Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History: 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium; Austin, Texas; October 2008

河道和泛滥平原的泥沙淤积受一系列自然和人为因素的控制，这些因素表现在沉积的类型、数量和类型上。因此，河流沉积是研究跨越大空间和时间尺度的环境变化的重要档案。科学家使用河流沉积来研究各种不同类型的环境变化，例如流域对气候变化的反应，干旱和洪水的事件，以及人类因素对景观的长期影响。这些主题由一系列专业进行研究，地貌学是主要的研究重点。地貌学也是连接沉积学和考古学等相关学科的桥梁。该奖项将帮助组织者举办一次研讨会，将各种不同的学者聚集在一起，促进对河流沉积如何加深对环境历史的基本理解的基本理解。研讨会将集中讨论与环境历史相关的几个关键领域，包括古水文学、地质考古学和河流对气候变化的调整。会议的地点将是宾厄姆顿地貌学研讨会(BGS)，自1966年以来每年举行一次，是北美历史最悠久的地貌学研讨会。2008年的BGS将在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行，题为“河流沉积与环境史”。研讨会将为综合知识状况和确定新的研究前沿提供一个场所。除了BGS对地貌学做出贡献的悠久传统外，这次研讨会还将扩大环境历史的边界。预计2008年BGS将通过让研究生以及其他专业参与者接触环境历史方法而产生更广泛的教育意义。在国际会议上出席和展示研究为研究生提供了一种与其所在领域的主要人物互动和建立网络的形式，这对发展研究轨迹至关重要。2008年BGS将通过赞助海报比赛和大幅降低注册费用来鼓励研究生参与。2008年BGS将通过向国际参与者提供财政支持来促进学术多样性，并将特别强调通过补贴注册费用鼓励欠发达国家的学者参与。2008年的BGS还将包括来自一系列学术级别的学者，包括一批强大的新兴学者。为了确保环境科学领域的学者广泛获得会议上探讨的想法，这些论文将发表在主要的国际同行评议期刊《地貌学》上。

The deposition of sediment along river channels and floodplains is controlled by a range of natural and human-related factors, which are manifest in the type, amount, and style of sedimentation. Fluvial deposits therefore constitute vital archives for studying environmental change, spanning large spatial and temporal scales. Scientists use fluvial deposits to examine a variety of distinct types of environmental change, such as drainage-basin response to climate change, episodes of drought and flood, and the long-term impact of human agents on the landscape. These topics are investigated by a range of specialties, with geomorphology serving as a major focus of research. Geomorphology also constitutes a bridge to allied disciplines, such as sedimentology and archaeology. This award will help organizers to host a symposium that will bring together a diverse range of scholars to advance basic understanding of how fluvial deposits can deepen fundamental understanding of environmental history. The symposium will focus on several key areas of relevance to environmental history, including paleohydrology, geoarchaeology, and fluvial adjustment to climate change. The venue for the meeting will be the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS), which has annually met since 1966 and is the oldest geomorphology symposium in North America. The 2008 BGS will be held at the University of Texas-Austin and will be titled "Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History."The symposium will provide a venue for synthesizing the state of knowledge and for identifying new research frontiers. In addition to BGS's long tradition of contributing to geomorphology, this symposium will expand the boundaries of environmental history. The 2008 BGS is expected to have broader educational significance by exposing graduate students as well other professional participants to an environmental history approach. Attending and presenting research at international meetings provides a format for graduate students to interact and network with major figures in their field and is crucial for developing a research trajectory. The 2008 BGS will encourage graduate student participation through a sponsored poster competition and by substantially reducing registration costs. The 2008 BGS will promote scholarly diversity by providing financial support to international participants, and it will place special emphasis on encouraging participation of scholars from less-developed nations through subsidized registration costs. The 2008 BGS also will include scholars from a range of academic ranks, including a strong group of emerging scholars. To ensure that the ideas explored at the meeting become widely available to scholars within the environmental sciences, the papers will be published in Geomorphology, a major international peer-reviewed journal.