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

这项拨款将用于建立两年一次的“地球科学青年研究人员会议（MYRES）”系列会议，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青年科学家。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，促进科学的发展，这些社区可以定期互动，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MYRES会议的重点将是概述和讨论固体地球科学的一个主要突出问题。这笔奖金将支持将于2004年8月举行的MYRES第一次会议，会议的主题是：“热、氦、热点和整个地幔对流”。预期这项活动的主要更广泛的影响将是把早期职业专家聚集在一起，他们可以就每一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可以对具体问题提供的限制的性质。该中心还计划实施跨学科教育的新方法，并评价这些创新程序，以确保这些会议的教育方面取得成功。更大的MYRES计划的长期目标是建立一个不受阻碍的国际科学合作框架，该计划还需要广泛的计划在线资源。这种建立社区的努力预计不仅会对新一代科学家产生重大的教育影响，而且还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.