"Quaternary Grassland Forest Dynamics" -- 18th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association; Lawrence, Kansas; June 26-28, 2004

该奖项将于2004年6月26日至28日在堪萨斯州劳伦斯市举行的美国第四纪协会（AMQUA）两年一次的会议上，为题为“第四纪草原森林动力学”的会议提供支持。具体来说，该奖项为大约15名研究生和博士后研究人员提供参与者支持，以参与研究草原-森林边界动态中气候、地质、生物和人类系统之间复杂的相互作用的报告和讨论。组织者的目标包括：1)提供一个论坛，展示新的数据和方法，以理解草地/森林转变的生物、地质、古气候学和文化方面；2)将不同的研究人员聚集在一起，促进协同活动，使现有的研究人员和学生都受益；3)鼓励互动，以促进旨在收集数据的新项目，促进研究和分析新工具的开发，并使不经常参加相同会议的科学学科的研究人员和学生之间的综合努力成为可能。会议上的所有报告都将由AMQUA以摘要的形式出版，供更广泛的科学界购买。

This award helps support a conference entitled, "Quaternary Grassland Forest Dynamics" at the biennial meeting of the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) in Lawrence, Kansas on June 26 - 28, 2004.Specifically, the award provides participant support for approximately fifteen (15) graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to participate in presentations and discussions that examine the complex interaction among climatic, geologic, biologic, and human systems in the dynamics of grassland-forest boundaries.Among the organizer's objectives are: 1) provide a forum for presentation of new data and approaches for understanding the biological, geological, paleoclimatological, and cultural aspects of grassland/forest transitions; 2) bring together a diverse group of researchers to foster synergistic activities that will benefit both established investigators as well as students; and 3) encourage interactions that will promote new projects aimed at collecting data, foster the development of novel tools for research and analysis, and enable integrative efforts among researchers and students that are in scientific disciplines that do not often participate in the same meetings or conferences. All presentations at the conference will be published by AMQUA in a volume of abstracts that will be available for purchase by the wider scientific community.