Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Sustainable Open Science Tools to Democratize Use of 3D Geomaterial Data

合作研究：GEO OSE 第 2 轨：可持续开放科学工具使 3D 岩土材料数据的使用民主化

• 批准号: 2324786
• 负责人: Masa Prodanovic
• 金额: $ 117.58万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324786&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GEO; OSE; Track

The climate crisis and its human impact have created an urgent need to curate and analyze a wide range of geosciences data. Characterizing geomaterials in terms of their microstructural and transport properties is crucial for Earth system understanding and for sustainable resource management. The structure and composition of soil play a foundational role in plant, microbial, and agricultural ecosystems. Deeper below the soil, rock microstructure and mineral heterogeneity are critical to understanding fluid/solid reactions to improve groundwater resources management, carbon sequestration, rare-earth mineral recovery, and contaminant transport. Modern 3D imaging provides a window to the microstructure of soil and rocks; recent advances in machine learning and simulation can improve our understanding of how these materials influence the world around us. A wealth of volumetric datasets of geomaterials at different length scales are available, but most are not broadly accessible due to gaps in the infrastructure required to curate and analyze them. As computational and data workflows become increasingly complex, there is a clear need to develop and maintain reproducible and scalable open science infrastructure to support scientific communities. This project will create cloud-based open science tools for curation and analysis of geomaterial image data. The benefits will reach geoscientists as well as a wide-ranging community of scientists working on diverse porous materials. Developed modules will be directly applicable to materials science (solid foams), chemical engineering (fuel cells, electrodes), and medicine (bones, cell biology, micro-vascular networks). The tool suite will be deployed with corresponding training and educational materials through a repository, Digital Rocks Portal (DRP), which has curated data available for reuse. Resources will be open and modular so users can adapt and implement them in diverse computing environments. Analysis workflows will be tested using image data across multiple scales from an ocean drilling project (NSF award 2140397). Use cases will be redistributed among the wide community of users of the NSF-sponsored University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography facility (UTCT). Students and researchers working on this project will be exposed to interdisciplinary work combining geology, engineering, data curation and computer science. The DRP will continue to be used in courses at multiple universities, and the tools created will be published with digital object identifiers (DOIs) and presented at conferences and training events.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.

气候危机及其对人类的影响迫切需要对广泛的地学数据进行整理和分析。根据岩土材料的微观结构和运输特性确定其特征，对于了解地球系统和可持续资源管理至关重要。土壤的结构和组成在植物、微生物和农业生态系统中起着基础性作用。在土壤深处，岩石微结构和矿物非均质性对于理解流体/固体反应、改善地下水资源管理、碳固存、稀土矿物回收和污染物传输至关重要。现代3D成像为了解土壤和岩石的微观结构提供了一个窗口；机器学习和模拟方面的最新进展可以提高我们对这些材料如何影响我们周围世界的理解。现有不同长度尺度的大量岩土材料体积数据集，但由于管理和分析这些数据集所需的基础设施存在差距，大多数数据集并不能广泛获取。随着计算和数据工作流程变得越来越复杂，显然需要开发和维护可复制和可扩展的开放科学基础设施，以支持科学界。该项目将创建基于云的开放式科学工具，用于管理和分析地球材料图像数据。这些好处将惠及地球科学家以及致力于各种多孔材料的广泛科学家社区。开发的模块将直接应用于材料科学(固体泡沫)、化学工程(燃料电池、电极)和医学(骨骼、细胞生物学、微血管网络)。该工具套件将通过一个储存库--数字岩石门户网站(DRP)与相应的培训和教育材料一起部署，该储存库有可供重复使用的精选数据。资源将是开放和模块化的，因此用户可以在不同的计算环境中调整和实施它们。分析工作流程将使用来自海洋钻探项目(美国国家科学基金会奖2140397)的多个尺度的图像数据进行测试。用例将在NSF赞助的德克萨斯大学高分辨率X射线计算机断层扫描设备(UTCT)的广大用户社区中重新分配。从事这个项目的学生和研究人员将接触到结合地质学、工程学、数据管理和计算机科学的跨学科工作。DRP将继续用于多所大学的课程，创建的工具将与数字对象标识符(DOI)一起发布，并在会议和培训活动中展示。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。