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

该奖项有助于支持2004年6月26日至28日在堪萨斯劳伦斯举行的美国第四纪协会（AMQUA）两年一度的会议上举行的题为“第四纪草原森林动态”的会议。草地-森林边界动态中的地质、生物和人类系统。组织者的目标之一是：1）提供一个论坛，介绍新的数据和方法，以了解草地/森林过渡的生物、地质、古气候和文化方面; 2）汇集一个多元化的研究小组，以促进协同活动，这将有利于既建立调查人员以及学生; 3）鼓励互动，以促进旨在收集数据的新项目，促进研究和分析的新工具的开发，并使不经常参加同一会议或会议的科学学科的研究人员和学生能够进行综合努力。会议上的所有演讲将由AMQUA出版一卷摘要，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.