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Geological and Paleoanthropological Data Harmonization Workshop

地质和古人类学数据协调研讨会

基本信息

批准号：
1740444
负责人：
Christopher Campisano
金额：
$ 5万
依托单位：
Arizona State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740444&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Geological Paleoanthropological Data Harmonization Workshop

项目摘要

Research findings from one project or site are usually more informative about underlying phenomena when they can be compared with data from other relevant research sites. To be meaningful, such comparisons may require shared vocabulary, methods, and data formats, in addition to collaboration across research groups. This field-based workshop will bring together geologists and paleoanthropologists to discuss best practices and protocols for comparing data across research sites, using several Pliocene and early Pleistocene hominin fossil locations in the Awash basin of Ethiopia. The workshop will also generate new research questions for future collaborative projects that span beyond individual project boundaries. Participants will include graduate students, early career scientists, international scholars, and groups underrepresented in STEM disciplines. A component of this workshop will contribute to the NSF-supported PaleoCore project by helping to synthesize and standardize geological mapping data and creating a template that can be used by any other geological project. This award is co-funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering.A major impediment to the study of human origins and evolution has been that field studies are often conducted within the bounds of spatially restricted project areas. These project area boundaries are rarely based on broader ecological or geological constraints, and these limitations impede the formulation of overarching research questions that are critical for understanding hominin evolution and its context over larger scales of time and space. For geologists, conducting inter- and intraregional comparisons can be challenging as they do not always have direct knowledge of information from adjacent research project areas boundaries across which outcrops are contiguous. As a result, researchers have not effectively and comprehensively addressed broader regional-scale research questions. This workshop reflects the idea that substantial progress could be made in understanding the geological context of human evolution through better communication, collaborative work, and transparent data sharing. No one location/research project in the lower Awash River valley preserves a complete and continuous sequence of Pliocene and early Pleistocene sediments. When combined, however, they encompass an impressive temporal and spatial coverage of early hominin habitats within a complex rifting environment. There is tremendous potential to use the combined record from these project areas to evaluate how rifting has evolved and to explore the interplay between climate, tectonics, hominin evolution, and paleoecology in the Afar. The workshop will also result in a report that discusses best practices for planning and conducting research across separate but related research sites.

当一个项目或站点的研究结果与其他相关研究站点的数据进行比较时，通常可以提供更多有关潜在现象的信息。为了有意义，除了研究小组之间的协作之外，这种比较可能需要共享词汇、方法和数据格式。这个实地研讨会将汇集地质学家和古人类学家，利用埃塞俄比亚阿瓦什盆地的几个上新世和早更新世人类化石地点，讨论比较不同研究地点数据的最佳实践和协议。该研讨会还将为未来的合作项目提出新的研究问题，超越单个项目的界限。参与者将包括研究生、早期职业科学家、国际学者以及 STEM 学科中代表性不足的群体。本次研讨会的一个组成部分将通过帮助综合和标准化地质测绘数据并创建可供任何其他地质项目使用的模板，为 NSF 支持的 PaleoCore 项目做出贡献。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。人类起源和进化研究的一个主要障碍是实地研究通常在空间有限的项目区域内进行。这些项目区域边界很少基于更广泛的生态或地质限制，这些限制阻碍了总体研究问题的制定，而这些问题对于理解人类进化及其在更大时间和空间范围内的背景至关重要。对于地质学家来说，进行区域间和区域内比较可能具有挑战性，因为他们并不总是直接了解露头相邻的相邻研究项目区域边界的信息。因此，研究人员未能有效、全面地解决更广泛的区域范围的研究问题。本次研讨会反映了这样的想法：通过更好的沟通、协作工作和透明的数据共享，可以在理解人类进化的地质背景方面取得实质性进展。阿瓦什河下游流域的任何地点/研究项目都没有保存完整且连续的上新世和早更新世沉积物序列。然而，当它们结合起来时，它们在复杂的裂谷环境中涵盖了早期人类栖息地的令人印象深刻的时间和空间覆盖范围。利用这些项目区域的综合记录来评估裂谷是如何演变的，并探索阿法尔地区气候、构造、古人类进化和古生态之间的相互作用，具有巨大的潜力。研讨会还将产生一份报告，讨论在独立但相关的研究地点规划和开展研究的最佳实践。