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The OneGeochemistry initiative as a CODATA Working Group; bringing together international geochemical data systems for easy data discovery
No full textAs geochemical data enable understanding of the Earth system and help to address critical societal issues the organisation thereof is important. Questions asked about processes affecting our environment and geological past become more complex and interdisciplinary in nature as well as multidimensional. To help answer these questions within the geochemistry research capabilities and data compilations are required to be comprehensive and both human and machine readable. Various international organisations are building infrastructure to capture and distribute geochemical data in a consistent manner adhering to the FAIR principles.
Since May 2021 the OneGeochemistry initiative has officially started efforts towards aligning these organisations’ data frameworks in order to standardise how geochemical data is reported around the globe. In November 2022 the OneGeochemistry initiative applied and was granted to become the OneGeochemistry CODATA Working Group as part of the International Science Councils Committee on Data. The initiative has now also been endorsed by the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry and the Working Group has been endorsed by the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines. Coordination of the OneGeochemistry initiative is funded through the WorldFAIR project where it is one of the work packages in the larger ‘WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’ project. A FAIR Implementation Profile analyses of the geochemistry communities of Australia (AusGeochem), USA (EarthChem, AstroMat) and Europe (GEOROC-DIGIS, EPOS-MSL, NFDI4EARTH) resulted in recognition of the need for common vocabularies for geochemistry data reporting as one of the most important actions to undertake towards international geochemistry data interoperability. A task adopted by EarthChem-DIGIS(GEOROC)-GFZ(DataSystems) collaboration and Research Vocabularies Australia.
Here we will present an overview of the current OneGeochemistry initiative and its preliminary outcomes with regards to FAIR Implementation Profiles and processes that will help enable geochemical data interoperability between various stakeholders
Basis for geochemistry data science applications; data standardisation through the OneGeochemistry initiative
No full textThe WorldFAIR project: enabling global interdisciplinary cooperation on integrating FAIR Data policy and practices in geochemistry with ten other disciplinary groups.
No full text‘WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’ is a European Commission funded project composed of 11 discipline and cross-discipline case studies drawn together by CODATA, the Committee on DATA of the International Science Councils Committee on DATA, and is supported by the Research Data Alliance. WorldFAIR is a diverse, global community effort that currently has 19 partners located in Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, representing organisations from research, government and industry. The 11 individual case studies are drawn from Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Geochemistry, Social Surveys, Population Health, Urban Health, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Oceans, Disaster Risk Reduction and Cultural Heritage. The WorldFAIR project aims to focus on the interoperability and reusability of research data products from both within and across disciplines by creating a Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF).
The foundation of the CDIF will be a series of FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) which will be used as a methodology for individual communities to express their FAIR practices and decisions for each of the 15 individual FAIR guiding principles.
As an example of how this will work, the WorldFAIR’s Geochemistry case study is led by OneGeochemistry, an international network of national geochemical data infrastructure organisations. Initially an informal network with representatives from AuScope (Australia), GEOROC (Germany), EPOS Multi-scale Laboratories (Europe), EarthChem (US) and AstroMaterials (US). With the advent of WorldFAIR, OneGeochemistry has formalised it’s governance structure and is now a CODATA Work Group. Over the life of WorldFAIR, OneGeochemistry will work towards developing a community prototype FAIR Implementation Profile(s) for individual geochemical techniques, including the minimum defined variables, through workshops and consultations, and subsequently be responsible for their communication, publication and dissemination. The Geochemistry case study will work closely with the Chemistry case study and leverage relevant chemical standards and vocabularies wherever possible.
Through the development of community lead FAIR Implementation Profile(s) for geochemistry within a global Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), WorldFAIR and OneGeochemistry are both advancing the adoption of the FAIR data principles within Geochemistry and simultaneously enabling interoperability of geochemical research data products across the other ten discipline case studies
WorldFAIR Project (MS6) Geochemistry Scientific Content Component
No full textWorldFAIR Milestone 6, reported here, specifies work done and being undertaken for Deliverable 5.2 (due month 20), ‘Geochemistry Methodology and Outreach’, which has the following description: “This deliverable will outline the methodology used to develop and update FIPs and promulgate knowledge of them, including publishers to ensure the quality, interoperability and reusability of data in publications”. As geochemical data is collected on a diversity of natural and synthetic samples (rocks, sediments, minerals, fossils, meteorites, cosmic dust, fluids, gases, etc), from the Earth or other planetary bodies, there is an incredible range of analytical instruments used and hundreds of analytical techniques applied. This results in a community with many subdisciplines that produce typically ‘long tail’ data - data that are highly specific and small in volume. The community and the data produced are heterogeneous and overlaps of common minimum variables are scarce. We conclude that developing a single FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) for all geochemical data will not be possible; rather, there will need to be multiple linked FIPs for geochemistry subdisciplines and at multiple levels of granularity. As a FIP is underpinned by FAIR Enabling Resources (FERs), many such FERs need to be publicly available or need to be published. By specifying any FER(s) that accompany each FAIR principle within the individual FIP, users of any geochemical dataset/database will have accurate documentation for each FAIR Principles, and thus enhance machine readability. This Milestone describes progress towards developing a methodology designed to assist in defining the individual FERs required to fully describe the minimum scientific and technical variables used to describe any geochemical analysis. These FERs will enable the generation of multiple FIPs, facilitating published results to be reproduced and shared globally with sufficient metadata to make any geochemical resource FAIR for both humans and machines. This Milestone report then discusses how the components of this methodology are being executed in the community, discusses resulting progress towards minimum common variables of samples, discusses how to make best practices for geochemical methods available online and specifies a set of vocabularies published to describe methodologies. Visit WorldFAIR online at http://worldfair-project.eu. WorldFAIR is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393
AuScope 10-Year Strategy 2020 - 2030
No full textIn 2018, AuScope’s Board of Directors initiated a process to develop this Strategy and the accompanying Investment Plan, through a process of deep engagement with our community in academia, government and industry.
That engagement has allowed us to understand their research needs better and to define our role in enabling them to advance the Australian geoscience research sector according to national needs. These documents culminate that very productive process.
AuScope is a research infrastructure provider, but we are also playing an increasingly important role in science leadership and facilitating research collaboration within our sector. From developing formal links with international geoscience infrastructures, such as the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), to developing standards
with Geoscience Australia and other NCRIS organisations including ARDC and NCI, our role has significantly evolved. In developing this Strategy, our community has endorsed this role, and we look forward to pursuing it over the coming decade.
This Strategy outlines the approach that AuScope will take to build the Downward Looking Telescope (DLT), a critical infrastructure system identified in the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap, the National Academy of Science’s Decadal Plan
for Australian Geoscience and most importantly, by the Australian geoscience research community. It also outlines the critical data, culture and collaboration needs surrounding the DLT that will act as the ‘glue’ to enable positively impactful geoscience.
When delivered, the DLT will change the way academic, government and industry geoscientists work in Australia, and it is inspiring to be part of that!We would like to acknowledge over 150 people representing the Australian geoscience community for contributing specialist and diverse knowledge to this 10-Year Strategy (Strategy) and the accompanying 5-Year Investment Plan (Investment Plan) during workshops, working groups and discussions between 2018 – 2020
AuScope 5-Year Investment Plan 2020 - 2025
No full textThis Investment Plan outlines new and continued investment needed in AuScope to enable geoscience research innovation in Australia across this decade.
We will use this document to guide operational and investment decisions in AuScope’s Downward Looking Telescope (DLT), a concept to describe a newly integrated and augmented capability of instruments, services, data and analytics.
The DLT will form a component of a number of national and global capabilities. Nationally, it will directly integrate with new and existing capabilities in earth, environment, computation and data sciences that are enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These include the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), the National Environmental Prediction System (NEPS), the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). It will also extend the national observing capacity of our partners at Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, and State and Territory Geological Surveys.
We will also work towards developing a new Global Research Infrastructure for geoscience, linking the DLT with the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), EarthCube, UNAVCO and other capabilities.We would like to acknowledge over 150 people representing the Australian geoscience community for contributing specialist and diverse knowledge to this 10-Year Strategy (Strategy) and the accompanying 5-Year Investment Plan (Investment Plan) during workshops, working groups and discussions between 2018 – 2020
Structural history of the Wyangala batholith.
No full textThe mid-Silurian, foliated Wyangala Batholith consists of 30 mainly S- and I-type plutons which intruded deformed Ordovician metasediments and volcaniclastics passively along pre-existing faults. Some plutons are displaced by faults, some have metamorphic aureoles which overprint faults and some post-date thrust faulting and S1 development in country rocks. U-Pb(SHRIMP) dating of zircon from these key plutons yields emplacement ages tightly grouped around 424Ma. Thus some key faults were active prior to 424Ma and others post 424Ma consistent with movement occurring from the Ordovician to the Carboniferous as demonstrated from fault map patterns
Structural and gravity modelling along two transects of the southern Wyangala Batholith, Molong Zone, Eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW
No full textNew structural and gravity analysis along two east-west transects across the southern Wyangala Batholith, one through Crookwell and the other through Gunning, will be compared and constrasted with the two east-west transects in the northern Wyangala Batholith. The results from all transects will facilitate reconstruction of the overall 3D shape of the Wyangala Batholith and improve our understanding of the emplacement history of plutons within this batholith
Geological maps and mapping: fun puzzles for all university students.
No full textUnderstanding geological maps forms an integral part of geoscience courses. First year engineering and science students at the UNSW revel in the challenges of unraveling geological maps in the laboratory. Student evaluations demonstrate students enjoy working in small groups on these exercises. Geoscience students in the process of building geological maps must integrate many of the diverse technical skills learnt within geology, as well as work cooperatively in diverse groups towards a common goal. Senior geoscience students thrive on building robust, four dimensional models through field studies. Students develop highly sought after graduate attributes through geological mapping
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