Today’s Discussion
• Margins Curriculum Testing Opportunities (L. Lamb)
• EarthScope Geochronology Student Research and
Training Program (R. Flowers)
• Report out from Chicago 2012 Meeting (B. Tikoff)
• RCN (Research Coordination Network) for Field
Geology – EC3 (M. Mookerjee)
• Digital database for Structural Geology and
Tectonics (B. Tikoff)
• EarthScope Updates (B. Tikoff)
• Other announcements?
NEW CURRICULUM
Focused on recent results from the
MARGINS – GeoPRISMS Programs
Trying to get new science into the classroom in a
timely, easy-to-use way!!
Labs, exercises, lecture material, inclass activities
Two-weeks of curriculum per area but all
pieces also stand alone
• Rupturing Continental Lithosphere
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Review lecture on rifting and normal faults
Intro to using seismic data with in-class activities
GeoMapApp and bathymetry exercise
Isotasy and crustal thicknesses
Oblique spreading and Euler poles exercise using Matlab
• Seismogenic Zone Experiment
• Source to Sink-Sedimentary Processes
• Subduction Factory
NEED CLASSROOM TESTERS FOR THIS
FALL
Designed for upper-division structural
geology, tectonics, geophysics and
sed/strat classes
http://serc.carleton.edu/margins/test_curr.html
Structural Geology and Tectonics
Held in Chicago October 2012
One and three quarter days
32 attendees
2 NSF representatives
2 follow-up workshops
Action Items
• Workshop participants considered developing a database or data system
to be the highest priority and desired component of cyberinfrastructure
needed by the community (DEALT WITH: NOW AN EXISTING GRANT).
• Two followup workshops to help move this forward.
– First identified needs and pathway. In particular, the need for data reporting
standards was considered key.
– Second explored data reporting and description for shear zones as a way to
prototype the process.(DEALT WITH: Jean Crespi, Emily Peterman, Chris
Gerbi)
• RCN for field geologists and computer science (DEALT WITH: Matty
Mookerjee).
• EarthCube needs to recognize that component data systems are critical to
develop for communities that currently lack such systems. EarthCube
needs to support development of such systems or else the community has
no path or incentive to participate. (Funding is through Geoinformatics:
DeepDive can help with legacy data)
There is no better place Communication
to have these conversations
than in the field
EC3—Earth-Centered
for Cyberinfrastructure:
th
Challenges
of field
collection, management,
Summer
2014 field
trip: data
Yosemite/Owen’s
Valley, Aug 4th-8and
integration
Why Concentrate
on Field-based
disciplines
of the Geosciences?
Initiate relationships
and
collaborations
between
field-based
Common set of challenges with regards to
geoscientists
andmaking
computer
digitizing
our data and
those data
Summer 2015 field trip:scientists
TBA
available through community databases.
Applications to participate in fieldtrips:
Steering Committee Membership: Richard Allmendinger, Cornell U; Jim Bowring,
Form
availableMarjorie
at: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/m/mookerje/EC3.html
College
of Charleston;
Chan, U of Utah; Amy Ellwein, Rocky Mountain Bio
e-mail
applications
to CA;
matty.mookerjee@sonoma.edu
Lab; Yolanda
Gil,
U of Southern
Paul
Harnik, Franklin
and Marshall College; Eric
Fieldwork
provides
essential
information
Kirby, Penn State U; Ali Kooshesh, Sonoma State U; Matty Mookerjee, Sonoma State
long-term
history
of the
Earth’s
U; Rick about
Morrison,the
Comprehend
Systems Inc;
Terry Pavlis,
U of Texas,
El Paso; Shanan
Peters, U of Wisc, Madison; Bala Ravikumar, Sonoma State U; Paul Selden, U of
atmosphere, oceans, and tectonic cycles.
Kansas; Thomas Shipley, Temple U; Frank Spear, Rensselaer Poly. Inst; Basil Tikoff, U
of Wisc, Madison; Douglas Walker, U of Kansas; Mike Williams, U of Mass., Amherst
Digital Database
• GeoSPOT idea
• Future Activities (you are invited!)
– GSA Townhall (Saturday afternoon before mtg)
– AGU Townhall & AGU Field Cyberinfrastructure
Session
– Workshops for Faults, Fabrics, Migmatites/Plutons
– Field trials for 3 areas: Faults (Rio Grande), shear
zones (Seiad), and General (Inyo Mtns)
Spot Concept
EarthScope: Next Big Thing
• There will basically be writing calls for proposals
for post-SAGE/GAGE/EarthScope, post-2018, in
the next ~1.5 years.
• It is time to act towards the idea of a
geologic/crustal EarthScope, if we like this idea
• What this means: A workshop on or before
January 2015 ("4Byr Evolution of the North
American Continent: ideas for EarthScope
beyond 2018”??)
• Next slide was put together by geology working
group at 2013 EarthScope meeting (Frank
Pazzaglia chaired)
Focus the Earth(tele)Scope
EarthScope 1.0
The Lithosphere (and below)
Focused crustal studies
Lower 48 and Alaska
Granularize, broaden, infill
Macrostrat 1.0 and Digital Crust Project
CUAHSI
NCED
Novel use of seismologic data
EarthCube and cyberinfrastructure
A repurposed TA backbone
Plate Interior Observatory
Geo-thermochron; cosmogenics
paleoelevation
Geologic time series of uplift, erosion,
burial at the TA spacing [Macrostrat v. 2.0]
SAFOD
THE INTEGRATED EARTH (or at least our part of it)
Full integration of geology, geophysics, geodesy, paleogeodesy, geodynamics, geo-thermo-chron
and PBO H2O at the appropriate nested scale(s) needed to characterize the processes of interest
• Mineral physics, geochemistry, mineralogy
• Reflection seismology
• Crustal dynamics and fault physics
• Resources, Energy and Environment, Hazards; Align with USGS and State Survey missions
and the opportunities that it raises for E&O
• Community definition of facility footprint, instrument density, mobility, project scale
• “Elevation for the nation” backbone [FEMA need is 2 m resolution], NCALM as the FA;
existing State data, eg: PA at 3 m-resolution, can feed into the backbone