U.S.-Australia Joint Seminar: Organic Geochemical Biomarker Techniques Applied to the Paleobiological Record / Canberra,Australia / August 1988

该奖项将支持六名美国科学家参加“应用于古生物记录的有机地球化学标记技术”研讨会。这次研讨会是由李博士和李博士共同组织的。印第安纳大学的大卫·迪尔彻和约翰·海斯博士。澳大利亚矿产资源局的沃尔特先生和特鲁斯韦尔先生。美国和澳大利亚的与会者将于1988年8月在澳大利亚堪培拉会晤。研讨会将讨论生物成因物质的分析如何有助于破译沉积岩中产生有机化合物（特别是石油）的生物。本次研讨会将汇集古生物学家、有机地球化学家、生物学家和天然产物化学家。这种跨学科的互动将使古生物学家注意到一个他们通常忽视的重要信息来源，将使化学家了解他们可能作出贡献的重要的古生物学和进化问题，并可能加强生物标志物技术在石油地球化学中的应用。美国和澳大利亚科学家在这些不同子领域的专家的参与应该促进积极的合作，使两国受益。

This award will support the participation of six U.S. scientists in a seminar on "Organic Geochemical Marker Techniques Applied to the Paleobiological Record." The seminar is organized jointly by Drs. David Dilcher and John Hayes of Indiana University and Drs. M. R. Walter and E. M. Truswell of the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources. Participants from the U.S. and Australia will meet in Canberra, Australia in August 1988. The seminar will address how the analysis of biogenic substances can help in deciphering the organisms responsible for organic compounds (especially petroleum) in sedimentary rocks. This seminar will bring together paleontologists, organic geochemists, biologists and natural product chemists. Such interdisciplinary interaction will bring to the attention of paleontologists an important source of information that they usually overlook, will inform chemists of important palaeobiological and evolutionary issues to which they might contribute, and may enhance the use of biomarker techniques in petroleum geochemistry. Participation by U.S. and Australian scientists who are experts in these various subfields should promote active collaboration to the benefit of both countries.