Conference: Student Travel and Activities Grant: International Society for Salt Lake Research Conference, May 11 -17, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah

该奖项支持多达13名研究生和/或博士后学员参加2008年5月11日至17日在犹他州盐湖城举行的第十届国际盐湖研究学会(ISSLR)会议。三年一度的会议汇集了来自世界各地的大约100-250名科学家，在一个鼓励微生物学家、地质学家、地球化学家、毒物学家、湖泊学家和生态学家之间进行跨学科交流的环境中。会议的主要目标是分享每个领域的进展，希望促进跨学科研究，在一个互惠互利的论坛上促进对高盐分环境的化学、地质和生物学的理解，将学生和高级研究人员聚集在一起。会议还将提供促进学生联网和整体科学培训体验的活动。ISSLR的场地为学生提供了许多机会(例如，用餐、海报会议、会议中期实地考察)，让学生与来自世界各地的科学家互动；这些促进合作的互动会议可以在招收和留住不同的学生方面发挥重要作用。招生将通过美国湖泊和海洋学学会的多元文化项目和美国微生物学会在线(包括少数民族事务在线时事通讯)、微生物杂志进行广告宣传，并通过NIH名单服务器向少数族裔科学家发布广告。除了女性和少数族裔科学家外，这一广泛的报道还将覆盖到各级科学家。此外，特别会议的每一位主席还将发出参与呼吁，突出会议上的学生活动和奖项，并将特别鼓励代表不足的群体参与。

This award supports up to thirteen graduate students and/or postdoctoral trainees to attend The 10th International Society for Salt Lake Research (ISSLR) Conference, May 11-17,2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The triennial conference brings approximately 100-250 scientists together from around the world in an environment that encourages interdisciplinary exchanges between microbiologists, geologists, geochemists, toxicologists, limnologists and ecologists. The primary goal of the meeting is to share the advances from each of these fields with the hope of fostering interdisciplinary research that will advance understanding of the chemistry, geology and biology of hypersaline environments in a mutually beneficial forum that brings students and senior researchers together. The meeting will also provide activities that will facilitate student networking and the overall scientific training experience.The venue for ISSLR provides a number of opportunities (e.g. meals, poster sessions, mid-conference field trip) for students to interact with scientists from all over the world; these interactive meetings that foster collegiality can play an important role in recruiting and retaining a diverse pool of students. Student recruitment will target underrepresented groups by advertising via the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography's Multicultural Program and the American Society for Microbiology online (including the Minority Affairs online newsletter), the Microbe magazine,and distribution via the NIH list-serv focused on to minority scientists. This broad coverage will reach various levels of scientist in addition to women and minority scientists. Additionally, each chair of the special sessions will also send out a call for participation that highlights the student activities and awards at the meeting, and will specifically encourage participationby underrepresented groups.