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

这笔赠款将允许建立一个两年一次的系列会议，即“地球科学青年研究人员会议(MYRES)”，聚集了地球化学、地球动力学、矿物物理、地震学和其他相关固体地球领域的初级科学家。Myres(www.myres.org)的主要目标是通过加速发展一个跨学科的、国际的、开放的和不偏不倚的同事社区来促进科学发展，这个社区可以定期互动，非正式地交换想法、数据和工具，并制定新的合作研究项目。每次迈尔斯会议的焦点将是对固体地球科学的一个重大悬而未决问题的概述和讨论。该奖项将支持将于2004年8月举行的第一次迈尔斯会议，主题如下：“热、氦、热点和整个地幔对流”。预计这一活动的主要更广泛影响将是将职业早期专家聚集在一起，这些专家可以就每个学科可以解决的具体问题相互教育，从而使人们能够更全面地了解不同学科对具体问题可能造成的制约的性质。迈尔斯还计划实施跨越学科界限的教育新方法，并对这些创新程序进行评估，以确保这些会议在教育方面取得成功。更大的Myres倡议的长期目标是建立一个畅通无阻的国际科学合作框架，该倡议还需要广泛规划的在线资源。这种社区建设努力预计不仅将在新一代科学家中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整体效力。

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.