RCN: RATES: Building a Spatial and Temporal Framework for Understanding Surface Earth Processes

该项目将建立一个研究协调网络“地球速率：连接沉积地壳的尺度”，为社区参与和建立新的合作提供框架和机会，以促进对地球沉积地壳的跨学科研究。该RCN将汇集来自NSF赞助的实体的研究人员，如古生物学数据库，Neotoma，Macrostrat，EarthTime，EarthChem，地球生命过渡，大陆科学钻探协调办公室和Flyover Country，以制定战略，利用和建立社区合作努力，以应对地球系统科学的重大挑战。 其中包括：1）海洋、地球沉积地壳、碳汇和土壤以及生命本身是如何共同进化的，这告诉了我们关于地球-生命综合系统未来轨迹的什么？生态系统对地球系统状态变化的响应范围、脆弱性模式和恢复力是什么？通过将这些团体的研究人员和领导人聚集在一起并建立更强大的伙伴关系，我们将朝着开发一个完全集成的四维数字地球的目标迈进，以充分了解地球动态系统的演变。EarthRates RCN将以社区最近的活动为基础，促进将这些团体聚集在一起的努力：1）举办研讨会，2）建立工作组，3）提供培训机会，以建立未来的劳动力队伍，4）发起数据动员活动，5）加强社区联系，6）发现新的合作伙伴和机会，7）通过社交媒体和强大的网络形象进行宣传（如继续开发“更广泛的影响信息交换所”，通过Flyover Country移动的应用程序扩大外联机会，并加大招聘力度，保留和促进代表性不足的群体的成员），以及8）通过暴露和可视化来自EarthRate社区数据库的数据，整合努力，建立沉积地壳的研究能力。该项目将创建一个更强大的科学基础设施，利用NSF已经花费的资金进一步建立对了解地球过去和未来状态至关重要的社区。

This project will establish a Research Coordination Network (RCN) "EarthRates: Linking Scales Across the Sedimentary Crust" that will provide the framework and opportunity to engage communities and forge new collaborations in order to foster transdisciplinary research on Earth's sedimentary crust. This RCN will bring together investigators from NSF-sponsored entities such as the Paleobiology Database, Neotoma, Macrostrat, EarthTime, EarthChem, Earth-Life Transitions, the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office, and Flyover Country to strategize, leverage and build community collaborative efforts to address major grand challenges in Earth system science. These include: 1) how have the oceans, the Earth's sedimentary crust, carbon sinks and soils, and life itself evolved together, and what does this tell us about the future trajectory of the integrated Earth-life system? and 2) what are the ranges of ecosystem response, modes of vulnerability, and resilience to changes in Earth-system states? By bringing investigators and leaders from these groups together and building stronger partnerships, we will move towards the goal of developing a fully integrated four-dimensional digital Earth to fully understand Earth's dynamic system evolution.EarthRates RCN will build on recent activities of the communities and facilitate efforts to bring these groups together to 1) hold workshops, 2) develop working groups, 3) provide training opportunities to build a future workforce, 4) launch data mobilization campaigns, 5) strengthen community ties, 6) discover new partners and opportunities, 7) promote with social media and strong web presence (such as maintaining the development of a 'Broader Impacts Clearinghouse', extending outreach opportunities with Flyover Country mobile app, and increasing efforts to recruit, retain, and advance members of underrepresented groups), and 8) integrate efforts to build research capacity in the sedimentary crust by exposing and visualizing data from EarthRate's community data repositories. This project will create a stronger scientific infrastructure, leveraging funds already spent by NSF to further build the community that is critical to understanding Earth's past and future states.