Collaborative Research: EarthScope Facility Operation and Maintenance (FY2008-FY2013) (PBO/SAFOD)

组成地球观测设施的综合观测系统可用于解决所有尺度的基本问题。从活跃的地震成核带，到单个断层和火山，到板块边界的变形，再到大陆和行星的结构。EarthScope的数据将公开提供，以最大限度地促进国家和国际科学界的参与，并向学生和公众提供持续的教育推广。地球观测设备的智力价值来自于它与整个地球科学基础研究的支持的联系。通过雄心勃勃的数据收集计划和广泛的地理覆盖，地球观测设备将提供观测资源，以鼓励跨学科研究和激励下一代研究科学家。EarthScope的设计和实施计划是通过与科学和教育界广泛的、长达十年的接触制定的。通过无数的研讨会和工作组，研究界与联邦和州的合作伙伴一起，定义了地球科学下一步探索塑造大陆结构和演化的基本过程所需的数据和工具。随着MREFC支持的EarthScope设施建设阶段接近完成，对新的EarthScope数据的分析已经出现了令人兴奋的结果，证实了这一强大的新观测工具套件提供的增强分辨率。EarthScope将通过综合教育和推广计划以及在危害评估、土地利用和资源管理方面的应用来实现更广泛的影响。虽然“地球观测”是一个全国性的项目，但它通过与全国数百所大学、学校和组织的互动，在地方层面上运作和维护。随着EarthScope收集数据并使其可用，学生和公众将被介绍到关键的未解之谜的科学问题，以及他们所在地区或学科在理解北美大陆的演变和驱动变形和火山活动的活跃过程中所起的作用。提高对自然环境的了解是改善土地利用、环境无害化发展和抵御自然灾害能力的第一步。在3000多个地理位置上，广泛分布的EarthScope设施将吸引传统上代表性不足的群体，特别是学校资源不足的农村地区的学生和部落土地上的印第安人（将在部落土地上安装一些EarthScope站）。EarthScope将为学生和公众提供一个独特的机会，实时观察地质过程，并在一个学年的时间框架内测量地质变化。EarthScope为公众提供了科学如何进步的实际例子，因为他们看到了新数据的收集和新理论的形成和检验。

The integrated observing systems that comprise the EarthScope Facility can be used to address fundamental questions at all scales?from the active nucleation zone of earthquakes, to individual faults and volcanoes, to the deformation along the plate boundary, to the structure of the continent and planet. EarthScope data will be openly available to maximize participation from the national and international scientific community and to provide ongoing educational outreach to students and the public. The intellectual merit of the EarthScope Facility is derived from its link to the support of fundamental research throughout the earth sciences. Through an ambitious data collection scheme and broad geographic coverage, the EarthScope Facility will provide the observational resources to encourage cross-disciplinary investigations and stimulate the next generation of research scientists. The design and implementation plan for EarthScope was developed through extensive, decade-long engagement with the scientific and educational communities. Through numerous workshops and working groups, the research community, along with federal and state partners, defined the data and tools required for geoscience to take the next step in exploring the fundamental processes that shape the structure and evolution of our continents. As the MREFC- supported construction stage for the EarthScope Facility nears completion, exciting results are already emerging from the analysis of new EarthScope data, confirming the enhanced resolution provided by this powerful new suite of observational tools. The broader impacts of EarthScope will be achieved through an integrated education and outreach program and applications in hazard assessment, land use, and resource management. While EarthScope is a national program, it is being operated and maintained at local levels through interactions with hundreds of universities, schools, and organizations across the nation. As EarthScope collects data and makes it available, students and the public will be introduced to key unanswered scientific questions and the role that their region or discipline plays in understanding the evolution of the North American continent and the active processes driving deformation and volcanic activity. Improved understanding of the natural environment is the first step toward improved land use, environmentally sound development, and resiliency to natural hazards. With over 3,000 geographical locations, the broad distribution of EarthScope facilities will engage traditionally under-represented groups, particularly students in rural areas that have under-resourced schools and Native Americans on tribal lands (where some of the EarthScope stations will be installed). EarthScope will provide a unique opportunity for students and the public to observe geological processes in real time and to measure geological change within the time frame of an academic school year. EarthScope is providing the public with practical examples of how science advances, as they see new data being collected and watch new theories being formulated and tested.