State of the Arc Conference (SOTA) 2010: Subduction to Eruption

智力优势：第五届 State of the Arc (SOTA) 会议将于 2010 年 9 月 19 日至 25 日在希腊锡罗斯岛和圣托里尼岛召开。其主题为“俯冲到喷发”，分主题包括：（1）俯冲物质内的渐进变质反应； (2) 弧岩浆作用的地球物理和地球动力学约束； (3) 地幔和地壳层面弧岩浆热质平衡的观测和实验约束； (4) 岩浆脱气和分异的时间尺度； (5)火山灾害。这次会议将汇集约 75 名国际研究人员和学生，他们的工作与这些主题有关。该提案寻求 NSF 资助约 10 名研究生或博士后以及约 10 名受邀演讲者的注册费。经验表明，“戈登会议”式的形式使 SOTA 会议能够解决关键问题并促进参与者新的研究方向。将邀请大约 11 位主旨演讲者和倡导者，他们的任务是总结与上述分主题相关的过去和前沿研究。其他参与者将主要以海报形式展示相关研究成果。会议的大部分时间将围绕地球动力学过程、岩浆分异和火山灾害之间的关系进行广泛而集中的讨论。挑衅者将被邀请来刺激这些讨论。锡罗斯岛和圣托里尼岛的实地考察将了解俯冲物质和弧火山活动的重要方面。组委会将召集会议，并负责邀请主讲嘉宾和吸引其他与会者，指导会议的科学内容，并准备书面摘要以供出版。 更广泛的影响：大约一半的 NSF 资金将用于支付年轻研究人员的注册费。这将确保下一代研究人员能够在职业生涯的早期阶段参与国际科学合作并从中受益。它还将为这些年轻研究人员提供与国际公认的专家互动的机会。会议规模较小，并且有不同背景的研究人员（地质学家、岩石学家、地球化学家和地球物理学家）的参与，将促进不同群体之间的对话，这对于确定需要解决的重要问题以及解决这些问题的可行的国际伙伴关系至关重要。与之前的会议相比，灾害将在这次 SOTA 会议上发挥更重要的作用，预计在开发利用岩石学、地球化学和地球物理信息预测火山灾害轨迹的工具方面将取得进展。

Intellectual Merit: The fifth State of the Arc (SOTA) conference will be convened September 19-25, 2010 at Syros and Santorini, Greece. Its theme will be ?Subduction to Eruption?, and sub-themes will include: (1) prograde metamorphic reaction within subducted materials; (2) geophysical and geodynamic constraints on arc magmatism; (3) observational and experimental constraints on heat and mass balance in arc magmas at mantle and crust levels; (4) time-scales of degassing and differentiation of magmas; and (5) volcanic hazards. This conference will bring together ~75 international researchers and students whose work bears on these themes. This proposal seeks funding from NSF for the registration fee for about ten graduate students or postdocs and about ten invited speakers. Experience has shown that a ?Gordon Conference?-style format allows SOTA meetings to address critical questions and facilitate new research directions amongst participants. Approximately 11 keynote speakers and provocateurs will be invited whose tasks will be to summarize past and cutting edge research bearing on the aforementioned sub-themes. Other participants will present relevant research results, primarily in poster format. The majority of the time of the conference will revolve around extended and focused discussion of the relation between geodynamic processes, magma differentiation, and volcano hazards. The provocateurs will be invited to stimulate these discussions. Field trips on Syros and Santorini will view important aspects of subducted materials and arc volcanism. The organizing committee will convene the meeting and will be responsible for inviting keynote speakers and attracting other participants, guiding the scientific content of the meeting, and preparing a written summary for publication.Broader Impacts: About half the funds from the NSF will be used to pay the registration fee for young researchers. This will ensure that the next generation of researchers will participate in and see the benefit of international scientific cooperation at an early stage in their careers. It also will provide the opportunity of these young researchers to interact with internationally recognized experts. The small size of the meeting and the involvement of researchers with diverse backgrounds (geologists, petrologists, geochemists, and geophysicists) will foment dialogue between different groups, which is critical to identifying important issues to address and viable, international partnerships to address them. Hazards will play a more central role in this SOTA meeting than earlier ones, and it is expected that progress will be made in developing tools to predict hazards trajectories for volcanoes utilizing petrological, geochemical, and geophysical information.