Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TANGO (A probabilistic framework for assessing polar wander – Constraining paleolongitude in deep time)
Période du rapport: 2021-08-01 au 2023-07-31
- five published papers of new work (Geophysical Research Letters, Computers & Geosciences, JGR: Solid Earth, Earth-Science Reviews);
- three published software packages;
- three papers in preparation;
- one article featured as an Editor’s Highlight in JGR: Solid Earth, which has also been published on Eos.org;
- one invited talk at the EGU General Assembly 2023;
- two sessions convened at EGU 2024 and AGU 2023;
- one research visit to the University of California, Berkeley, and another to Utrecht University in the Netherlands;
- two blog posts (EGU and IAGA).
The project aimed to provide open access to research data and to make research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). TANGO's main research output was twofold: computer software and technical research outputs, including publications. The research data and the publications from the TANGO project were deposited on the Zenodo platform, an EU-supported portal for big data management with extended digital library capabilities for open access and open data. More specifically, the research data and publications are located on the Zenodo-curated OpenAIRE platform (https://www.openaire.eu/) a major EC-supported initiative for fostering open science in Europe. A Zenodo Community has been created for the project (https://zenodo.org/communities/tango/) where all source code and documents are, and will continue to be, accessible through a single collection. The community is already active and is being updated and enriched with standard Zenodo metadata, including the Grant Number (101025975) and the Project Acronym (TANGO).
The ability to generate high-resolution APWPs presents exciting new opportunities. Full tectonic plate motions (i.e. including longitude) from paleomagnetic data have long been considered an alluring but ultimately intractable problem. Paleomagnetic Euler pole (PEP) analysis presented a unique means to recover such information, but the feasibility of the methodology in light of the noise accompanying paleomagnetic data cast doubts on its fidelity. By developing an unsupervised learning method for PEP analysis, the tools here presented mark an important step forward. Consequently, a reinvigorated paleomagnetic Euler pole analysis has shown that it can retrieve paleo-kinematic information from assemblies of paleomagnetic data with sufficiently high resolution. While conventionally constructed APWPs cannot meet these requirements, this new framework may provide APWPs that can.
The project aimed to provide open access to research outputs and to make research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). In accordance, the open software and the scientific outputs from the TANGO project were deposited on the Zenodo platform, curated by the OpenAIRE platform (https://zenodo.org/communities/tango/).
The expertise of the contributors and the research design have granted the researcher valuable insights and expertise in paleomagnetic data analysis, machine learning, and mantle dynamics. An outstanding aspect of this project is the extensive network of collaborators that has been fostered. The scientific collaborations established during this fellowship contribute to its enduring legacy and strength.