Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrates

首届戈登天然气水合物研究会议

• 批准号: 0957351
• 负责人: Carolyn Ruppel
• 金额: $ 2.25万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0957351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inaugural; Gordon; Research; Conference; Natural

Methane gas hydrates are ubiquitous in arctic regions and in continental margin marine sediments. They are important archives of methane and are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and pressure, making them potentially important in terms of assessing greenhouse gas emissions and continental margin slope stability. This award facilitates the participation of graduate students, postdocs and others in the four-day long inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrates at Colby College in Maine. The workshop brings together a diverse group of scientists from academia, the government, and industry. It focuses on building bonds between researchers in these different sectors and provides a venue for them to discuss geochemical, geophysical, microbiological, and hydrological issues related to natural gas hydrate formation and destruction. Broader impacts of the work include increasing knowledge of a potential important alternative energy resource and host mineral of a strong greenhouse gas (methane). Special efforts will be made and funds are allocated to increase the participation in the workshop of women and other groups under-represented in the sciences.

甲烷水合物普遍存在于北极地区和大陆边缘海洋沉积物中。 它们是甲烷的重要档案，对温度和压力的变化极为敏感，因此在评估温室气体排放和大陆边斜坡稳定性方面具有潜在的重要性。该奖项有利于研究生，博士后和其他人在为期四天的就职戈登天然气水合物研究会议在科尔比学院在缅因州的参与。 研讨会汇集了来自学术界、政府和工业界的不同科学家。它侧重于在这些不同部门的研究人员之间建立联系，并为他们提供一个场所，讨论与天然气水合物形成和破坏有关的地球化学，地球物理，微生物和水文学问题。 这项工作的更广泛影响包括增加对一种潜在的重要替代能源和一种强温室气体（甲烷）的宿主矿物的了解。 将作出特别努力并拨出资金，以增加妇女和其他在科学领域代表性不足的群体对讲习班的参与。