Workshop: Advancing Geoscience Through Continental Drilling, June 4-5, 2009 in Denver, Colorado

该奖项将为科学研讨会提供资金，以确定关键主题，其中钻探获取样本，进行地下测量或放置仪器将在不久的将来在地球科学方面取得重要进展，并为未来陆上科学钻探的发展计划制定长期计划。研讨会将利用国际地球科学团体成员的见解来发展当代主题，例如二氧化碳封存和对进化速度的气候控制；以及其他可能从研讨会或其他地方出现的主题。研讨会的结果将是一份简短而全面的工作文件，该文件将公布目前正在进行和处于规划阶段的项目，确定可能在未来5年内取得成果的仅处于概念阶段的努力，鼓励大陆钻井界与其他地球科学界和实体之间的合作，并阐明实施预定、计划和设想项目所需的资源。该工作文件将主要以网络文件（.pdf）的形式提供给地球科学界、科学规划者和管理者，以及资助科学或为科学提供适当资金的机构。这次会议将为2010年更大规模的国际会议提供规划基础，该会议将制定一项长期（十年规模）的大陆钻探科学计划

This award will provide funds for a scientific workshop to identify critical topics where drilling to obtain samples, make subsurface measurements, or emplace instruments will make important advances in the geosciences in the near future, and to outline longer term plans for the development of future initiatives in land-based scientific drilling. The workshop will use insight from members of the international geoscience community to develop contemporary themes, such as CO2 sequestration and climatic controls on rates of evolution; and other themes that may emerge from the workshop or elsewhere. The result of the workshop will be a brief but comprehensive working document that will publicize projects currently in progress and in planning stages, identify efforts that are only in conceptual stages that may come to fruition in the next 5 years, encourage collaboration between the continental drilling community and other geoscience communities and entities, and articulate the resources necessary for the implementation of scheduled, planned, and envisioned projects. The working document will be made available to the geoscience community, to science planners and administrators, and to agencies that either fund science or appropriate funds for science primarily as a web document (.pdf). The meeting will be used to provide the basis for planning a larger-scale international meeting in 2010 that will be designed to produce a long-range (decadal scale) science plan for continental drilling.***