Tephra Workshop 2020

这次研讨会将汇集来自多个学科的国际专家社区，就2014年和2017年的Tephra研讨会的成果和建议采取行动，并在Tephra研究中为基于网络的工具和技术的实施和使用提供种子。Tephra研究涉及一种独特的火山产物，有助于研究人员了解火山行为、过去的喷发以及火山对气候和环境的影响。它们为地质和史前人类事件提供了时间标记。讲习班和后续活动将有助于为古气候学家、考古学家和其他研究环境变化及其对社会的影响的人提供信息，并将为持续评价被广泛用于确定气候和环境转变日期的盖夫拉层提供工具。这些努力的更广泛影响包括更多地获得广泛科学界的信息，以及不同研究人员之间的合作和交流。这50名研究人员将包括来自地球科学中代表性不足群体的参与者。研究人员打算在2019年至2021年举办一系列有重点的国际Tephra研讨会，目标是：(1)发表一份共识文件，以引起对需求的关注，并制定一项协调计划，以创建跨学科的可比数据集；(2)多种开放获取产品，例如，最佳实践模板、具有面向最终用户的最低所需数据集的数据收集和处理模板，以及(3)数据库和已建立的数据处理工具/代码/软件的整理。这些产品与对Tephra感兴趣的社区的未来方向相关联。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop will bring together an international community of experts from multiple disciplines to take action on the outcomes and recommendations from Tephra workshops in 2014 and 2017, and seed the implementation and use of cyber based tools and technologies in tephra studies. Tephra studies relate a unique volcanic product that helps researchers to understand volcanic behavior, past eruptions, and the effects of volcanoes on climate and the environment. They provide time markers for geologic and prehistoric human events. The workshop and follow on activities will be useful to provide information for paleoclimatologists, archeologists and others who study environmental change and its impacts on society, and will provide tools for consistent evaluation of tephra layers, which are used extensively to date climatological and environmental transitions. The Broader Impacts of these efforts include the increased information access to a broad scientific community, and collaboration and communication between diverse researchers. The 50 researchers will include participants from under-represented groups in the geosciences.The researchers intend to hold a series of focused, international tephra workshops in 2019 to 2021.The goals are to produce: (1) publication of a consensus paper to draw attention to the demand, and to develop a coordination plan for creating comparable datasets across disciplines, (2) multiple open access products, for example, best practice templates, data collection and processing templates with end-user oriented minimum sets of required data, and (3) collation of databases and already built tools/code/software for data processing. These products are linked to future directions for the communities interested in tephra.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.