The LIBRE [Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor] Scientific Drilling Workshop: Drilling and Coring the Lake Izabal Basin

Izabal湖盆地研究奋进(LIBRE)科学钻探讲习班为促进和探索有关位于危地马拉北美板块南缘的Izabal湖盆地(LIB)的两个广泛的跨学科领域的科学提供了机会。首先，该盆地是沿着一条类似加州圣安德烈亚斯断层的断层形成的。尽管在了解此类断层破裂并造成重大结构破坏和生命损失的可能性方面做出了重大的科学努力，但仍有一些基本的科学问题尚未解决。这次研讨会促进了科学专家们聚集在一起，讨论关于这一板块边界的现有知识和尚未解决的问题。其次，在盆地中钻探沉积物将提供机会回答与100万年来热带气候、生物、生态和火山变化有关的问题。研讨会召集了来自世界各地的专家，讨论这些研究工作，并建议一项对地球科学和社会做出重大贡献的科学计划。Izabal湖盆地研究奋进科学钻探研讨会为科学家和学生提供了一个论坛，讨论在Izabal湖盆地(LIB)钻探和取芯的科学重要性和社会意义，LIB是一个沿着北美和加勒比板块边界发展的活跃拉分盆地。钻探板块边界的北部断层并从LIB厚厚的沉积盖层中收集岩心，可以增进对走滑板块边界的区域构造和相关地质灾害的了解；多个冰川-间冰期旋回对气候变化的古气候和热带反馈；相关的古生态和古生物变化；以及与中美洲火山弧有关的地质灾害。此外，关于气候、生物学、生态学和火山学的讨论可以导致与热带生态系统对环境变化的反应有关的具体科学问题的发展。研讨会的资金确保来自通常被排除在地球科学之外的群体和早期职业科学家的学生可以参加研讨会并参与讨论。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。

The LIBRE (Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor) Scientific Drilling Workshop provides the opportunity to promote and explore science in two broad and interdisciplinary fields regarding Lake Izabal Basin (LIB) located along the southern border of the North American Plate in Guatemala. First, the basin formed along a fault analogous to the San Andreas Fault in California. Despite significant scientific efforts to understand the likelihood of such faults to rupture and cause significant structural damage and loss of human life, there are still fundamental scientific questions that remain unsolved. This workshop facilitates science experts coming together to discuss current knowledge and remaining unsolved questions of this plate boundary. Second, drilling the sediments in the basin would provide the opportunity to answer questions related to climatic, biologic, ecologic, and volcanic changes in the tropics for 1 million years. The workshop convenes experts from around the world to discuss these research endeavors and to recommend a scientific plan that results in significant contributions to the Earth Sciences and society. The LIBRE (Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor) Scientific Drilling Workshop provides a forum for scientists and students to discuss the scientific importance and societal significance of drilling and coring the Lake Izabal Basin (LIB), an active pull-apart basin that developed along the North American and Caribbean plate boundary. Drilling the northern fault of the plate boundary and collecting cores from the thick sedimentary cover in the LIB can improve understanding of regional tectonics and associated geohazards along strike-slip plate boundaries; paleoclimate and tropical feedback on climate change across multiple glacial-interglacial cycles; associated paleoecological and paleobiological changes; and geohazards associated to the Central American Volcanic Arc. Further, discussions on climate, biology, ecology, and volcanology can lead to development of specific scientific questions related to the response of tropical ecosystems to environmental changes. Funds for the workshop ensure that students from groups typically excluded from geosciences and early career scientists can attend the workshop and participate in the discussions.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.