Collaborative Workshop: An Internet Resource for Integrating Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Mapping with On-line Earth Science Databases

协作研讨会：将板块构造和古地理制图与在线地球科学数据库相结合的互联网资源Scott Lidgard，Melanie Hopkins，野外自然历史博物馆？EAR-1141839布拉德利·萨格曼，西北大学？EAR-1141841本研讨会将开始开发一个社区范围的、基于网络的资源，讲述地球的故事，并为地球科学界提供一个研究工具，研究人员可以使用该工具来“了解他们的数据如何适合”地球系统演化的宏大故事。研讨会的参与者将讨论如何建立这样一个充满活力的互联网资源。讲习班的重点是创建一个因特网资源，将板块构造、古地理和古气候制图与现有的和未来可能的在线地球科学数据库(例如，古生物学数据库、GeoStratSys、COSUNA数据库、PALYNODATA[孢粉学]、美国地质调查局矿物数据库、全球地质学等)相结合。这样的系统将提供科学准确的、公众可访问的地图，展示大陆和海洋盆地在过去(约10亿年)不断变化的形态。地球板块构造史提供了更好地理解生命进化、全球气候从冰屋到热屋条件的转变、海洋环流和化学变化以及地球陆地表面重塑所需的时空框架。这将是为建立一个社区范围的系统/网络所作的第一次努力，在这个系统/网络中，所有相关的分支学科都可以参与其成果并从中受益。这是因为克里斯·斯科特免费提供前期使用，他的非专有、基于网络的古地理图库是过去40年通过他与业界的合作开发的，部分得到了NSF的支持。

Collaborative Workshop: An Internet Resource for Integrating Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Mapping with On-line Earth Science DatabasesScott Lidgard, Melanie Hopkins, Field Museum of Natural History?EAR-1141839Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University?EAR-1141841ABSTRACTThis workshop will begin the process of developing a community wide, web-based resource that tells Earth's story and provides the earth science community with a research tool that researchers can use to "see how their data fits" into the grand story of Earth System evolution. Workshop participants will discuss how to build such a dynamic internet resource. The focus of the workshop is to create an internet resource that integrates plate tectonic, paleogeographic and paleoclimatic mapping with existing and potential future on-line Earth Science databases (e.g., The Paleobiology Database, GeoStratSys, COSUNA database, PALYNODATA [palynology], USGS mineral database, GlobalGeology, and others). Such a system would provide scientifically-accurate, publicly accessible maps of the changing configuration of the continents and ocean basins back through time (~ 1 billion years). The plate tectonic history of the Earth provides the spatial-temporal framework required to better understand the evolution of life, the shift of global climate from Ice House to Hot House conditions, changes in the circulation and chemistry of the oceans, and the reshaping of the Earth's land surface. This will be the first such effort at developing a community-wide system/network in which all relevant subdisciplines can participate in and benefit from its results. This has come about because Chris Scotese freely contributes for use up front his non-proprietary web-based library of paleogeographic maps developed over the last 40 years through his work with industry and in part supported by NSF.