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: 1948926
• 负责人: John Williams
• 金额: $ 31.86万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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=1948926&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为物种如何适应（或无法适应）对巨大而快速的环境变化提供有用的见解。了解过去的全球变化必不可少的，从世界许多地方收集的许多科学家收集的许多个人记录的组装和分析。该项目将继续支持Neotoma古生物学数据库的支持和开发，该数据库是一种社区数据资源，专家贡献其数据，策划这些数据以满足社区标准，并自由访问和使用研究和教学中的数据。使用Neotoma资源的研究示例包括了解过去扩展的原因和后果，评估物种对伴随冰期年龄伴随的巨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通过使学生和教师直接访问研究质量数据并授权他们进行自己的攀岩和生物多样性动力学分析，从而促进新的教育和外展。这将有助于培训下一代科学劳动力，并具有地质和数据科学的交叉技能。Nootoma已成为古生态学，古气候学，宏观生态学，生物地理学和环境考古学的研究资源，并且数据量迅速增长，数据量，数据支持的类型，活跃的第三部分和外部研究的研究项目。将成千上万的站点级记录收集到高质量的全球规模，数据网络中需要大量努力。必须仔细检查数据集，统一的分类单元名称，更新年龄的模型以及量化的不确定性。 Neotoma将继续通过集中式基础设施和分布数据治理的模型来应对这些挑战。 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).网络基础结构的改进将包括：1）基于网络的散装元数据的基于网络的界面以及许多网站的数据，2）更好地支持标本级同位素测量值，3）更好地可视化和分析支持微生产生物种物种 - 环境 - 环境校准数据集，以及4）Neotsoman sobe of Neotsob of Neots of Neots of Neots of Neots of Neots of Neots of Neotseb of Neots of Neots of Neotseb of Neots of Neots of Neotseb of Neotseb of Neotseb。可持续性优先级包括：1）支持最近推出的非营利地球联盟基金会，以及2）一个研讨会，其中Neotoma和其他社区数据资源的领导者将接受建立战略可持续性计划的培训，学习财务工具，管理未来的工具，为未来计划，开发策略，以多元化的资金基础以及增强沟通能力。这些对新瘤的更新和改进将增强现有用户的现有数据资源，并将帮助早期职业研究人员，为此，数据可用性和数据科学培训可以打开新的职业途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估审查审查的审查标准来通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。

项目成果

Eric C. Grimm 1951–2020

埃里克·C·格林 1951 年至 2020 年

• DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00828-z
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Bradshaw, Richard H.;Styles, Bonnie;Giesecke, Thomas;Flantua, Suzette G.;Bittmann, Felix;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.

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

The EarthLife Consortium API: an extensible, open-source service for accessing fossil data and taxonomies from multiple community paleodata resources

EarthLife Consortium API：一种可扩展的开源服务，用于从多个社区古数据资源访问化石数据和分类法

• DOI: 10.21425/f5fbg50711
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers of Biogeography
• 作者: Uhen, Mark D.;Buckland, Philip I.;Goring, Simon J.;Jenkins, Julian P.;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.

Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data

Range Mapper：用于制作和使用晚第四纪开放古生态数据的交互式动画网络地图的适应性过程

• DOI: 10.5334/oq.114
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Open Quaternary
• 作者: George, Adrian K.;Roth, Robert E.;Widell, Sydney;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

• DOI: 10.1126/science.abg1685
• 发表时间: 2021-05-21
• 期刊: SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 56.9
• 作者: Mottl, Ondrej;Flantua, Suzette G. A.;Williams, John W.
• 通讯作者: Williams, John W.