Workshop for Alaska EarthScope Synthesis and Future Opportunities in Canada with EON-ROSE: September 2019

阿拉斯加是一个主要的构造板块边界的所在地，创造了产生大量火山活动和频繁地震的条件。虽然在过去的25年里，在了解阿拉斯加的地质和构造历史方面已经取得了进展，但EarthScope可移动阵列和板块边界观测站为在限制板块边界的结构和动力学方面取得重大进展提供了机会。这个项目将支持一个讲习班，使来自不同学科的地球科学家聚集在一起，整合和综合地质学和地球物理学的信息，以提供对阿拉斯加构造的概括性了解。该项目将支持大约20名与会者参加这个讲习班，以及将在阿拉斯加锡特卡和加拿大怀特霍斯举行的两个补充讲习班，并将编写多篇综合或审查论文。该项目还将促进美国-加拿大研究网络的发展。这个项目将支持发展一个EarthScope综合讲习班，重点是阐明EarthScope在了解阿拉斯加构造方面所取得的成就。研讨会的主要目标是完成多篇合成论文。该讲习班将与美国地质学会彭罗斯会议和加拿大领导的地球系统观测网（地球系统观测网）讲习班一起举行，以最大限度地使地球观测界参与这些活动。研讨会议程包括大约一天的全体会议和EarthScope综合讨论小组，然后是从阿拉斯加的锡特卡到加拿大育空地区的怀特霍斯的实地考察，参加者将在会议地点之间进行交流。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。

Alaska is home to a major tectonic plate boundary, creating conditions that give rise to significant volcanic activity and frequent earthquakes. Though progress has been made in the last 25 years in understanding the geology and tectonic history of Alaska, the EarthScope Transportable Array and Plate Boundary Observatory provide the opportunity to make significant advances in constraining the structure and dynamics of the plate boundary. This project would support a workshop that would bring together Earth scientists from different disciplines to integrate and synthesize information from geology and geophysics to provide a synoptic understanding of tectonics in Alaska. The project would support approximately twenty participants to attend this workshop, as well as two complementary workshops to be held in Sitka, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Canada, and result in the development of multiple synthesis or review papers. The project would also foster United States - Canada research network development. This project would support the development of a EarthScope synthesis workshop focused on elucidating what EarthScope has accomplished in understanding the tectonics of Alaska. The primary workshop goal is for the development of multiple synthesis papers. The workshop will be held in conjunction with a Geological Society of America Penrose conference and a Canadian-lead EON-ROSE (Earth-System Observing Network - Reseau d'Observation du Systeme terrestrE) workshop, to maximize the participation of the EarthScope community in these activities. The workshop agenda includes approximately one day of plenary talks and EarthScope synthesis discussion groups followed by a field trip from Sitka, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, that takes participants between meeting venues.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.