GeoPRISMS Office Support

地球地质系统是一个由社区主导的项目，旨在通过实地研究、实验室实验和理论分析相结合的综合方法，了解大陆边缘的活动过程。该计划解决有关地球上最活跃的构造，质量转移和沉积系统的一阶问题，这些问题与影响人口中心的主要地质灾害有关，包括大地震，火山爆发，海啸和山体滑坡。该计划支持跨越陆地-海洋边界的跨学科科学研究，并将这些努力集中在可以利用国家和国际合作的选定地点；地球地质系统的焦点地点包括北美东部边缘、太平洋西北部和阿拉斯加的俯冲板块边界。地球地质科学是围绕着两个项目组织起来的——裂谷形成与演化（RIE）和俯冲旋回与动力学（SCD）——它们研究大陆边缘的行为和动力学，这些区域拥有大量的人口中心，是广泛的工业、经济、运输和战略活动的关键区域。这两个计划通过一组总体主题进一步联系起来，这些主题为这些复杂系统的集成和基于过程的理解提供了上下文。总的来说，地球地质系统项目的这两个要素针对的是固体地球科学中基本和突出的问题，包括：流体、岩浆和变形之间的反馈；控制沿走向和时间变化的变形行为，地震和地球化学循环；以及表面加工与变形之间的联系。该计划的框架和办公室协调不同科学社区的活动，为思想交流、新的合作以及学生和早期职业科学家的参与提供了重要的智力孵化器。地质系统办公室通过发展、协调和促进研究合作、跨学科协同以及不同科学界的参与，在这个充满活力的社区驱动项目中发挥着至关重要的作用。具体活动包括组织会议和讲习班；透过网站及出版通讯，传播研究成果及机会；确定与主要国际和国家项目合作的新机会；管理数据库活动；协助后勤和科学活动；并作为NSF和georisms社区之间的联络人。

GeoPRISMS is a community-led program aimed at understanding active processes along continental margins, through integrative approaches that merge field studies, laboratory experiments, and theoretical analysis. The program addresses first-order questions about Earth's most active tectonic, mass transfer, and sedimentary systems, and which are relevant to major geohazards that affect population centers, including large earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. The program supports interdisciplinary scientific research that crosses the land-ocean boundary, and focuses these efforts at selected locations where national and international collaborations can be leveraged; the focus sites for GeoPRISMS include the eastern margin of North America, and the subduction plate boundaries of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. GeoPRISMS science is organized around two initiatives - Rift Initiation and Evolution (RIE) and Subduction Cycles and Dynamics (SCD) - that address the behavior and dynamics of continental margins, which host large population centers and are critical regions to wide-ranging industrial, economic, transport, and strategic activity. The two initiatives are further linked by a suite of overarching themes that provide a context for integration and process-based understanding of these complex systems. Taken together, these two elements of the GeoPRISMS program target fundamental and outstanding questions in the Solid Earth sciences including: feedbacks between fluids, magmas, and deformation; controls on along-strike and temporal variations in deformation behavior, earthquakes, and geochemical cycling; and links between surface processes and deformation. The framework of the program, and the activities of the office to coordinate a diverse scientific community, provide an important intellectual incubator for the exchange of ideas, new collaborations, and engagement of students and early career scientists. The GeoPRISMS Office plays an essential role in this vibrant community-driven program by developing, coordinating, and facilitating research collaboration, synergy across disciplines, and engagement of a diverse scientific community. Specific activities include the organization of meetings and workshops; dissemination of research findings and opportunities through the website and publication of a newsletter; identification of new opportunities for collaboration with major international and national programs; managing database activities; assisting with logistical and scientific activities; and serving as a liaison between NSF and the GeoPRISMS community.