Defining research and educational priorities in Near-Surface Geophysics: a workshop and survey in light of the Vision for NSF 2020-2030 Earth in Time report

定义近地表地球物理学的研究和教育优先事项：根据 NSF 2020-2030 年地球及时报告愿景举办的研讨会和调查

• 批准号: 2139353
• 负责人: Royce Hanson
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2139353&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Defining; research; educational; priorities; Near

Human society, and all life of Earth, depends on Earth’s “near-surface” environment. The soils, water, ground water, microbes, and rock provide resources, allow construction, and shape local environments and their resilience. This is the locus of diverse natural hazards, such as landslides, volcanic hazards, earthquakes, and floods, and persistent soil and water pollution. Geoscientists have recently developed a diverse range of techniques to probe and study this environment in increasing detail, to help understand it and improve responses to these hazards and challenges. There is huge potential benefit in integrating these approaches and standardizing and sharing broadly and collectively the diverse data and observations of these studies—both for advancing science questions and for immediate societal uses and benefits, for example in planning and resilience to climate change. This proposal will survey the full near-surface research community and support a workshop to plan and develop this integration of approaches, data, and training for the future. This proposal will thus support a recommendation from the National Academies on future Earth science priorities for NSF outlined in the Earth-in Time consensus report.High-priority questions about the shallow subsurface (or uppermost ~100 m) of the Earth, where lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere meet, could be addressed with integrated near- surface geophysics instrumentation, data, and training. We propose to survey diverse scientists and bring them together in a town hall discussion and virtual workshop series to create and disseminate such an inventory and plan for future integration of diverse approaches and data, including around training to address scientific targets as well as societal needs and challenges while stressing diversity and equity broadly. The products of this work would help define the merits, and roadmap, of this integration, including the recommendation of the National Academies report Earth-in-Time for a near surface geophysical center to facilitate integrated near-surface studies. A goal of the workshop’s outcomes is to identify what the near-surface Earth Science community considers the highest-value scientific research targets as well as provide recommendations to improve education and outreach on near-surface geophysics topics to the geoscience community and related communities such as engineering and those involved in natural hazard mitigation.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.

人类社会和地球上的所有生命都依赖于地球的“近地表”环境。土壤，水，地下水，微生物和岩石提供资源，允许建筑，塑造当地环境及其恢复力。这是各种自然灾害的发生地，如滑坡、火山灾害、地震和洪水，以及持续的土壤和水污染。地球科学家最近开发了各种各样的技术来探测和研究这种环境，以帮助了解它并改善对这些灾害和挑战的反应。整合这些方法并将这些研究的各种数据和观察结果标准化和广泛共享具有巨大的潜在利益，既可以促进科学问题，也可以直接用于社会用途和利益，例如规划和适应气候变化。 该提案将调查整个近地表研究界，并支持一个讲习班，以规划和发展未来的方法，数据和培训的整合。因此，该提案将支持美国国家科学院在《地球时间共识》报告中概述的NSF未来地球科学优先事项的建议。关于地球浅层地下（或最上层~100 m）的高优先级问题，岩石圈、水圈、生物圈和大气层交汇处，可以通过集成的近地表地球物理学仪器、数据和培训来解决。我们建议对不同的科学家进行调查，并将他们聚集在一个市政厅讨论会和虚拟研讨会系列中，以创建和传播这样一个清单，并计划未来整合不同的方法和数据，包括围绕培训，以解决科学目标以及社会需求和挑战，同时广泛强调多样性和公平。这项工作的成果将有助于确定这种整合的优点和路线图，包括国家科学院报告《地球时间》中关于建立近地表地球物理中心以促进近地表综合研究的建议。讲习班成果的一个目标是确定近地表地球科学界认为最有价值的科学研究目标，并提出建议，以改善近地表地球科学的教育和宣传。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得支持的，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。