Tephra Workshop 2020

本次研讨会将汇集来自多个学科的国际专家，就2014年和2017年Tephra研讨会的成果和建议采取行动，并为在Tephra研究中实施和使用基于网络的工具和技术提供种子。Tephra的研究涉及一种独特的火山产物，可以帮助研究人员了解火山的行为、过去的喷发以及火山对气候和环境的影响。它们为地质和史前人类活动提供了时间标记。研讨会和后续活动将为古气候学家、考古学家和其他研究环境变化及其对社会影响的人提供有用的信息，并将为一致评估热层提供工具，这些热层被广泛用于确定气候和环境变化的年代。这些努力的更广泛的影响包括增加对广泛的科学界的信息获取，以及不同研究人员之间的合作和交流。这50名研究人员将包括来自地球科学中代表性不足的群体的参与者。研究人员打算在2019年至2021年期间举办一系列重点关注的国际麻药研讨会。目标是产生：(1)发表共识论文以引起对需求的关注，并制定跨学科创建可比较数据集的协调计划；(2)多种开放获取产品，例如最佳实践模板、数据收集和处理模板，具有面向最终用户的最小所需数据集；(3)整理数据库和已构建的数据处理工具/代码/软件。这些产品与对麻风感兴趣的社区的未来方向有关。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop will bring together an international community of experts from multiple disciplines to take action on the outcomes and recommendations from Tephra workshops in 2014 and 2017, and seed the implementation and use of cyber based tools and technologies in tephra studies. Tephra studies relate a unique volcanic product that helps researchers to understand volcanic behavior, past eruptions, and the effects of volcanoes on climate and the environment. They provide time markers for geologic and prehistoric human events. The workshop and follow on activities will be useful to provide information for paleoclimatologists, archeologists and others who study environmental change and its impacts on society, and will provide tools for consistent evaluation of tephra layers, which are used extensively to date climatological and environmental transitions. The Broader Impacts of these efforts include the increased information access to a broad scientific community, and collaboration and communication between diverse researchers. The 50 researchers will include participants from under-represented groups in the geosciences.The researchers intend to hold a series of focused, international tephra workshops in 2019 to 2021.The goals are to produce: (1) publication of a consensus paper to draw attention to the demand, and to develop a coordination plan for creating comparable datasets across disciplines, (2) multiple open access products, for example, best practice templates, data collection and processing templates with end-user oriented minimum sets of required data, and (3) collation of databases and already built tools/code/software for data processing. These products are linked to future directions for the communities interested in tephra.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.