SOTA 2007 and GSA Field Forum in Chile: Support for Graduate Student and Latin American Participation

该奖项是由美洲项目（国际科学与工程办公室）和岩石与地球化学项目（地球科学部）共同资助的，目的是为拉丁美洲和美国的年轻科学家（包括研究生和博士后）参加在智利中南部举行的两次地球化学会议提供支持，这些会议将讨论与弧岩浆作用和火山作用有关的一级问题。(1) 2007年Arc State of the Arc （SOTA）会议；(2)美国地质学会（GSA）关于Tatara-San Pedro火山复群的现场论坛。许多拉丁美洲国家位于俯冲带沿线，既受到俯冲带带来的危害，也受到俯冲带带来的好处。这些国家的火山和深成露面一直是国际上对俯冲带过程各方面研究的焦点。众所周知，环太平洋地区第四纪火山弧的火山几乎有三分之一位于墨西哥、中美洲和南美洲。2007年SOTA会议的目的是严格审查有关弧岩浆作用和火山作用的知识状况。GSA现场论坛的目的是将来自世界各地的研究人员聚集在一起，参观世界上最引人注目的年轻火山群之一（925 ka到全新世），在过去的20年里，人们对它进行了深入的研究。该奖项的主要目标是使拉丁美洲和美国的年轻科学家（包括高级研究生和博士后）能够参加这两个会议，彼此见面，从而启动和促进长期合作关系。支持美国研究生参与的资金将确保下一代研究人员在其职业生涯的早期阶段就受到教育，看到国际科学合作的好处。会议规模较小（SOTA为70-90人，GSA FF为32人），特别有利于不同群体之间进行实质性和广泛的对话，这对未来形成可行的国际伙伴关系至关重要。

This award was co-funded by the Americas Program (Office of International Science and Engineering), and the Petrology and Geochemistry program (Division of Earth Sciences) in order to provide support to offset the costs for young Latin American and U.S.scientists (including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) to participate in two Geochemistry meetings in south-central Chile that will address first-order questions bearing on arc magmatism and volcanism: (1) the 2007 State of the Arc (SOTA) meeting, and (2) a Geological Society of America (GSA) Field Forum to the Tatara-San Pedro volcanic complex. Many Latin American countries are located along subduction zones, and are subject both to the hazards and benefits that arise from them. The volcanic and plutonic exposures in these countries have been the focus of intense international research on all aspects of subduction zone processes. It is also known that almost a third of the Quaternary arc volcanoes around the Pacific Rim are located in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The purpose of the 2007 SOTA meeting is to critically examine the state of knowledge regarding arc magmatism and volcanism. The purpose of the GSA Field Forum is to bring together researchers from around the world to visit one of the most spectacularly exposed, yet young (925 ka to the Holocene) volcanic complexes in the world, which has been intensively studied over the last 20 years.The primary goal of this award will be to enable young Latin American and U.S.scientists (including senior graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) to attend the two meetings, meet with one another, and thus initiate and foster long-term collaborative relationships. Funds to support the participation of U.S. graduate students will ensure that the next generation of researchers will be educated to see the benefit of international scientific cooperation at an early stage in their careers. The small size of the meetings (70-90 for SOTA and 32 for the GSA FF) is especially conducive to substantial and extensive dialogue between different groups, which is critical to the formation of viable, international partnerships in the future.