EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Advancing biogeoscience community standards and cyberinfrastructure via Critical Zone domain engagement in synthesis science

临界带（Critical Zone， CZ）是指从植被冠层处的大气到活跃循环地下水的下边界之间的地球可渗透近地表层。最近，美国临界带观测站（CZO）项目开展了一项促进跨临界带观测站合作的运动，重点是生物地球化学和相关微生物生态学研究。该项目通过培训讲习班使CZ社区能够使用软件，并更好地利用CZ生物地球化学和微生物生态学数据。这些目标将通过一系列虚拟和面对面的研讨会来实现，在这些研讨会上，CZ的科学家们有机会学习如何使用新的网络基础设施产品，并利用它们综合来自众多CZ站点的重要生物地球科学和微生物生态学数据。这项工作将同时支持社区主导的数据收集和共享标准的制定。软件开发团队作为IA项目人员和合作者的直接参与，将有助于培训CZ社区的成员使用新开发的软件。然后，CZ科学家将在一系列现实生活用例中使用这些工具，以综合现有CZO数据和分析协作设计的跨CZO生物地球化学和宏基因组样本收集和分析以及辅助测量的形式。这项工作不仅将培训CZ科学家使用新兴的EC CI工具，而且还将征求社区对软件改进的投入，并确定进一步EarthCube CI开发的剩余差距和需求。该项目为EarthCube设想的全地球分析和模拟能力奠定了基础，通过将关键区域科学家聚集在一起进行实践培训，以测试可用的网络基础设施工具，并提供广泛规模的综合多参数数据集。该项目将通过EarthCube网络基础设施促进生物地球化学和宏基因组数据的共享、标准化、综合和分析，进一步改善对关键区域研究成果的获取，使更广泛的地球科学界能够塑造未来EarthCube的活动和成果。这项工作将支持目前在美国和世界各地的关键区域收集的大量数据的综合，以及识别和填补关键数据空白。该项目将回答关键的生物地球化学和微生物生态学问题，如1)测量和模拟土壤形成过程中磷的命运，以及基岩与粉尘输入对不同系统生态系统磷的相对作用，以及2)评估养分有效性及其对不同系统微生物群落、生长速率和功能的影响。该项目还将促进利用关键区域数据的综合科学应用。该项目将通过有针对性的科学推广活动和不同类型科学家的参与，包括计算科学和地球科学社区之间的独特互动，促进关键地球立方体和关键区域天文台产品的广泛科学传播。主要研究成果将通过合作研究、综合论文和报告进行交流。该项目将通过有针对性的讲习班参与，促进早期职业研究人员的广泛能力建设。最后，项目发现和产品将通过项目负责人和地球立方体科学委员会、技术和建筑委员会的合作者的活动，以及关键区域科学家更广泛地参与到地球立方体活动中，为未来的地球立方体开发提供信息。

The Critical Zone (CZ) is the Earth's permeable near-surface layer from the atmosphere at the vegetation's canopy to the lower boundary of actively circulating groundwaters. There has been a recent movement in the US Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program to promote cross-CZO collaborations, with a major emphasis on biogeochemistry and related microbial ecology research. The project enable the CZ community to use software via training workshops, and better use CZ biogeochemistry and microbial ecology data. These objectives will be accomplished through a set of virtual and in-person workshops where CZ scientists have the opportunity to learn how to use the new cyberinfrastructure products, and use them to synthesize important biogeosciences and microbial ecology data from across numerous CZ sites. This effort will concurrently support the development of community-led standards for data collection and sharing. Direct involvement of software development teams as IA project personnel and collaborators will facilitate the training of members of the CZ community to use newly developed software. CZ scientists will then use these tools in a set of real-life use cases, in the form of synthesis of existing CZO data and analysis of collaboratively designed cross-CZO biogeochemical and metagenomic sample collection and analysis and ancillary measurements. This effort will not only train CZ scientists to use newly emerging EC CI tools, but also solicit community input on software improvements and identify remaining gaps and needs for further EarthCube CI development.This project lays the groundwork for the whole-earth analysis and simulation capability envisioned through EarthCube, by bringing critical zone scientists together with hands-on training to test available cyberinfrastructure tools with comprehensive multiparameter datasets spanning a wide range of scales. The project will further improve access to the products of critical zone research by promoting the sharing, standardization, synthesis and analysis of biogeochemical and metagenomic data via EarthCube cyberinfrastructure, enabling a broader array of geosciences communities to shape future EarthCube activities and outcomes. This effort will support synthesis of broad swaths of data currently being collected at critical zone sites in the US and worldwide, as well as identify and fill key data gaps. The project will answer key biogeochemistry and microbial ecology questions, such as 1) measuring and modeling the fate of phosphorus during soil formation, and the relative role of bedrock vs. dust inputs to ecosystem phosphorus across diverse systems, and 2) evaluating nutrient availability and its impacts on microbial communities, growth rates and functions, across diverse systems. This project will also facilitate integrative scientific applications using critical zone data. The project will engender broad scientific dissemination of key EarthCube and Critical Zone Observatory products through targeted scientific outreach activities and engagement of diverse types of scientists, including a unique interaction between the computational science and geoscience communities. Key findings will be communicated through collaborative research and synthesis papers and presentations. This project will contribute extensive capacity-building in early-career researchers through targeted workshop participation. Finally, project findings and products will be used to inform future EarthCube development through the activity of the PIs and collaborators in the EarthCube Science Committee and Technology and Architecture Committee, as well as through the broader engagement of critical zone scientists into earthcube activities.