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 CURRICULUMFocused 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, in-class activities

• Rupturing Continental Lithosphere – 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

Two-weeks of curriculum per area but all pieces also stand alone

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 2012One and three quarter days32 attendees2 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)

EC3—Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges of field data collection, management, and

integration

Steering Committee Membership: Richard Allmendinger, Cornell U; Jim Bowring, College of Charleston; Marjorie Chan, U of Utah; Amy Ellwein, Rocky Mountain Bio Lab; Yolanda Gil, U of Southern CA; Paul Harnik, Franklin and Marshall College; Eric Kirby, Penn State U; Ali Kooshesh, Sonoma State U; Matty Mookerjee, Sonoma State U; Rick Morrison, 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 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

Initiate relationships and collaborations between field-based

geoscientists and computer scientists

Why Concentrate on Field-based disciplines of the Geosciences?

Common set of challenges with regards to digitizing our data and making those data available through community databases.

Fieldwork provides essential information about the long-term history of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and tectonic cycles.

There is no better place to have these conversations than in the field

Summer 2014 field trip: Yosemite/Owen’s Valley, Aug 4th-8th

Summer 2015 field trip: TBA

Applications to participate in fieldtrips: Form available at: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/m/mookerje/EC3.html e-mail applications to matty.mookerjee@sonoma.edu

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)

The Lithosphere (and below)Focused crustal studiesLower 48 and Alaska

EarthCube and cyberinfrastructure

A repurposed TA backbone

Plate Interior Observatory

THE INTEGRATED EARTH (or at least our part of it)

Macrostrat 1.0 and Digital Crust Project

CUAHSI

NCED

Full integration of geology, geophysics, geodesy, paleogeodesy, geodynamics, geo-thermo-chronand 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

Focus the Earth(tele)Scope

Geo-thermochron; cosmogenics

SAFOD

Geologic time series of uplift, erosion, burial at the TA spacing [Macrostrat v. 2.0]

paleoelevation

Novel use of seismologic data

Granularize, broaden, infillEarthScope 1.0