Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Building a multiscale community-led ecosystem for crustal geology through the integration of Macrostrat and StraboSpot

了解构成地壳的岩石的形式和结构为了解地球的演化提供了一个窗口，并提供了一个结构框架，以测量其属性和过去的环境。Macrostrat和StraboSpot是两个软件平台和数据系统，为跟踪地壳岩石提供工具。Macrostrat提供了一个广泛的框架，将地壳地层学（按年龄组织的岩石）和制图（空间背景下的岩石）纳入地壳的多尺度描述模型。StraboSpot提供移动的应用程序和工具来收集基于现场和样本的数据集，以及存储和访问它们的数据系统。这些平台在目标和功能上是互补的：Macrostrat缺乏有效的工具供用户输入地质图和地层柱，StraboSpot缺乏一个框架来综合来自许多研究人员的数据。该项目整合了两个数据系统，以建立面向用户的数据摄取和背景化功能，使个别研究人员收集的数据有助于综合地壳模型。这些综合结果将有助于建立一个可供公众查阅的数据框架，每年有数十万地质学家和爱好者使用，Macrostrat和StraboSpot是已建立的地球科学数据系统，每个系统都支持一个广泛的社区用户生态系统。Macrostrat通过将数百份独立的地图出版物整合到一个统一的多尺度产品中，彻底改变了地质图的数字交付。StraboSpot应用程序和数据基础设施支持捕获新的地质数据，同时保留文档元素（例如，照片、测量值），其先前未通过映射管线被携带。该项目通过建立从StraboSpot到Macrostrat的数据管道来整合这些数据系统，用于地质图，地层柱和地质横截面。为这些平台做出贡献的软件团队和方法也将被整合，从而提高效率并减少重复工作。将StraboSpot的数据捕获能力与Macrostrat的复杂地质框架相结合，将利用地质实地研究的成果制作地球地壳框架的多尺度模型。这一整合将解决地壳研究的基本数据局限性，这一局限性阻碍了在四维（3个空间维度和时间）中描述上地壳的特征，并影响了地质过程建模的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Understanding the form and structure of the rocks that make up the Earth’s crust provides a window into Earth’s evolution and a structural framework in which to situate measurements of its properties and past environment. Macrostrat and StraboSpot are two software platforms and data systems that provide tools for tracking crustal rocks. Macrostrat provides a broad framework in which to integrate crustal stratigraphy (rocks organized by age) and mapping (rocks in spatial context) into a multiscale descriptive model of the crust. StraboSpot provides mobile apps and tools to collect field- and sample-based datasets, and a data system in which to store and access them. The platforms are complementary in their aims and function: Macrostrat lacks effective tools for users to input geologic maps and stratigraphic columns, and StraboSpot lacks a framework for synthesizing data from many researchers. This project integrates the two data systems to build user-facing functionality for data ingestion and contextualization, allowing data collected by individual researchers to contribute to integrative crustal models. Such synthesized results will contribute to a publicly accessible data framework that is used by hundreds of thousands of geologists and enthusiasts each year.Macrostrat and StraboSpot are established geoscience data systems that each support a broad community ecosystem of users. Macrostrat has revolutionized the digital delivery of geologic maps by integrating hundreds of isolated map publications into a single harmonized multiscale product. The StraboSpot app and data infrastructure supports the capture of new geologic data while preserving documentation elements (e.g., photos, measurements) that have not been previously carried through the mapping pipeline. This project integrates these data systems by building data pipelines from StraboSpot to Macrostrat for geologic maps, stratigraphic columns, and geological cross-sections. The software teams and approaches that contribute to these platforms will also be integrated, increasing efficiency and reducing duplicate work. Linking the data-capture capabilities of StraboSpot with Macrostrat’s sophisticated geological framework will harness the output of geological field studies to produce multiscale models of Earth’s crustal framework. This integration will address the fundamental data limitation of crustal research, which inhibits characterizing the upper crust in four dimensions (3 spatial dimensions and time) and impacts the effectiveness of geological process modeling.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.