Collaborative Research: AGeS2 (Awards for Geochronology Student research) Program: Democratizing access to geochronology and promoting interdisciplinary science

地质年代学在地球科学研究中具有十分重要的意义。地球年代学数据需要定量解析地球科学固有的第四维时间，并且越来越需要进行现代、前沿、跨学科的研究。随着对地质年代学的需求不断增长，人们强烈要求扩大社区对地质年代学数据的获取，增强实验室应对这种压力的能力，并提高社区对如何产生和解释这些数据的认识。地质年代学学生研究奖（AGeS）项目为研究生提供机会，发展地质年代学项目的科学原理，然后为他们提供实际在实验室获取数据的实践经验，所有这些都是在地质年代学家的指导下进行的。该项目将把AGeS2发展成为一个更广泛的跨学科倡议，以进一步加强对地质年代学数据的获取，促进地质年代学培训，并激发新的协同科学。AGeS2的目标是：1)使地质年代学的获取民主化；2)教育地质年代学数据的用户；3)通过培养实验室和其他学科之间的新关系来促进协同科学；4)为数据用户和生产者都参与的项目提供战略性的、高质量的、具有科学价值的地质年代学数据。它将研究生地质年代学项目的年度奖励资金增加了一倍。与美国地质学会（GSA）的新伙伴关系将使这一更广泛的努力得到成功的管理。AGeS2将利用该项目受欢迎所带来的群体和社区建设的新机会，最大限度地提高AGeS2投资的教育和科学成果。这些活动将包括每年与age学生群体的定期电话会议，以及在全国GSA会议之前的两次age聚会。在典型的2年AGeS项目期间，将鼓励学生与实验室导师进行持续的互动，以进一步促进项目的成功。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Geochronology is profoundly important in Earth science research. Geochronology data are required to quantitatively resolve the 4th dimension of time inherent in Earth science, and are increasingly necessary to conduct modern, cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research. The growing geochronology need is accompanied by strong demands to broaden community access to geochronology data, enhance the ability of laboratories to meet this pressure, and increase community awareness of how these data are produced and interpreted. The AGeS (Awards for Geochronology Student research) program provides opportunities for graduate students to develop the scientific rationale for projects involving geochronology, and then provides them with hands-on experience actually acquiring data in labs, all while being mentored by geochronologists. This project will grow AGeS2 into a wider cross-disciplinary initiative to further enhance access to geochronology data, promote geochronology training, and stimulate new synergistic science. AGeS2 is aimed at 1) democratizing access to geochronology, 2) educating users of geochronology data, 3) promoting synergistic science by fostering new relationships between labs and other disciplines, and 4) providing strategic, high-quality, scientifically-valuable geochronology data for projects in which both users and producers of the data are intellectually engaged. It doubles the annual award funding for graduate student geochronology projects. A new partnership with the Geological Society of America (GSA) will allow successful management of this broader effort. AGeS2 will take advantage of new opportunities for cohort- and community building afforded by the program's popularity to maximize the educational and scientific outcomes of AGeS investments. These activities will include regular teleconferences with each year's AGeS student cohorts and two AGeS gatherings prior to the national GSA meeting. Ongoing student-lab-advisor interactions will be encouraged throughout the typical 2 year AGeS project duration to further promote project success.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.