American Chemical Society Symposium: Chemical and Biological Control of Mineral Growth and Dissolution Kinetics, April 2-7, 1995, in Anaheim, California

该奖项支持为期两天的主题为“化学和生物控制矿物生长和溶解动力学”的研讨会，由化学系和地球科学系联合颁发。研讨会将于1995年4月在加利福尼亚州阿纳海姆举行，同时还将举行美国化学学会年会。来自地质学、化学、生物学和物理学的参与者将讨论控制矿物在环境中溶解和改造的速度的因素。直到最近，地质环境中微生物的存在才被理解为一个重要因素。矿物溶解的一个例子是岩石的风化，这一过程通常对大气中二氧化碳的释放、水中化学物质的运输、湖泊的酸度以及土壤的形成和肥力起着主要作用。这次会议旨在鼓励许多学科的科学家之间的合作，并将注意力集中在一个问题上，这个问题对于获得准确的气候模型和修复受污染的地表水和地下水、土壤和沉积物都很重要。研讨会的组织者是怀俄明大学地质和地球物理系的丽莎·L·斯蒂林斯博士。研讨会的会议记录将予以公布。

This award supports a two-day symposium on the topic `Chemical and Biological Controls on Mineral Growth and Dissolution Kinetics` and is made jointly by the Division of Chemistry and the Division of Earth Sciences. The symposium will be held in April 1995 in Anaheim, California, in conjunction with an annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. Participants from geology, chemistry, biology, and physics will discuss the factors which control the rates at which minerals dissolve and reform in the environment. The presence of microorganisms in geologic environments has only recently been understood as an important factor. One example of mineral dissolution is weathering of rocks, and the process generally plays a major role in atmospheric carbon dioxide release, transport of chemicals in waters, acidity of lakes, and soil formation and fertility. The conference is intended to encourage collaboration among scientists in many disciplines and to focus attention on an issue that is important both in obtaining accurate climate models and in remediation of contaminated surface- and groundwaters, soils, and sediments. The symposium organizer is Dr. Lisa L. Stillings, Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. Proceedings of the symposium will be published.