Coordination Funds

EarthShape优先计划定义了四个可测试的假设，重点是量化生物群对地球表面过程的影响。我们通过为跨学科研究创造一个独特的机会来做到这一点，该研究跨越了地球科学，生物学，地貌学和土壤科学之间的传统界限。这一协调项目提供了假设检验所需的行政骨干，并为德国未来的地球表面过程研究营造了跨学科的研究氛围。所涉及的挑战包括：a）维护和提供许多EarthShape子项目所需的基本仪器、钻探活动和数据集; B）协调智利偏远野外地区的野外工作、许可证和国际合作; c）确保非专业科学家的发展和流动、性别平等措施和项目会议; d）通过综合出版物整合项目。协调员和指导委员会确定了使地球形状项目成为成功的优先方案的关键目标，作为第二个三年期的重要组成部分。这些目标是从第一阶段研究中产生的，并通过对生物圈、地球物理学和浅层和深层地下关键区过程的新研究来补充其发现。特别是，地球形状的这一阶段包括在四个主要研究地点的更深临界区的协调钻井活动。我们还强调，我们要求小组考虑各个项目的基本要求，以顺利完成“地球形状”项目。这些要求包括：a）参与者需要解决原始EarthShape科学提案中概述的研究集群和时间尺度衔接问题; B）将来自不同学科的研究人员联系起来，以促进跨学科研究; c）参与者需要在（或非常接近）所有选定的重点研究领域，以便对不同项目的结果进行交叉比较和综合;智利科学界的参与。

The EarthShape priority program defines four testable hypotheses centered on quantifying the influence of biota on Earth surface processes. We do this by creating a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary research that spans traditional boundaries between the geosciences, biology, geomorphology, and soil science. This coordination project provides the administrative backbone required for hypothesis testing, and fostering an interdisciplinary research atmosphere for future Earth surface processes research in Germany. The challenges involved include: a) maintaining and providing essential instrumentation, drilling activities, and data sets required for many EarthShape subprojects; b) coordinating field work, permits, and international collaborations in remote field areas in Chile; c) ensuring the development and mobility of young-scientists, gender equality measures, and project meetings; and d) project integration through synthesis publications. Key goals to make the EarthShape project a successful Priority Program have been identified by the coordinators and steering committee as important ingredients for the second three-year phase. These goals have emerged from phase 1 research, and complement its findings with new studies of the biosphere, geophysics, and critical zone processes in the shallow and deeper subsurface. In particular, this phase of EarthShape includes a coordinated drilling campaign of the deeper critical zone in the four primary study sites. We also also emphasize essential requirements for individual projects that we request the panel consider for the successful completion of the EarthShape project. These requirements include: a) the need for participants to address the research clusters and timescale bridging that are outlined in the original EarthShape scientific proposal; b) linking of investigators from distinctly different disciplines to foster interdisciplinary research; c) the need for participants to work within (or very near) all selected focus study areas to enable a cross comparison and integration of results from different projects; and d) the involvement of the Chilean scientific community.