Collaborative Workshop: An Internet Resource for Integrating Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Mapping with On-line Earth Science Databases

合作研讨会：整合板块构造和古地理制图与在线地球科学数据库的因特网资源。1141839布拉德利Sageman，西北大学？这个研讨会将开始开发一个社区范围的、基于网络的资源的过程，该资源讲述地球的故事，并为地球科学界提供一个研究工具，研究人员可以使用该工具来“了解他们的数据如何适合”地球系统演化的宏大故事。研讨会参与者将讨论如何建立这样一个动态的互联网资源。研讨会的重点是创建一个互联网资源，将板块构造、古地理和古气候制图与现有和未来潜在的在线地球科学数据库（例如，古生物学数据库、GeoStratSys、COSUNA数据库、PALGONODATA [孢粉学]、USGS矿物数据库、GlobalGeology等）。这样一个系统将提供科学上准确的、公众可访问的大陆和海洋盆地变化构造的地图，可以追溯到过去（约10亿年）。地球板块构造史提供了更好地了解生命演化、全球气候从冰室向热室条件的转变、海洋环流和化学变化以及地球陆地表面的重塑所需的时空框架。 这将是第一次这样的努力，以发展一个社区范围的系统/网络，其中所有有关的分支学科可以参与和受益于其成果。 这是因为Chris Scotese在过去40年中通过与工业界的合作和NSF的部分支持开发了非专有的基于网络的古地理地图库。

Collaborative Workshop: An Internet Resource for Integrating Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Mapping with On-line Earth Science DatabasesScott Lidgard, Melanie Hopkins, Field Museum of Natural History?EAR-1141839Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University?EAR-1141841ABSTRACTThis workshop will begin the process of developing a community wide, web-based resource that tells Earth's story and provides the earth science community with a research tool that researchers can use to "see how their data fits" into the grand story of Earth System evolution. Workshop participants will discuss how to build such a dynamic internet resource. The focus of the workshop is to create an internet resource that integrates plate tectonic, paleogeographic and paleoclimatic mapping with existing and potential future on-line Earth Science databases (e.g., The Paleobiology Database, GeoStratSys, COSUNA database, PALYNODATA [palynology], USGS mineral database, GlobalGeology, and others). Such a system would provide scientifically-accurate, publicly accessible maps of the changing configuration of the continents and ocean basins back through time (~ 1 billion years). The plate tectonic history of the Earth provides the spatial-temporal framework required to better understand the evolution of life, the shift of global climate from Ice House to Hot House conditions, changes in the circulation and chemistry of the oceans, and the reshaping of the Earth's land surface. This will be the first such effort at developing a community-wide system/network in which all relevant subdisciplines can participate in and benefit from its results. This has come about because Chris Scotese freely contributes for use up front his non-proprietary web-based library of paleogeographic maps developed over the last 40 years through his work with industry and in part supported by NSF.