EAGER: Normalizing Paleoclimate Variables to Support Data Intensive Science

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项目编号	1545762
	EAGER: Normalizing Paleoclimate Variables to Support Data Intensive Science
	Carrie Morrill
主持机构	University of Colorado at Boulder
项目开始年	2015
	2015-09-01
项目结束日期	2017-08-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	208409(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	This award uses funds, under the auspices of the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program, for a project aimed at making paleoclimate data more accessible to the wider science community and the interested public. The project will help the NSF coordinate and cooperate with the NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology (WDC-Paleo) in Boulder Colorado in an effort to create standards for describing variables in paleoclimate datasets and to use these standards to normalize variables in the WDC-Paleo archive. Such variables include depth, age, and proxy measurements used to infer past climate. To accomplish these goals, the researcher will draw upon the expertise of data generators and data scientists and will generate the first set of extensible controlled vocabularies that are consistent across multiple proxy types and that have the level of detail necessary to support data intensive science. The planned activities fit well into the potentially transformative, high risk, and exploratory nature of the EAGER programs because it is an untested path forward for the paleoclimatology community. Past related efforts were limited to sub-disciplines within paleoclimatology and, more importantly, not focused on creating vocabularies that are complete enough and precise enough to facilitate the sorts of data compilations that are now beginning to drive the field of paleoclimatology forward. This project is also inherently interdisciplinary, as it relies heavily on input from both the paleoclimate and the informatics communities. If successful, this project will have a large impact on the field of paleoclimatology by facilitating data-intensive analyses using large numbers of proxy datasets in new and transformative ways within the discipline and through collaboration with other disciplines. Furthermore, such an activity aids the NSF in complying with its federal requirements to aid access of scientific data from publicly-funded research by the wider science community and the interested public.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/68642
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Carrie Morrill.EAGER: Normalizing Paleoclimate Variables to Support Data Intensive Science.2015.