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/或博士后实习生参加第十届国际盐湖研究学会（ISSLR）会议，2008年5月11日至17日在湖城，犹他州。 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，鼓励微生物学家，地质学家，地球化学家，毒理学家，湖沼学家和生态学家之间的跨学科交流。会议的主要目标是分享这些领域的进展，希望促进跨学科研究，在一个互利的论坛上促进对高盐环境的化学，地质学和生物学的理解，将学生和高级研究人员聚集在一起。会议还将提供活动，以促进学生的网络和整体的科学培训经验。ISSLR的场地为学生提供了许多机会（例如膳食，海报会议，会议期间的实地考察），与来自世界各地的科学家进行互动;这些互动会议，促进合议，可以发挥重要作用，招募和留住学生的多元化人才库。 学生招聘将通过广告通过湖沼学和海洋学的多元文化计划和美国微生物学学会在线（包括少数民族事务在线通讯），微生物杂志，并通过NIH列表服务器分布针对少数民族科学家的美国社会代表性不足的群体。这一广泛的覆盖面将覆盖到各级科学家以及妇女和少数民族科学家。此外，特别会议的每一位主席也将发出参与呼吁，强调会议上的学生活动和奖项，并特别鼓励代表性不足的群体参与。

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.