EarthCube GEO Domain Workshop: Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeoscience

地球立方是地球科学局和国家科学基金会网络基础设施办公室的合资企业。这是一项由社区推动的努力，目的是为地球科学设计和实施一个有效的数据和知识管理系统，该系统将整合不同的数据集和网络服务，并为地球科学界的所有成员提供服务。该奖项是为了表彰将于2013年冬季举办的一个讲习班，该讲习班围绕一个名为“古地球科学”的科学领域(主题)组织。这一广泛领域的定义特征是1)它关注过去的地球系统过程，2)这一领域的所有科学推断最终都建立在该领域的物理样品收集的基础上，从这些样品中提取了各种地球化学、地球生物学和地球物理测量数据。这一领域的科学家从事的古记录包括：在海底、湖床、泥炭地、大陆地壳、冰川或冰盖或树木中钻探的岩芯；从露头敲打的岩石样本；从各种沉积环境中提取的化石遗骸；洞穴和珊瑚。参与者将由已经在从事EarthCube活动的关键个人以及来自这个新成立的特殊兴趣小组的人组成。我们将特别努力接触这个多样化社区的所有成员，以便收集尽可能多的关于用户需求的信息，以及与长尾有关的EarthCube的其他方面的信息。广泛的影响涉及极大地改变古地球科学家与数据互动的方式，无论是通过发现现有数据、提供新数据的背景、描述和比较不同的数据集，还是归档数据，以使新的问题能够得到回答和现有挑战得到解决。对于研究生、本科生甚至中学学生(以及他们的老师)来说，影响可能至少同样大，甚至更大，因为数据发现、可视化和比较的简化将允许受过较少培训的人以有意义的方式与古地球科学数据互动。这些工具将促进科学发现的传播，甚至是向决策者和广大公众传播。

EarthCube is a joint venture between the Directorate of Geosciences and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. It is a community-driven effort to design and implement an effective data and knowledge management system for the geosciences that will integrates disparate data sets and web services and serves all members of the geoscience community. This award is for a workshop to be convened in Winter 2013, organized around a scientific domain (theme) called ?Paleogeoscience?. The defining characteristics of this broad domain are 1) its focus on past earth system processes and 2) that all scientific inferences in this domain are ultimately based on the collection of physical samples in the field, from which many kinds of geochemical, geobiological, and geophysical measurements are extracted. This domain includes scientists working on paleorecords from: cores drilled in the seafloor, lakebeds, peatlands, continental crust, glaciers or ice sheets, or trees; rock samples hammered from outcrops; fossil remains retrieved from various depositional environments; speleothems; and corals.Participants will consist of key individuals already working on EarthCube activities, as well as those from this newly formed special interest group. Special efforts will be made to reach out to all members of this diverse community in order to gather as much information about user requirements and other aspects of EarthCube relevant to the ?long tail? of data.Broader impacts involve the potential to change dramatically the way paleogeoscientists interact with data, whether through discovery of existing data, providing context for new data, characterizing and comparing disparate datasets, or archiving data, in ways that will enable new questions to be answered and existing challenges to be addressed. The impact will likely be at least as great, and possibly greater, for students at the graduate, undergraduate, and even secondary levels (and their teachers), as the simplification of data discovery, visualization, and comparison will allow people with less training to interact with paleogeoscience data in a meaningful way. These tools will facilitate the communication of scientific findings even to policymakers and the public at large.