EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop for Structural Geology and Tectonics

该项目正在支持一个为期两天的研讨会，该研讨会将确定结构地质学和构造学社区(SGTC)与EarthCube努力之间可能的相互作用。研讨会将召集约40名结构地质学和构造学研究人员，以更好地确定网络基础设施需求以及社区内所需的互动，以及与EarthCube的互动，以采取下一步步骤，创建更一体化的数字框架。这项工作包括：1)确定国家科学技术委员会的科学驱动因素和挑战；2)确定使用国家科学技术委员会内外的数据和工具的障碍；3)列出现有的和更迫切需要的数据、工具和可视化，以形成社区的网络基础设施；4)创建几个用例，展示如何利用网络基础设施解决科学驱动因素或为教学和研究提供关键联系；以及5)启动与现有数据库的对话，讨论如何进行建设性的互动。研讨会的一个催化问题涉及实地数据的性质。结构数据是在非常广泛的空间(10-8m至104m)和时间尺度上收集的，收集需要在大多数尺度上进行观察、推断和解释。这些数据对于任何构造建模和推断都是至关重要的。这些数据是构造地质学和构造学的核心，对数字表示/集成提出了根本性的挑战，可以通过与EarthCube努力的相互作用来辅助。该项目对地球科学的科学和网络基础设施发展都很重要。未来地球科学的进展将基于丰富和多样化的数据集的整合。该讲习班将确定地质学中最重要、数据最丰富和数据最复杂的领域之一的需求。在描述和集成各种尺度和粒度的数据方面，将会有大量具有智力挑战性的任务。为结构地质学和构造学数据构建网络基础设施将使更多的研究人员能够访问这些数据。这一领域描述并定量记录了地球表面的地质情况。这本身就对研究地球的个人、团体和组织产生了影响。此外，这种数据的数字表示可供当地和全球范围的私营和政府组织使用。最后，将构造地质学和构造学的数据和模型整合到EarthCube的工作中将是EarthCube成功的基础。

This project is supporting a two-day workshop that will be held identify the possible interactions between the Structural Geology and Tectonics community (SGTC) with the EarthCube effort. The workshop will assemble a group of about 40 Structural Geology and Tectonics researchers to define better the cyberinfrastructure needs as well as the required interactions within the community as well as with the EarthCube to take the next steps in creating a more integrated digital framework. This effort includes: 1) establishing science drivers and challenges of the SGTC; 2) identifying the impediments to using data and tools both within and external to the SGTC; 3) listing existing and more critically needed data, tools, and visualization to form a cyberinfrastructure for the community; 4) creating several use cases that demonstrate how the cyberinfrastructure will be used to address the science drivers or provide critical connections for teaching and research; and 5) initiating conversation with existing databases on how to interact constructively. A catalyzing issue of the workshop concerns the nature of field data. Structural data is collected on an extremely wide range of spatial (10-8 m to 104 m) and temporal scales, and the collection requires observation, inference, and interpretation at most of these scales. These data are critical to any tectonic modeling and inference. This data at the core of Structural Geology and Tectonics and presents a fundamental challenge to digital representation/integration that can be aided by the interaction with the EarthCube effort.This project is important for both the scientific and cyberinfrastructure development of the geosciences. Future progress of the geosciences will be based on the integration of rich and diverse datasets. This workshop will identify the needs of one of the most important and data-rich as well as data complex areas in geology. There will be a vast array of intellectually challenging tasks in describing and integrating data across a spectrum of scales as well as granularity.The construction of a cyberinfrastructure for Structural Geology and Tectonics data will make these data accessible to a much larger group of researchers. This field describes and quantitatively documents the surface geology of the Earth. That itself has impacts into individuals, groups, and organizations that study the earth. In addition, the digital presentation of such data can be used by private and governmental organizations across the local to global spectrum. Lastly, the integration of Structural Geology and Tectonics data and models into the EarthCube effort will be fundamental to the success of EarthCube.