EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research

本次研讨会将汇集岩石力学和压缩矿物物理社区，为nsf资助的EarthCube计划收集需求，该计划的目标是为地球科学设计和实施一个新的数据和知识管理系统。研讨会将聚集约70名岩石变形和高压矿物物理专家，讨论他们在数据、建模和可视化方面的网络基础设施需求。目标将是满足目前阻碍这些社区发展的网络基础设施需求，并使他们能够解决断层滑动行为、岩性材料的脆性-韧性转变、科学钻探、俯冲带的变形过程以及地球深部地质材料的物理、化学和电子特性。为期两天半的研讨会将于2013年11月初在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市举行。研讨会的一个催化问题涉及实验和观测数据的性质和报告。解决这些网络基础设施需求是对数字表示/集成和允许公众广泛访问该领域数据的根本性挑战，而EarthCube可以帮助解决这些问题。该项目对地球科学的科学和网络基础设施发展都很重要。未来地球科学的发展将基于丰富多样的数据集的整合。本次研讨会将确定地球科学中最重要和与社会相关的群体之一的需求。在描述和集成跨尺度和粒度范围的数据方面，将有大量具有智力挑战性的任务，这些任务将在研讨会上得到解决。这项工作的更广泛影响包括改善公众获取这些领域数据的途径，特别是那些对研究地震或评估和管理地震影响感兴趣的人。它还在帮助创建更有效和可互操作的数据和建模框架方面为科学构建基础设施。研讨会还将强调早期职业研究人员的参与，从而确保满足下一代岩石变形专业人员的需求。

This workshop is to bring together the Rock Mechanics and COMPRESS Mineral Physics communities to gather requirements for the NSF-funded EarthCube initiative whose goal is to design and implement a new data and knowledge management system for the geosciences. The workshop will assemble a group of about 70 experts in rock deformation and high-pressure mineral physics to discuss their cyberinfrastructure needs in terms of data, modeling, and visualization. Goals will be to surface cyberinfrastructure needs that are presently holding these communities back and to enable their ability to address fault-slip behaviors, brittle-ductile transitions in lithologic materials, scientific drilling, deformation processes in subduction zones, and the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of geologic materials in the deep Earth. The two and a half day workshop will be held in Alexandria, Virginia in early November of 2013. A catalyzing issue of the workshop concerns the nature and reporting of experimental and observational data. Addressing these cyberinfrastructure needs represents a fundamental challenge to digital representation/integration and allowance of broad public access to data from this field that can be aided by involvement with EarthCube. 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 societally relevant groups in Earth Science. There will be a vast array of intellectually challenging tasks in describing and integrating data across a spectrum of scales as well as granularity that will be addressed at the workshop. Broader impacts of the work include provisions for improving public access to data from these fields, especially for those interested in studying earthquakes or assessing and manageing their impacts. it also builds infrastructure for science in terms of helping create more effective and interoperable data and modeling frameworks. The workshop will also emphasize the inclusion of early career researchers, thus ensuring the needs are met of the next generation of rock deformation professionals.