NSF Workshop Proposal: Towards a Unifying Theory of Critical Zone Structure, Function and Evolution

这个“研讨会”提案为2011年5月9日至12日在亚利桑那州图森附近的生物圈2号举行的“全体人员”国家关键区域观测计划会议请求资金。关键区天文台（CZO）首席研究员之间正在进行的讨论确定了在年度会议中纳入更多CZO人员的必要性，以便(i)让CZO的学生、博士后科学家和合作研究者了解网络中其他CZO的活动，（ii）加强跨CZO的信息交流和合作。（iii）使czo能够协同参与关键地带结构、功能和演变的必要理论和测量的发展任务。拟议的讲习班旨在实现这些目标。该研讨会旨在扩大社区对CZO研究的参与，并让年轻研究人员参与推动跨CZO科学议程的发展。讲习班将包括由应邀（非CZO资助）进行关键区域进程研究的发言者所作的一系列六次演讲，以及CZO人员，特别是学生和博士后科学家的口头和海报介绍。它还将涉及大量专门的时间来讨论研究学科整合，以及为期一天的研讨会，以开发一组问题、假设和研究方法/方法，以供CZO团队进行可能的网络追求，这些团队将：(i)协同使用CZO数据集的现有共性，和/或（ii）产生新的X-CZO合作。

This "workshop" proposal requests funding for the "All Hands" National Critical Zone Observatory Program meeting to be held at Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Arizona, May 9-12, 2011.Ongoing discussions between Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Principal Investigators has identified the need to incorporate a larger cross section of CZO personnel in the annual meeting in order to (i) expose CZO students, postdoctoral scientists, and co-investigators to the activities of other CZOs in the network, (ii) to enhance cross-CZO information exchange and collaboration, and (iii) enable collaborative engagement of CZOs in the task of the development of requisite theory and measurement of critical zone structure, function and evolution. The proposed workshop is intended to meet these objectives.The workshop is intended to broaden community involvement in CZO research and engage young investigators in furthering the development of the cross-CZO science agenda. The workshop will contain a series of six lectures presented by invited (non-CZO-funded) speakers that are conducting research on critical zone processes, in addition to oral and poster presentations by CZO personnel, particularly students and postdoctoral scientists. It will also involve a significant amount of dedicated time for discussions on research disciplinary integration, and a one-day workshop to develop a set of questions, hypotheses, and research approaches/methods for possible network pursuit by the CZO teams that will: (i) make synergistic use of existing commonalities across the CZO data sets, and/or (ii) give rise to novel X-CZO collaborations.