Workshop Proposal for Deep Time Earth-Life Observatories (DETELOs)

深空地球生命观测站(DETELO)的研讨会提案David Bottjer和Douglas Erwin在过去的几十年里，很明显，许多非常重要的科学问题最好由代表广泛专业知识的合作科学家团队来解决。事实上，在许多问题上取得进展是不可能的。在理解生命历史的关键转变方面取得的重大进展需要将古生物、地球化学、生物、地层和其他信息整合到一个时间和空间框架中。只有在这样的框架内，社区才能理解推动生物圈这种转变的过程。为了应对科学研究性质的这些变化，古生物学会建议与其他古生物团体一起举办一次研讨会，并辅之以一系列研究论坛，以发展深部时间地球-生命天文台(DETELOS)的概念，这是最近举办的一次关于古生物学未来研究方向的社区研讨会(FRDP)提出的一个新概念。在过去，综合数据集和相关分析的开发是以一种不协调的、往往是随意的方式进行的。因此，许多关键问题仍然没有得到解决，我们对生物多样性或多样性丧失的潜在过程知之甚少，部分原因是缺乏可检验的预测的量化模型。DETELO旨在以协调的方式解决这些问题。这个新的研讨会将有22人参加，定于2010年4月23日至25日在国家自然历史博物馆(史密森研究所)古生物部举行。研讨会的结果将在丹佛(2010年11月)和明尼阿波利斯(2011年10月)举行的美国地质学会年会上与更广泛的古生物界讨论。这项工作的最终成果将是一份10-20页的文件。

Workshop Proposal for Deep Time Earth-Life Observatories (DETELOs)David Bottjer and Douglas ErwinOver the past few decades it has become apparent that many very significant scientific problems are best addressed by teams of collaborating scientists representing a wide range of expertise. Indeed, progress in many issues can be achieved in no other way. Major advances in understanding critical transitions in the history of life require integration of paleontological, geochemical, biological, stratigraphic and other information into a temporal and spatial framework. Only within such a framework can the community understand the processes that have driven such transitions in the biosphere. In response to these changes in the nature of scientific inquiry, the Paleontological Society in conjunction with other paleontological groups, proposes to organize a workshop accompanied by a series of research forums to develop the concept of Deep Time Earth-Life Observatories (DETELOs), a new concept that emerged from a recent community workshop on Future Research Directions in Paleontology (FRDP). In the past, the development of integrated datasets and associated analyses has occurred in an uncoordinated and often haphazard fashion. As a result many critical questions remain unresolved, and we have little knowledge of the underlying process of biotic diversification or diversity loss, in part because of a lack of quantitative models with testable predictions. DETELOs are designed to address these problems in a coordinated fashion. This new workshop will include 22 participants, and is scheduled for 23-25 April, 2010 at the Department of Paleobiology of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). The results of the workshop will be discussed with the broader paleontological community at Geological Society of America Annual Meetings in Denver (November, 2010) and Minneapolis (October, 2011). The final product of this effort will be a document of 10- 20 pages.