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

协同研讨会：整合板块构造和古地理制图与在线地球科学数据库的互联网资源/ scott Lidgard， Melanie Hopkins, Field Museum of Natural History？bradley Sageman，西北大学？本次研讨会将开始开发一个社区范围的、基于网络的资源，讲述地球的故事，并为地球科学界提供一个研究工具，研究人员可以使用它来“查看他们的数据如何适应”地球系统进化的宏大故事。与会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的和潜在的未来在线地球科学数据库（例如，The Paleobiology Database, GeoStratSys, COSUNA Database， PALYNODATA[孢粉学]，USGS矿物数据库，GlobalGeology等）集成在一起。这样一个系统将提供科学上准确的、可公开访问的大陆和海洋盆地变化的地图，这些地图可以追溯到过去（约10亿年前）。地球板块构造史为更好地理解生命的进化、全球气候从“冰屋”到“热屋”的转变、海洋循环和化学的变化以及地球陆地表面的重塑提供了必要的时空框架。这将是第一次努力发展一个全社区的系统/网络，所有有关的分支学科都可以参与并从其成果中受益。这是因为Chris Scotese在过去的40年里通过与工业界的合作和部分NSF的支持，免费提供了他的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.