Support for PAGES Varves Working Group 2nd Workshop

该提案请求美国国家科学基金会提供资金，支持至少15名美国早期职业科学家(研究生、博士后和新教师/研究人员)参加在德克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂举行的研讨会。这次研讨会的题目是“向其他社区学习”，并将侧重于根据科学家所能学到的工具和方法制定可靠的年表，这些科学家使用的是其他年度解析的气候档案(但不是各种沉积物)。研讨会将由一位树状气候学家、一位冰芯科学家以及致力于年度分辨率工作的珊瑚和洞穴古科学专家发表主旨演讲。然后，小组将讨论如何将这些领域中提出的“最佳实践”技术应用于不同的沉积物，以及对于这种不同的介质应该考虑什么质量标准。这次研讨会的重点是制作可靠的年表，这将对VVVE工作人员和项目的广泛横截面大有裨益。通过从不同的记录中消除尽可能多的时间不确定性，这最终将转化为更多地使用和承认不同的沉积物记录，作为过去全球变化的年度档案。研讨会将为经验丰富的不同沉积物记录的科学家向同一领域的一大批早期职业研究人员提供培训和知识转移提供一个极好的机会。研讨会的形式明确地促进了讨论和思想交流，这将促进这方面的工作。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进来。这个研讨会也将成为VWG S最终目标的垫脚石，该目标是将VVE记录向树轮等黄金标准的古气候记录更近一步。这最终将通过提供另一系列稳健的、控制良好的古气候记录来改进古气候重建，这些记录可能会被考虑。这次研讨会将提供大量的材料，这些材料最终将被纳入VARVE《手册》，由VWG制作。这本研究人员最佳实践“手册”将是向广大社区传播科学知识、造福所有人的一项重大努力。最后，这次研讨会将为当地的组织者/主席提供一个重要的机会，他是德克萨斯农工大学的早期职业研究员？科珀斯·克里斯蒂。具体地说，它将建立和/或加强教育联盟和机会，将该大学作为可能的古科学研究生学位的目的地，特别是高分辨率研究。目前，这所大学并不以此而闻名，但当地组织者/教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.