219 Speed Dating!: Advice on Sampling and Applications Through the Lens of the Geochronologist (Posters)

Tuesday, 24 October 2017
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Halls 4EF

SPEED DATING! WHAT IS YOUR RATE? EARTHRATES: A NEW NSF FUNDED RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORK FOR LINKING SCALES ACROSS THE SEDIMENTARY CRUST AND OTHER RELATED PROJECTS SUPPORTING GEOCHRONOLOGY

Paper number: 219-2
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:05 AM – 9:10 AM

Authors

Abstract

A Research Coordination Network “EarthRates: Linking Scales Across the Sedimentary Crust” has recently been funded to provide the framework and opportunity to engage and connect the geochronology community and forge new collaborations in order to foster transdisciplinary research in Earth’s sedimentary crust. This RCN will bring together NSF-sponsored and community-driven entities such as the newly funded “Geochronology Frontier at the Laboratory-Cyberinformatics Interface” and “Linked Earth” projects, the Paleobiology Database, Neotoma, Macrostrat, EarthTime, EarthChem, Earth-Life Transitions, the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office, and Flyover Country, to strategize, leverage and build partnerships and collaborative efforts to enable the geoscientific community to address major grand challenges in Earth system science. These include: 1) how have the oceans, the Earth’s sedimentary crust, carbon sinks and soils, and life itself evolved together, and what does this tell us about the future trajectory of the integrated Earth-life system? And 2) what are the ranges of ecosystem response, modes of vulnerability, and resilience to change in different Earth-system states? By bringing these groups together and building stronger partnerships and alliances, we will move towards the goal of developing a fully integrated four-dimensional digital Earth to fully understand dynamic Earth system evolution. This will be dependent upon the geochronological community and linking users and providers.

EarthRates RCN will build on the recent activities of the STEPPE Office and facilitate efforts to bring these groups together to 1) hold workshops, 2) develop working groups, 3) provide training opportunities, 4) launch data mobilization campaigns, 5) strengthen community ties, 6) discover new partners and opportunities and 7) promote with social media (@EarthRates) and strong web presence (EarthRates.org) and integrate efforts to build research capacity in the sedimentary crust.

This project will create a stronger scientific infrastructure to further build the community that is critical to understanding Earth’s past and future states. EarthRates RCN will also support early career and scientists from underrepresented groups to broaden participation and help to train the future STEM workforce.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-303908

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