The LIBRE [Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor] Scientific Drilling Workshop: Drilling and Coring the Lake Izabal Basin

LIBRE（伊萨瓦尔湖盆地研究努力）科学钻探研讨会提供了一个机会，以促进和探索科学在两个广泛的和跨学科的领域有关伊萨瓦尔湖盆地（LIB）位于沿着危地马拉的北美板块南部边界。首先，盆地形成沿着一个断层类似于圣安德烈亚斯断层在加州。尽管科学界做出了重大努力来了解这种断层破裂并造成重大结构破坏和人员伤亡的可能性，但仍然有一些基本的科学问题尚未解决。这个研讨会有助于科学专家聚集在一起讨论目前的知识和这个板块边界的剩余未解决的问题。其次，钻探盆地中的沉积物将提供机会来回答与热带地区100万年来的气候、生物、生态和火山变化有关的问题。该研讨会召集来自世界各地的专家讨论这些研究工作，并建议一项科学计划，为地球科学和社会做出重大贡献。LIBRE（伊萨瓦尔湖盆地研究努力）科学钻探研讨会为科学家和学生提供了一个论坛，讨论伊萨瓦尔湖盆地（LIB）钻探和取芯的科学重要性和社会意义，LIB是一个活跃的拉分盆地，沿沿着北美和加勒比板块边界发展。钻探板块边界的北方断层，并从LIB的厚沉积盖层中收集岩心，可以提高对区域构造和相关地质灾害的认识，这些地质灾害沿着走滑板块边界;古气候和热带气候变化对多个冰川-间冰期循环的反馈;相关的古生态和古生物变化;以及与中美洲火山弧相关的地质灾害。此外，关于气候、生物学、生态学和火山学的讨论可以导致发展与热带生态系统对环境变化的反应有关的具体科学问题。该研讨会的资金确保来自地球科学和早期职业科学家通常被排除在外的群体的学生可以参加研讨会并参与讨论。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The LIBRE (Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor) Scientific Drilling Workshop provides the opportunity to promote and explore science in two broad and interdisciplinary fields regarding Lake Izabal Basin (LIB) located along the southern border of the North American Plate in Guatemala. First, the basin formed along a fault analogous to the San Andreas Fault in California. Despite significant scientific efforts to understand the likelihood of such faults to rupture and cause significant structural damage and loss of human life, there are still fundamental scientific questions that remain unsolved. This workshop facilitates science experts coming together to discuss current knowledge and remaining unsolved questions of this plate boundary. Second, drilling the sediments in the basin would provide the opportunity to answer questions related to climatic, biologic, ecologic, and volcanic changes in the tropics for 1 million years. The workshop convenes experts from around the world to discuss these research endeavors and to recommend a scientific plan that results in significant contributions to the Earth Sciences and society. The LIBRE (Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor) Scientific Drilling Workshop provides a forum for scientists and students to discuss the scientific importance and societal significance of drilling and coring the Lake Izabal Basin (LIB), an active pull-apart basin that developed along the North American and Caribbean plate boundary. Drilling the northern fault of the plate boundary and collecting cores from the thick sedimentary cover in the LIB can improve understanding of regional tectonics and associated geohazards along strike-slip plate boundaries; paleoclimate and tropical feedback on climate change across multiple glacial-interglacial cycles; associated paleoecological and paleobiological changes; and geohazards associated to the Central American Volcanic Arc. Further, discussions on climate, biology, ecology, and volcanology can lead to development of specific scientific questions related to the response of tropical ecosystems to environmental changes. Funds for the workshop ensure that students from groups typically excluded from geosciences and early career scientists can attend the workshop and participate in the discussions.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.