Incorporating Quantitative Analysis and Digital Database Use in Structure and Tectonics Research and Teaching: Proposal for a Summer School

为了应对社会上与构造有关的挑战，下一代的专业地质学家必须比过去几代人在定量和计算方面有更好的知识。通过互联网可获得的数字地质数据的数量不断增加，诸如数字高程模型、地震数据、数字地质数据（例如，StraboSpot数字数据系统）等，正在改变科学在21世纪的世纪，定量技能对研究的各个方面都至关重要，数据处理的基本能力也是如此。 为了满足这一需求，我们需要开发高质量的定量推理，计算机建模，数据分析和数字制图教学材料。该补助金支持两个为期七天的暑期学校，将于2024年和2025年夏季授课。暑期学校将侧重于教授结构地质学和构造学的定量方法和计算技能。 目标受众是初级教员，因为教员的目标是“教教师”，尽管博士后研究员和高级研究生也将包括在内。 暑期学校提供的相同材料随后将在公开的互联网视频中播放，以进一步传播成果。 该提案旨在促进整个科学界参与科学界和整个社会正在发生的数字革命。 主要研究者和相关教师将在连续两个夏天提供实地课程，经过一个夏天的准备。 暑期学校第一年（2024年）将侧重于向量和线性代数，暑期学校第二年（2025年）将侧重于空间统计。 与会者将通过在加州东部的一个现场收集和分析自己的数据的教育活动，而不是被动地倾听来学习。 与会者将使用的移动的技术正在提高实地制图的效率，并将增进他们对如何最大限度地学习新的移动的方法和实地战略的知识，这些方法和战略将成为下一代专业地球科学家的标准。 将于下一个夏天举办的两次网络研讨会和录制的讲座视频将使材料在暑期学校参与者之外得到广泛传播。 该补助金还资助两名研究生成为这些暑期学校的助教，从而促进他们在与社会需求相关的重要STEM学科中的专业发展。  该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得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的支持。

Meeting society’s tectonics-related challenges will require that the next generation of professional geologist to be far more quantitatively and computationally literate than past generations. The ever-increasing amount of digital geologic data available via the internet, such as digital elevation models, earthquake data, digital geological data (e.g., StraboSpot digital data system), etc., is transforming the science. Quantitative skills are critical for all aspects of research in the 21st century, as is basic facility in data manipulation. To address this demand, we need to develop high-quality instructional material on quantitative reasoning, computer modeling, data analysis, and digital mapping. The grant supports two seven-day summer schools, to be taught in summer 2024 and 2025. The summer schools will focus on teaching quantitative methods and computing skills in structural geology and tectonics. The target audience are junior faculty, as the instructors aim to “teach the teachers”, although post-doctoral fellows and advanced graduate students will also be included. The same material presented in the summer schools will be subsequently covered in publicly available internet videos, to further disseminate the results. This proposal is aimed at facilitating participation, by an entire scientific community, in the digital revolution taking place in the sciences and throughout society. The principal investigator and associated faculty will offer field courses during two consecutive summers, following a summer of preparation. Summer School Year 1 (2024) will be focused on vector and linear algebra, and Summer School Year 2 (2025) will be focused on spatial statistics. Attendees will learn by doing, rather than by passively listening, with educational activities that involve collection and analysis of their own data at a field location in eastern California. The mobile technologies to be used by the participants are improving efficiencies for field mapping, and will enhance their knowledge of how to maximize the learning of new mobile methods and field strategies that will be the norm for the next generation of professional geoscientists. Two webinars that will run the following summer and videos of the recorded lectures will allow broad dissemination of the materials beyond the participants of the summer school. The grant also funds two graduate students to be teaching assistants for these summer schools, thus facilitating their professional development in an important STEM discipline relevant to societal needs.  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.