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状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，可以在其中定位对其性质和过去环境的测量。Macrostrat和StraboSpot是两个软件平台和数据系统，提供了追踪地壳岩石的工具。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)和测绘(空间背景下的岩石)整合到地壳的多尺度描述模型中。StraboSpot提供移动应用程序和工具来收集基于现场和样本的数据集，以及用于存储和访问这些数据集的数据系统。这两个平台在目标和功能上具有互补性：Macrostrat缺乏用户输入地质图和地层柱状图的有效工具，StraboSpot缺乏合成许多研究人员数据的框架。该项目将这两个数据系统结合起来，以建立面向用户的数据摄取和背景功能，使个别研究人员收集的数据有助于建立综合地壳模型。这样的综合结果将有助于建立一个可公开访问的数据框架，每年有数十万地质学家和爱好者使用该框架。Macrostrat和StraboSpot都是成熟的地球科学数据系统，每个系统都支持一个广泛的用户社区生态系统。Macrostrat通过将数百种孤立的地图出版物集成到一个统一的多比例尺产品中，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，同时保留以前未通过测绘管道传输的文档元素(例如照片、测量)。该项目通过建设从StraboSpot到Macrostrat的地质图、地层柱和地质横断面的数据管道，集成了这些数据系统。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复杂的地质框架联系起来，将利用地质实地研究的成果来制作多尺度的地球地壳框架模型。这一整合将解决地壳研究的基本数据限制，这限制了上层地壳在四个维度(3个空间维度和时间)上的特征，并影响了地质过程建模的有效性。这一奖项反映了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。

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.