Engaging the Sedimentary Geology Community in EarthCube (Workshop)

建议举办一个研讨会，以确定和阐明网络基础设施（CI）的需求和潜在的应用在广泛的科学领域，包括沉积地质学。这项工作的目的是在不同的沉积地质学社区（SGC）内建立关于地球立方体工作的共识。地球地质学的重点是形成、塑造和影响地球沉积地壳的过程，以及碳氢化合物、煤和水等关键资源的分布。这个团体研究的沉积记录是地球过去地表过程、气候、海洋和生物圈的档案。SGC收集了大量的定性和定量数据，这些数据在跨越13个数量级的空间尺度上表征了沉积岩的各种属性。大多数数据是基于物理样本;有些是连续的。基于这些数据的衍生产品已经发布，但数据本身通常不会存档或随时提供给其他研究人员。该领域研讨会将集中于：1）定义SGC数据和工作流程的当前性质，包括共享和使用该数据的挑战和障碍; 2）确定哪些类型的数据、存储库、软件和工具（分析、建模和可视化）将在SGC内实现基于数据的“大科学”合作; 3）评估挖掘遗留数据的潜在重要性; 4）确定SGC将在理想CI下攻击的科学挑战的例子; 5）评估EarthCube，如果填充了上述项目中阐述的数据和工具类型，将如何影响SGC的教学。研讨会的总体成果将是一份提交给NSF的报告，该报告定义了SGC与EarthCube集成必须遇到的问题和挑战。沉积岩是地球表面最丰富的岩石类型，具有丰富的地质数据和历史。该提案的智力价值在于，总结成果将为SGC提供关于地球系统地球立方体框架沉积数据的优先级和使用的指导。拟议研讨会的更广泛影响是将SGC与NSF最重要的网络基础设施倡议之一整合起来，整合地球科学领域的信息和数据。

A workshop is proposed to identify and articulate the cyberinfrastructure (CI) needs andpotential applications in the broad scientific domain encompassing sedimentary geology. Theeffort is intended to build consensus within the diverse sedimentary geology community (SGC)with respect to the EarthCube effort. The SGC focuses on the processes that form, shape, andaffect Earth's sedimentary crust, and distribute key resources such as hydrocarbons, coal, andwater. The sedimentary records studied by this community are the archives of Earth's pastsurface processes, climates, oceans, and biosphere. The SGC collects a great diversity ofqualitative and quantitative data that characterizes diverse attributes of sedimentary rocks atspatial scales that span 13-orders of magnitude. Most data is based on physical samples; some iscontinuous. Derivative products based on the data are published, but the data itself are typicallynot archived or readily available to other researchers.The domain workshop will focus on: 1) defining the current nature of SGC data and workflows,including the challenges and impediments to sharing and using that data; 2) establish what typesof data, repositories, software, and tools (analytical, modeling, and visualization) would enablecommunity-based, 'big science' collaborations within the SGC; 3) evaluate the potentialimportance of mining legacy data; 4) identify examples of the kind of scientific challenges theSGC would attack given an ideal CI; and 5) evaluate how EarthCube, if populated with the typeof data and tools articulated in the above bullets, would impact the SGC's teaching. The overallproduct of the workshop will be a report to NSF that defines the issues and challenges that mustbe met for the integration of the SGC with EarthCube.Sedimentary rocks are the most abundant rock type on the surface of the Earth and are rich ingeologic data and history. The intellectual merit of the proposal is that the summary outcomeswill provide SGC guidance on the priorities and use of sedimentary data to the EarthCubeframework of Earth systems.The broader of impacts of the proposed workshop are to integrate SGC with one of the mostimportant cyberinfrastructure initiatives to NSF integrating information and data across thegeosciences.