Participant Support for 2004 International SEDI Meeting

我们申请的资金将用于支付第八届地球深部内部研究研讨会（SEDI）的与会者费用。会议将于2004年7月4日至9日在德国的加米施帕滕基兴举行。SEDI是一个致力于研究地球深层内部的国际科学组织。SEDI的最终目标是加强对地球深部过去的演变和目前的热、动力和化学状态的了解，以及对地球内部对在地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响的了解。“深部内部”通常被认为是地核和下地幔，但兴趣可能会延伸到表面，例如，在地幔柱或下降的岩石圈板块的动力学研究。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁学和地球深部的演化，外核的组成，结构和动力学，发电机能量学，内核的结构，核冷却和核-幔边界区域，核-幔边界形状，地球的耦合和旋转，下地幔：结构，对流和羽状流，性质和位置ofdeep地球化学水库等更广泛的影响这一建议将有助于美国研究生和年轻研究人员的跨学科教育，通过促进对话，在一个相对较小的研讨会风格的会议在各级研究人员。SEDI的结构本质上是跨学科的，为内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，这些合作有助于我们对地球深部的理解。

We request funds that will be used to contribute to participant costs for the 8th symposium on Study of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI). The meeting will be held in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany from July 4-9, 2004. Intellectual Merit SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The ultimate goal of SEDI is an enhanced understanding of the past evolution and current thermal, dynamical, and chemical state of the Earth's deep interior and of the effect that the interior has on the structures and processes observed at the surface of the Earth. The 'deep interior' is generally considered to be the core and lower mantle, but interest may extend to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, composition, structure and dynamics of the outer core, dynamo energetics, structure of the inner core, core cooling and the core-mantle boundary region, core-mantle boundary shape, coupling and the rotation of the Earth, lower mantle: structure, convection and plumes, nature and location ofdeep geochemical reservoirs, etc. Broader Impact This proposal will contribute to interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and young researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop style meeting. The structure of SEDI is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and international collaborations on a range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep earth.