Underpinning the next decade of geoscience research in Australia and facilitating international geoscience data integration and collaboration through the AuScope 2.0 investment.
Abstract
The recently released Decadal Plan for Geoscience, of the Australian Academy of Science, proposes that the coming decade will be one of major transition. Increasing pressure on the environment from human activity and changing resource and energy requirements will necessitate new innovative approaches to sustainable use of our earth resources. Geoscience data, research and the development of a predictive geoscience capability to support informed policy development, will be key to providing a solution to these "wicked problems".
Development of a predictive geoscience capability will require: 1) acquisition of new national geophysical, geospatial, geochemical, petrological, hydrogeological and atmospheric datasets; 2) delivery of these datasets as machine accessible FAIR data products; 3) integration of national datasets with international equivalents from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa; and 4) development of virtual research environments that link relevant tools online to data sources and various computational environments. To deliver this vision AuScope will build on its existing observational, data and computational infrastructure programs, in collaboration with partners at Australian universities, Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, state based GSOs, and other NCRIS capabilities such as ARDC and NCI, to deliver a downward looking telescope as envisaged in the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The downward looking telescope will involvedeployment of observational instrumentation to collect high spatial resolution data across a range of methodologies in order to characterise and image the entire Australian lithosphere. It will also establish a geochemical capability based on a collaborative array of new generation instruments providing mineral imaging and in situ geochemical analysis facilitating national geochemical-tomography surveys. The AuScope Virtual Research Environment will provide the datasets, analysis & simulation tools and compute to allow researchers to access and utilise these data. It is our hope that these distributed facilities will deliver the Australian node of a future global solid earth observational network, linking groups such as AuScope, EPOS, RDA, ESIP and EarthCube to support international collaboration on global-scale geoscientific challenges.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMIN21A..08R
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