Support for PAGES Varves Working Group 2nd Workshop

该提案要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。该研讨会的标题为“从其他社区学习”，并将侧重于开发可靠的年表，该年表基于科学家使用的工具和方法，这些工具和方法可用于研究其他年度解决气候档案（但不包括沉积物）。研讨会的主题演讲将由一位树木气候学家、一位冰芯科学家和以珊瑚和洞穴为基础的古科学专家发表，他们的工作是每年一次。然后，该小组将讨论如何将这些领域的“最佳实践”技术应用或适应于不同的沉积物，以及在这种不同的介质中应该考虑哪些质量标准。本次研讨会的重点是制作健壮的年表，这将对广泛的阀门工人和项目有很大的好处。通过从可变记录中消除尽可能多的时间不确定性，这将最终转化为更多的使用和认可可变沉积物记录作为过去全球变化的年度档案。该研讨会将为有经验的阀门科学家向同一领域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。讲习班的形式将促进这一点，它明确地促进讨论和思想交流。将作出重大努力，让少数民族、妇女和残疾人等代表性不足的群体的成员参与进来。这次研讨会也将成为VWG的跳板。他的最终目标是使阀门记录更接近黄金标准的古气候记录，如树木年轮。这将最终通过提供另一系列可能被考虑的可靠的、控制良好的古气候记录来改善古气候重建。这次研讨会将提供大量的材料，这些材料最终将被纳入VWG制作的阀门“手册”中。这本为研究人员提供最佳实践的“手册”将是向更大的社区传播科学知识以造福所有人的重大努力。最后，本次研讨会将为当地组织者/主席提供一个重要的机会，他是德克萨斯州农工大学的一名早期职业研究员。科珀斯克里斯蒂。具体来说，它将建立和/或加强教育联盟和机会，把大学“放在地图上”，作为古科学研究生学位的可能目的地，特别是高分辨率的研究。目前，这所大学在这方面并不出名，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.