Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences MYRES: A Conference Series and Community Development Initiative

这笔赠款将用于建立两年一次的系列会议，即“地球科学青年研究人员会议（MYRES）"，该会议将聚集地球化学、地球动力学、矿物物理学、地震学和其他相关固体地球领域的年轻科学家。MYRES（www.myres.org）的主要目标是通过加速跨学科，国际，开放和公正的同事社区的发展来促进科学，这些同事可以定期进行非正式的交流，交流想法，数据和工具，并制定新的合作研究项目。每次MYRES会议的重点将是概述和讨论固体地球科学的一个主要未决问题。该奖项将用于支持定于2004年8月举行的关于“热量、氦、热点和整个地幔对流”的第一次MYRES会议。预计这项活动的主要影响将是汇集早期职业专家，他们可以相互教育每个学科可以解决的具体问题，从而更全面地了解不同学科可以为特定问题提供的限制的性质。MYRES还计划采用新的方法进行跨学科教育，并对这些创新程序进行评估，以确保这些会议的教育方面取得成功。更大的MYRES倡议的长期目标是为不受阻碍的国际科学合作建立一个框架，该倡议还需要广泛的计划在线资源。这种社区建设工作预计不仅将对新一代科学家产生重大的教育影响，而且还将有助于提高地球科学研究的总体效率。

LeeEAR-0352803This grant will allow the establishment of a biennial conference series, the "Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences (MYRES)", that will gather junior scientists in geochemistry, geodynamics, mineral physics, seismology, and other related Solid Earth fields. The primary aim of MYRES (www.myres.org) is to further science by accelerating the growth of an interdisciplinary, international, open, and unbiased community of colleagues that can interact regularly to informally exchange ideas, data, and tools, and to formulate new collaborative research projects. The focus of each MYRES meeting will be the overview and discussion of a major outstanding problem from the Solid Earth Sciences. This award will support the first MYRES meeting, to take place in August 2004, on the following subject: "Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection". It is expected that the primary broader impact of this activity will be to bring together early-career specialists that can educate each other about the specific issues each discipline can address, and thus, allow a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of the constraints different disciplines can provide to a specific problem. MYRES also plans to implement new ways to educate across disciplinary boundaries and to evaluate these innovative procedures to ensure the success of the educational aspect of these meetings. The long-range goal of the larger MYRES initiative, which also entails a wide range of planned online resources, is to establish a framework for unhindered, international scientific cooperation. Such community-building efforts are expected not only to have a substantial educational impact among this new generation of scientists but also help improve the overall effectiveness of research in the Earth Sciences.