家（研究生，博士后，和新的教师/研究人员）参加在科珀斯克里斯蒂，得克萨斯州的研讨会。该研讨会的标题是“向其他社区学习”，并将重点关注基于科学家使用的工具和方法学的发展，这些科学家使用的工具和方法学与其他每年解决的气候档案（但不包括沉积物）。研讨会将由一位树木气候学家、一位冰芯科学家以及以年度分辨率工作的珊瑚和洞穴化石为基础的古科学专家发表主旨演讲。然后，该小组将讨论如何在这些领域中提出的“最佳实践”技术可以应用或适应于纹状沉积物，以及这种不同的介质应该考虑什么样的质量标准。本次研讨会的重点是制作强大的年表，这将对广泛的瓦瓦工人和项目的横截面非常有益。通过尽可能地消除纹层记录中的时间不确定性，这最终将转化为纹层沉积物记录作为过去全球变化的年度档案的更多使用和认可。研讨会将为经验丰富的纹层科学家向在同一领域工作的大批早期职业研究人员提供培训和知识转移的绝佳机会。讲习班的形式将有助于这一点，这种形式明确地促进讨论和意见交流。将作出重大努力，让少数群体、妇女和残疾人等代表性不足的群体成员参与。这次研讨会也将作为一个垫脚石，对自愿工作组？他的最终目标是使纹管记录更接近黄金标准的古气候记录，如树木年轮。这将最终改善古气候重建提供了另一系列强大的，良好的控制古气候记录，可以考虑。这次研讨会将提供大量的材料，最终将纳入由VWG制作的Varves“手册”。这本为研究人员编写的最佳做法“手册”将是一项重大努力，它将向更大的社区传播科学知识，造福于所有人。最后，这个研讨会将提供一个重要的机会，为当地的组织者/主席，一个早期的职业研究人员在得克萨斯州A M大学？科珀斯克里斯蒂。具体而言，它将建立和/或加强教育联盟和机会，把大学“在地图上”作为古科学研究生学位，特别是高分辨率研究的可能目的地。目前，这所大学并不以此闻名，但当地组织者/主席的主要目标之一是在那里启动一个古科学项目。

This proposal requests funds from the NSF to support at least 15 U.S.-based early career scientists (graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty/researchers) to participate in a workshop in Corpus Christi, TX. This workshop is titled "Learning from Other Communities," and will be focused on the development of robust chronologies based on what can learned about the tools and methodologies used by scientists who work with other annually resolved climate archives (but not varved sediments). The workshop will feature keynote addresses by a dendroclimatologist, an ice core scientist, and coral- and speleothem-based paleoscience experts who work at annual resolution. The group will then discuss how the presented 'best-practice' techniques in these fields can be applied or adapted to varved sediments, and what quality criteria should be taken into account with this different medium. The focus of this workshop on producing robust chronologies will be of great benefit to a broad cross-section of varve workers and projects. By removing as much time uncertainty as possible from varved records, this will eventually translate into the greater usage and recognition of varved sediment records as annual archives of past global change.The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for training and knowledge transfer from experienced varve scientists to a large group of early career researcher working in the same field. This will be facilitated by the workshop format, which explicitly promotes discussion and idea exchange. A significant effort will be made to involve members of underrepresented groups such as minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. This workshop will also serve as a stepping stone toward the VWG?s ultimate goal of moving varve records one step closer to gold-standard paleoclimate records like tree rings. This will eventually improve paleoclimate reconstructions by offering up another series of robust, well-controlled paleoclimate records that may be considered. This workshop will provide a tremendous amount of material that will eventually be incorporated into the varves "Handbook" produced by the VWG. This "Handbook" of best practices for researchers will be a significant effort that disseminates scientific knowledge to the larger community for the benefit of all. Finally, this workshop will provide an important opportunity for the local organizer/chair, an early career researcher at Texas A&M University?Corpus Christi. Specifically, it will establish and/or strengthen educational alliances and opportunities by putting the university "on the map" as a possible destination for graduate degrees in paleoscience, especially high resolution studies. Currently, the university is not known for this, but one of the primary goals of the local organizer/chair is to start up a paleoscience program there.