Envisioning Success: A Workshop for Next Generation EarthCube Scholars and Scientists

地球科学的数据和数据类型多种多样，而且分散在各学术机构和联邦机构中，所有这些机构都有自己的数据格式和相关的搜索和发现标准，因此无法最大限度地有效利用这一巨大的信息财富。 为了改善这一状况，2011年启动了一项由地球科学局和网络基础设施办公室共同资助的名为EarthCube的新的国家科学基金会倡议，以便为地球科学和环境科学建立一个可互操作的综合数据和知识管理系统。 这一进程的一个组成部分是地球科学和网络基础设施社区在各级的参与，以确保EarthCube的最终设计和实施满足所有最终用户的需求。 EarthCube成功的关键是它能够满足地球科学家的未来需求，并能够适应计算机科学和技术的新发展。 为了使早期职业地理和网络科学家的投入，一个研讨会，专注于早期职业科学家的预期职业轨迹可能是最终用户和基础设施开发商，已经资助了他们的需求，并预测未来这些早期职业专业人士如何设想EarthCube将如何影响他们的科学和职业轨迹。 研讨会在华盛顿卡内基研究所举行。 它由一个多元化的召集人团队主持，重点是收集这一关键的早期职业人口的投入。 为期两天的研讨会将涉及来自美国各地的地理和网络科学的41个不同学科的参与者。 这项工作的更广泛影响包括为NSF的一项主要活动的设计提供关键利益相关者的投入，该活动的重点是建立科学基础设施，并让早期职业科学家参与这一过程。

The diversity of data and data types in the geosciences and their dispersal among various academic institutions and federal agencies, all of which have their own data formats and associated search and discovery criteria have prevented maximum effective utilization of this tremendous wealth of information. To ameliorate this situation, a new NSF initiative, called EarthCube, which is jointly funded by the Directorate of Geosciences and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, was initiated in 2011 to create an interoperable and integrated data and knowledge management for the geo- and environmental sciences. An integral part of the process is geoscience and cyberinfrastructure community engagement, at all levels, to ensure that EarthCube's final design and implementation serves all end user needs. Crucial to the success of EarthCube is its ability to serve the future needs of geoscientists and its ability to scale to new developments in computer science and technology. To enable input from early career geo-and cyber scientists, a workshop, focused on the expected career trajectory of early career scientists likely to be end users and infrastructure developers, has been funded to examine their needs and to project into the future how these early career professionals envision how EarthCube will impact their science and career trajectories. The workshop is being held at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. It is being hosted by a diverse team of convenors and is focused on collecting input from this crucial early career demographic. The two-day workshop will involve participants from 41 different disciplines within the geo and cyber sciences from around the US. Broader impacts of the work include providing key stakeholder input into the design of a major NSF activity focused on building infrastructure for science and engaging early career scientists in the process.