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... is the prima- tee looked to the community for its visions of the ry federal research agency funding Earth science research, infrastructure, partnerships, and training research, a foundation for fundamental scientific that are needed to sustain and grow vibrant Earth advances and for better understanding of the value science research. The committee received this input and relevance of Earth science to society.
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... The cycling of critical elements essential for geologic processes creates suitable conditions for life and provides the Understanding current and future changes to the ingredients for materials necessary for modern civilization, water cycle requires fundamental knowledge of the yet fundamental questions remain about how elements are hydro-terrestrial system and how the water cycle interacts transported within the Earth across a range of spatial and with other physical, biological, and chemical processes. temporal scales.
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... For EAR to respond to these priorities cle, and geohazards questions need high-resolution requires maintenance of the core disciplinary program and repeat survey data for change detection; subsurstrength, with a balance between both individual investi- face characterization of material properties; long-term gator-driven research and larger programs. observatories and experimental watersheds to inves tigate processes; precipitation and runoff monitoring stations; field instrumentation to document water and INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES solid fluxes and their drivers, and moisture, gas, and solute content; satellite-based monitoring data; the Future observations of the Earth and its constit- ability to quantify chronologies and rates over geologic uent materials will rely more than ever on integrat- time scales; and proxy measurements of past environing emerging technology, data analysis, and human mental conditions.
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... A fully colored box denotes a facility that provides essential capabilities needed to address a priority science question, while a colored circle denotes a facility that is relevant for a question. Determinations were made based on descriptions provided by the facilities, NSF award abstracts, and information taken from the community input questionnaire.
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... All of these initiatives originate from EAR re- Modest investment would enable advances in experisearch communities, and are based on either communi- mental rock and mineral physics and drive current and ty input responses, community white papers or reports, future EAR research. and/or presentations in public sessions.
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... Addressing the science priority questions will require advanced computational capabilities and new methods Recommendation: EAR should commit to longof data integration to enable high-resolution imaging of term funding that develops and sustains technical Earth structure and of Earth materials; innovative mod- staff capacity, stability, and competitiveness. Highly eling of physical, chemical, and biological processes; and better constraints on Earth's dynamical evolution.
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... Additionally, DOE invests significantly in infrastruc ture that supports Earth science research at synchrotron PARTNERSHIPS radiation facilities. EAR has established strong relationships across the GEO Directorate in order to meet the needs of ad- Recommendation: EAR should proactively partner vancing research across the Earth system, not just with- with other NSF divisions and other federal agenin Earth sciences.
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