Collaborative Research: Complexity in Geomorphology Symposium: Binghamton 2007; Durham, North Carolina; October 5-7, 2007

该奖项将为“地貌学的复杂性”研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会将由宾厄姆顿地貌研讨会(BGS)主办。BGS被认为是专门关注地貌学的领先的国际年度会议。它汇集了许多子领域的领先地貌学家，它以前收集的论文包括被广泛引用的经典著作，这些经典著作影响了地貌学和相关科学的研究进程。尽管“复杂性”是从非线性动力学(如混沌理论)的起源发展而来的一把保护伞，但共同的线索包括从简单的相互作用中产生的复杂行为，以及从无数局部相互作用中出现的整体秩序和模式。在过去的20年里，“复杂系统”的方法和观点已经渗透到地貌学的许多不同的分支中，导致了对地貌如何发展和演变的全新的见解。研讨会将提供一个智力环境，与会者可以在其中审查、辩论、讨论和综合概念范例、适当的方法、理论和观测之间的联系，以及未来地貌复杂性研究的教学框架。像BGS这样的综合论坛对这一努力至关重要。复杂系统方法包括在不同领域发展的各种理论和数据分析方法，包括物理、数学和生态学，以及地球科学。地貌学的广泛领域包括具有一系列背景和专业知识的研究人员，他们使用一系列互补的复杂系统方法。此外，存在着两个地貌学家群体--一边是地理学家，另一边主要是地质学家和工程师--两者都以不同的方式使用复杂系统的概念，但参加不同的会议的交叉作用太少。拟议的研讨会将汇集来自这些不同背景的研究人员和学生，以促进在活动期间和活动后可能导致新想法产生的互动。更广泛的影响：在一个人类土地利用变化、气候变化、景观演变和生态系统在许多尺度上相互作用日益增多的时代，研讨会可能产生的基础科学工具和思想将促进更有效地规划和管理土地利用、减灾和生态/地貌恢复。此外，本次研讨会将展示许多学者和实践者的研究成果，包括初级科学家、妇女和来自不同学科背景的工作人员。这次展示将具有高度的质量控制严格性，发表的论文将经过彻底的同行审查过程，并在国际期刊《地貌学》的特刊上发表。最后，地貌学这门学科的核心理念、方法和目标将为新的地球科学教学组织提供基础。会议组织：BGS 2007将由北卡罗来纳州达勒姆杜克大学尼古拉斯环境和地球科学学院主办(2007年10月5日至7日)。

This award will provide partial support for the symposium "Complexity in Geomorphology," which will run under the auspices of the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS). The BGS is recognized as the leading international annual conference focused specifically on geomorphology. It brings together leading geomorphologists in many subfields, and its prior collected papers include widely cited classics that have affected the course of research in geomorphology and related sciences. Although 'complexity' is an umbrella that has expanded considerably from its origins in nonlinear dynamics (e.g. Chaos Theory), common threads include complicated behavior arising from simple interactions, and the emergence of overall order and patterns from myriad local interactions. In the past 20 years, 'complex systems' approaches and perspectives have infiltrated into many disparate branches of geomorphology, leading to fundamentally new insights about how landforms develop and evolve. The symposium will provide an intellectual environment where the participants can review, debate, discuss, and synthesize conceptual paradigms, appropriate methods, linkages between theories and observations, and instructional frameworks for future complexity-in-geomorphology research. An integrated forum such as the BGS is extremely crucial for this endeavor. Complex-systems approaches include diverse theoretical and data-analysis methods developed in different fields including physics, mathematics, and ecology, as well as in the Earth sciences. The broad field of geomorphology includes researchers with a range of backgrounds and expertise using a range of complementary complex-systems approaches. In addition, two communities of geomorphologists exist--consisting respectively of geographers on one hand and mostly geologists and engineers on the other--both using complex-systems concepts in various ways, but attending different meetings with far too little cross-fertilization. The proposed symposium will integrate researchers and students from these various backgrounds, to facilitate interactions likely to lead to the generation of new ideas both during and after the event. Broader Impacts: In an era of increasing interactions between changing human land use, changing climate, landscape evolution, and ecosystems on many scales, the basic-science tools and ideas likely to result from the symposium will facilitate more effective planning and management of land use, hazard mitigation, and ecological/geomorphological restorations. In addition, this symposium will showcase the research of many scholars and practitioners, including junior scientists, women, and workers from different disciplinary backgrounds. This showcase will have a high level of quality-controlled rigor, with the published papers undergoing a thorough peer-review process and publication in a special issue of the international journal Geomorphology. Finally, the core set of ideas, methods, and goals on the subject of geomorphology will provide the basis for a new organization of teaching in the geosciences. Conference Organization: The BGS 2007 will be hosted by the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (5-7 October 2007).