Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research

合作研究：Neotoma 古生态学数据库，一个用于全球变化研究的多代理、国际、社区策划的数据资源

• 批准号: 1948579
• 负责人: Jessica Blois
• 金额: $ 6.16万
• 依托单位: University of California - Merced
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948579&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Neotoma; Paleoecology; Database

The recent geological record can offer useful insight into how species adapt (or fail to adapt) to large and rapid environmental change. Understanding past global changes necessitates the assembly and analysis of many individual records, collected by many scientists, from many parts of the world. This project will continue the support and development of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a community data resource in which experts contribute their data, curate these data to meet community standards, and freely access and use the data in research and teaching. Examples of research that uses the Neotoma resource include understanding the causes and consequences of past extinction, assessing the sensitivity of species to large environmental changes that accompanied past ice ages, and measuring how quickly species adapt to past rapid environmental changes. Neotoma’s open data access will also facilitate new forms of education and outreach, by giving students and teachers direct access to research-quality data and empowering them to run their own analyses of past climate and biodiversity dynamics. This will help train the next generation of the scientific workforce, with crossover skills in both geological and data sciences.Neotoma has become a research resource in paleoecology, paleoclimatology, macroecology, biogeography, and environmental archaeology, with rapid growth in data volume, kinds of data supported, and active third-party and externally-supported research projects. Gathering thousands of site-level records into high-quality, global-scale, data networks requires substantial effort. Datasets must be carefully checked, taxon names harmonized, age-depth models updated, and uncertainties quantified. Neotoma will continue to address these challenges through a model of centralized infrastructure and distributed data governance. Priorities for this project are: 1) establishing international coverage for data types and research communities that now have critical masses of trained data stewards and data volumes in North America (pollen, diatoms, ostracods, testate amoebae, vertebrates), and 2) establishing critical masses of data and data stewards for recently added data types (specimen-level stable isotopes, organic biomarkers). Cyberinfrastructure improvements will include: 1) a web-based interface for bulk-uploading metadata and data from many sites, 2) better support for specimen-level isotopic measurements, 3) better visualization and analytical support for micropaleontological species-environment calibration datasets, and 4) a rebuild of Neotoma’s home webpage. Sustainability priorities include: 1) support for the recently launched non-profit EarthLife Consortium Foundation, and 2) a workshop in which leaders from Neotoma and other community data resources will receive training in building strategic sustainability plans, learn tools to manage finances and plan for the future, develop strategies to diversify their funding base, and enhance communication skills. These updates and improvements to Neotoma will enhance the existing data resource for current users, and will help early-career researchers, for whom data availability and data-science training can open new career pathways.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.

最近的地质记录可以提供有用的见解，了解物种如何适应（或未能适应）大而快速的环境变化。 要了解过去的全球变化，就必须收集和分析许多科学家从世界许多地方收集的许多个别记录。该项目将继续支持和开发Neotoma古生态学数据库，这是一个社区数据资源，专家们可以在其中贡献他们的数据，管理这些数据以满足社区标准，并在研究和教学中免费访问和使用这些数据。使用Neotoma资源的研究示例包括了解过去灭绝的原因和后果、评估物种对过去冰河时期伴随的大环境变化的敏感性，以及测量物种适应过去快速环境变化的速度。Neotoma的开放数据访问还将促进新形式的教育和推广，让学生和教师直接访问研究质量的数据，并使他们能够对过去的气候和生物多样性动态进行自己的分析。Neotoma已经成为古生态学、古气候学、宏观生态学、古地理学和环境考古学的研究资源，数据量迅速增长，支持的数据种类不断增加，第三方和外部支持的研究项目也在活跃。将数千个站点级别的记录收集到高质量的全球规模的数据网络中需要大量的工作。必须仔细检查数据集，统一分类单元名称，更新年龄深度模型，量化不确定性。Neotoma将继续通过集中式基础设施和分布式数据治理的模式来应对这些挑战。该项目的优先事项是：1）建立数据类型和研究社区的国际覆盖范围，这些数据类型和研究社区目前在北美拥有足够数量的训练有素的数据管理员和数据量（花粉，硅藻，介形虫，有壳变形虫，脊椎动物），以及2）为最近增加的数据类型（生物水平稳定同位素，有机生物标志物）建立足够数量的数据和数据管理员。网络基础设施的改进将包括：1）一个基于网络的界面，用于批量上传来自许多网站的元数据和数据，2）更好地支持生物水平的同位素测量，3）更好地支持微体古生物物种环境校准数据集的可视化和分析，以及4）重建Neotoma的主页。可持续性优先事项包括：1）支持最近启动的非营利地球生命联盟基金会，2）一个研讨会，来自Neotoma和其他社区数据资源的领导人将接受制定战略可持续发展计划的培训，学习管理财务和规划未来的工具，制定战略以使其资金基础多样化，并提高沟通技能。Neotoma的这些更新和改进将为当前用户增强现有的数据资源，并将帮助早期职业研究人员，数据可用性和数据科学培训可以为他们打开新的职业道路。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics

通过将 aeDNA 与古生态信息学相结合来加强全球变化科学

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.016
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• 影响因子: 16.8
• 作者: Williams, John W.;Spanbauer, Trisha L.;Heintzman, Peter D.;Blois, Jessica;Capo, Eric;Goring, Simon J.;Monchamp, Marie-Eve;Parducci, Laura;Von Eggers, Jordan M.;Alsos, Inger Greve
• 通讯作者: Alsos, Inger Greve