Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science to Advance the Geosciences: Introduction and Synthesis of a Special Collection of Commentary Articles

Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) science aims to enhance synthesis, increase resource efficiency, and create transferable knowledge. This article belongs to a collection of commentaries (Goldman et al., 2021) spanning geoscience on the state and future of Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) science. ICON-VGP is described here in the context of the core fields of geochemistry, volcanology and petrology. An important aspect to acknowledge here is that Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology (VGP) is an extremely broad field and encompasses both application areas and fundamental research questions that span investigations of mid-ocean ridge volcanoes to the creation of mountains. Integration within (VGP), and working across interdisciplinary research boundaries, have therefore emerged in response to specific applications and research goals. As an example, volcanology is strongly integrated with traditional subdisciplines (geology/ geochemistry/petrology) and allied fields (e.g., seismology, geodesy). However, traditional and structural definitions of volcanology and research modes hinder substantive integration, and integration is largely on the level of individual systems/specific challenges and not at a broader scale. The need for moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries is only now being recognized and these crossovers are being explicitly defined as volcanohydrology, archeological volcanology, etc. (e.g., Elson & Ort, 2018).

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Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Arora

Currin

Dwivedi

et al. 2022

“…This article discusses the Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) principles in hydrology with respect to: field, experimental, remote sensing, and real‐time data research and application (Section 2); Machine learning (ML) for multiscale hydrological modeling (Section 3); and Inclusive, equitable, and accessible science: Involvement, challenges, and support of early career, marginalized racial groups, women, Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ+), and/or disabled researchers (Section 4); The choice of the three sections is based on a collection of commentaries spanning geoscience on the state and future of Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) science (Goldman, Emani, Pérez‐Angel, Rodríguez‐Ramos, Stegen, and Fox, 2021, Goldman, Emani, Pérez‐Angel, Rodríguez‐Ramos, and Stegen, 2021).…”

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Hydrological Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Acharya¹,

Ahmmed

Chen

et al. 2022

This article discusses the Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) principles in hydrology with respect to: field, experimental, remote sensing, and real-time data research and application (Section 2); Machine learning (ML) for multiscale hydrological modeling (Section 3); and Inclusive, equitable, and accessible science: Involvement, challenges, and support of early career, marginalized racial groups, women, Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ+), and/or disabled researchers (Section 4

“…Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) science aims to enhance synthesis, increase resource efficiency, and create transferable knowledge (Goldman et al., 2021). This article belongs to a collection of commentaries spanning geoscience on the state and future of ICON science.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cryosphere Sciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Brugger

Jimenez

Ponsoni

et al. 2022

Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) science aims to enhance synthesis, increase resource efficiency, and create transferable knowledge (Goldman et al., 2021). This article belongs to a collection of commentaries spanning geoscience on the state and future of ICON science. For a deeper understanding of the ICON principles, see the introductory article for the collection. ICON-Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) expands upon "Open" to explicitly point to the FAIR data principles (Wilkinson et al., 2016).The cryosphere is one of the five major components of the global climate system along with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere (IPCC, 2019). Its terminology originates from the Greek word "krios" (κρύος) meaning cold, while in science it encompasses any discipline related to water in a frozen state, whether seasonal or perennial (NOAA, 2021). These include sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow, ice sheets, ice shelves, glaciers, freshwater ice, and frozen ground (AGU, 2021b; IPCC, 2019). Hence, cryosphere research is a field built around a common archive (ice) that embraces a variety of different research questions across spatial scales, time frames from modern to deep time, and is integrated (I-integrated) between traditional disciplines (i.e., physical, chemical, and biological). For example, in collected ice cores, a variety of measurements from physical properties, chemical species, and biological specimens, as well as atmospheric and ice flow modeling branch into other subdisciplines and require an assessment through integrated multidisciplinary approaches including natural and social sciences (e.g., McConnell et al., 2020;Richter-Menge et al., 2019).Due to recent climate change-forced phenomena, such as glacier retreats (e.g.,