EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Advancing biogeoscience community standards and cyberinfrastructure via Critical Zone domain engagement in synthesis science

临界带（CZ）是地球近地表的可渗透层，从植被冠层的大气层到活跃循环的地下水的下边界。美国临界区观测站（CZO）计划最近有一个运动，以促进跨CZO合作，重点是微生物地球化学和相关的微生物生态学研究。该项目使CZ社区能够通过培训讲习班使用软件，并更好地使用CZ生物地球化学和微生物生态学数据。这些目标将通过一系列虚拟和面对面的研讨会来实现，在这些研讨会上，CZ科学家有机会学习如何使用新的网络基础设施产品，并利用它们来综合来自众多CZ站点的重要生物科学和微生物生态学数据。这项工作将同时支持制定社区主导的数据收集和共享标准。软件开发团队作为IA项目人员和合作者的直接参与将促进CZ社区成员使用新开发软件的培训。然后，CZ科学家将在一组现实生活中的用例中使用这些工具，以现有CZO数据的合成和协作设计的跨CZO生物地球化学和宏基因组样本收集和分析以及辅助测量的分析的形式。这项工作不仅将培训CZ科学家使用新出现的EC CI工具，还将征求社区对软件改进的意见，并确定进一步开发EarthCube CI的剩余差距和需求。该项目为EarthCube设想的全球分析和模拟能力奠定了基础，通过把临界区科学家们聚集在一起，关于培训，以测试现有的网络基础设施工具，包括涵盖各种规模的综合多参数数据集。该项目将通过EarthCube网络基础设施促进地球化学和宏基因组数据的共享、标准化、综合和分析，进一步改善关键区研究产品的获取，使更广泛的地球科学界能够影响EarthCube未来的活动和成果。这项工作将支持综合目前在美国和世界范围内的关键区域站点收集的广泛数据，并确定和填补关键数据空白。该项目将回答关键的土壤地球化学和微生物生态学问题，如1）测量和模拟土壤形成过程中磷的命运，以及基岩与粉尘输入对不同系统生态系统磷的相对作用，以及2）评估营养物质的可用性及其对微生物群落，生长速率和功能的影响，在不同的系统中。该项目还将利用临界区数据促进综合科学应用。该项目将通过有针对性的科学外联活动和各类科学家的参与，包括计算科学界和地球科学界之间的独特互动，促进对EarthCube和临界区观测站关键产品的广泛科学传播。将通过合作研究和综合文件及介绍来传播主要结果。该项目将通过有针对性地参加讲习班，促进早期职业研究人员的广泛能力建设。最后，项目研究结果和产品将用于通过地球立方体科学委员会和技术与建筑委员会的主要研究人员和合作者的活动，以及通过临界区科学家更广泛地参与地球立方体活动，为未来的地球立方体开发提供信息。

The Critical Zone (CZ) is the Earth's permeable near-surface layer from the atmosphere at the vegetation's canopy to the lower boundary of actively circulating groundwaters. There has been a recent movement in the US Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program to promote cross-CZO collaborations, with a major emphasis on biogeochemistry and related microbial ecology research. The project enable the CZ community to use software via training workshops, and better use CZ biogeochemistry and microbial ecology data. These objectives will be accomplished through a set of virtual and in-person workshops where CZ scientists have the opportunity to learn how to use the new cyberinfrastructure products, and use them to synthesize important biogeosciences and microbial ecology data from across numerous CZ sites. This effort will concurrently support the development of community-led standards for data collection and sharing. Direct involvement of software development teams as IA project personnel and collaborators will facilitate the training of members of the CZ community to use newly developed software. CZ scientists will then use these tools in a set of real-life use cases, in the form of synthesis of existing CZO data and analysis of collaboratively designed cross-CZO biogeochemical and metagenomic sample collection and analysis and ancillary measurements. This effort will not only train CZ scientists to use newly emerging EC CI tools, but also solicit community input on software improvements and identify remaining gaps and needs for further EarthCube CI development.This project lays the groundwork for the whole-earth analysis and simulation capability envisioned through EarthCube, by bringing critical zone scientists together with hands-on training to test available cyberinfrastructure tools with comprehensive multiparameter datasets spanning a wide range of scales. The project will further improve access to the products of critical zone research by promoting the sharing, standardization, synthesis and analysis of biogeochemical and metagenomic data via EarthCube cyberinfrastructure, enabling a broader array of geosciences communities to shape future EarthCube activities and outcomes. This effort will support synthesis of broad swaths of data currently being collected at critical zone sites in the US and worldwide, as well as identify and fill key data gaps. The project will answer key biogeochemistry and microbial ecology questions, such as 1) measuring and modeling the fate of phosphorus during soil formation, and the relative role of bedrock vs. dust inputs to ecosystem phosphorus across diverse systems, and 2) evaluating nutrient availability and its impacts on microbial communities, growth rates and functions, across diverse systems. This project will also facilitate integrative scientific applications using critical zone data. The project will engender broad scientific dissemination of key EarthCube and Critical Zone Observatory products through targeted scientific outreach activities and engagement of diverse types of scientists, including a unique interaction between the computational science and geoscience communities. Key findings will be communicated through collaborative research and synthesis papers and presentations. This project will contribute extensive capacity-building in early-career researchers through targeted workshop participation. Finally, project findings and products will be used to inform future EarthCube development through the activity of the PIs and collaborators in the EarthCube Science Committee and Technology and Architecture Committee, as well as through the broader engagement of critical zone scientists into earthcube activities.