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

临界区(CZ)是地球的可渗透近地表层，从植被冠层的大气到活跃循环的地下水的下部边界。美国临界区天文台(CZO)计划最近开展了一项运动，以促进CZO之间的合作，重点是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，并更好地利用CZ生物地球化学和微生物生态数据。这些目标将通过一系列虚拟和面对面的研讨会来实现，CZ的科学家有机会在其中学习如何使用新的网络基础设施产品，并使用它们来合成来自CZ众多站点的重要生物地理科学和微生物生态数据。这一努力将同时支持制定社区主导的数据收集和共享标准。作为IA项目人员和合作者的软件开发团队的直接参与将促进CZ社区成员使用新开发的软件的培训。然后，CZ的科学家将在一系列实际使用案例中使用这些工具，其形式是合成现有的CZO数据，分析合作设计的跨CZO生物地球化学和元基因组样本收集和分析以及辅助测量。这一努力不仅将培训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，并确定剩余的差距和进一步开发EarthCube CI的需求。该项目为通过EarthCube设想的全球分析和模拟能力奠定基础，将关键区科学家和实践培训聚集在一起，以测试具有广泛范围的全面多参数数据集的可用的网络基础设施工具。该项目将通过EarthCube网络基础设施促进生物地球化学和元基因组数据的共享、标准化、合成和分析，从而进一步改善对关键地带研究产品的获取，使更广泛的地球科学界能够塑造未来的EarthCube活动和成果。这一努力将支持合成目前在美国和世界各地关键区域地点收集的大量数据，以及识别和填补关键数据空白。该项目将回答关键的生物地球化学和微生物生态学问题，例如1)测量和模拟土壤形成过程中磷的去向，以及不同系统中基岩和灰尘输入对生态系统磷的相对作用，以及2)评估不同系统中养分的有效性及其对微生物群落、生长速度和功能的影响。该项目还将利用关键区域数据促进综合科学应用。该项目将通过有针对性的科学推广活动和不同类型的科学家的参与，包括计算科学界和地球科学界之间的独特互动，广泛传播关键的地球立方体和关键区域天文台产品。关键发现将通过合作研究和综合论文和演示文稿进行交流。该项目将通过有针对性的参加讲习班，促进职业生涯早期研究人员的广泛能力建设。最后，项目成果和产品将通过地球立方体科学委员会和技术与建筑委员会中的个人和合作者的活动，以及通过关键地带科学家更广泛地参与地球立方体活动，为未来地球立方体的发展提供信息。

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.