Student and Young Scientist Travel for the 34th Larval Fish Conference: May 30-June 3, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico

第34届国际幼鱼年会的主题是“21世纪的幼鱼生物学：应对不断变化的环境”。每年一度的幼鱼会议的目的是交流有关鱼类早期生活史阶段（卵、幼体和幼鱼）的功能生物学和生态学的基本知识及其对生态系统进程的重要性。该奖项将用于支持学生，博士后研究人员和初级教师参加本次会议的旅行，并介绍他们的研究成果有关的专题讨论会，题为“综合发育系统：发育生物学，生理学和生态学满足”。研讨会的发言者代表了一个不同的科学家群体，他们的性别，种族，民族血统和职业阶段，他们的演讲将弥合科学领域之间的传统界限。本次会议将为来自不同背景和国家的科学家提供机会，他们通常不会参加相同的专业协会会议，进行互动，交流思想，并开展合作。旅行奖的获得者将根据其摘要的科学质量以及他们的经济需求进行选择，并将努力支持女性和代表性不足的少数民族申请人。

The overarching theme of 34th International Annual Larval Fish Conference is "Larval Fish Biology in the 21st Century: Responding to a Changing Environment". The purpose of the annual Larval Fish Conferences is to communicate basic knowledge about the functional biology and ecology of early life history stages of fishes (egg, larva and juvenile) and their importance to ecosystem processes. This award will be used to support travel by students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty to attend this conference and present their research findings relating to a symposium entitled "Integrative Developmental Systems: Where developmental biology, physiology and ecology meet". The symposium speakers represent a diverse group of scientists with respect to their gender, ethnicity, national origin, and career stage and their presentations will bridge of traditional boundaries between scientific fields. This conference will provide the opportunity for scientists from different backgrounds and countries, who normally do not attend the same professional society meetings, to interact, exchange ideas, and generate collaborations. Recipients of the travel awards will be selected based on the scientific quality of their abstract as well as their financial need, and efforts will be made to support female and underrepresented minority applicants.