Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2010 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee June 13-18, 2010

智力成就：2010年V.M.在田纳西州诺克斯维尔举行的Goldschemer会议将为年轻的地球化学家提供一个极好的机会，与科学界分享他们的研究，了解世界各地正在进行的前沿研究，并与专门从事他们感兴趣的特定领域的高级科学家进行互动。会议将讨论的主题问题涵盖了低温和高温地球化学的广泛子学科，包括早期太阳系地质年代学，行星地球化学，早期地球，大陆地壳演化，地幔动力学，地幔地球化学，实验岩石学，地壳和地幔中的流体，俯冲过程，岩浆过程，热年代学和资源地球化学。除了口头和海报介绍会议，学生将有机会参加实地考察，以突出的地质目的地在南部阿巴拉契亚山脉，包括大烟山国家公园，镁铁-超镁铁复合物在北卡罗来纳州，并在橡树岭国家实验室，以及地球化学和地球化学数据库教学的短期课程。该提案提出了一种公平选择和分配旅行资助资金给最合格的学生申请人的方法，以确保30名或更多的学生有机会受益于会议上汇集的所有资源。除了从NSF要求的资金，地球化学学会将贡献$10，000，使学生的机会总数为40.Broader影响：国际科学会议是所有经验水平的研究人员的主要网络出口。对于研究生来说，这些会议往往是与国际科学界成员互动的第一次机会。作为首屈一指的国际地球化学会议，Goldschleman会议在向年轻研究人员介绍他们所在机构以外的地球化学世界方面发挥着关键作用。这种国际学习和网络经验的挥之不去的影响可能会改变一个努力在科学界站稳脚跟的研究生的生活。拟议中的学生旅行支持计划将使来自美国和美国领土的最优秀和最聪明的高年级研究生，否则可能由于家庭机构的财政限制而无法参加的学生，能够受益于本次会议在各自职业生涯的转折点上提供的所有优势。将尽一切努力鼓励妇女，代表性不足的少数民族和残疾人申请资助，并尽可能确保今天的地球科学研究生社区抽样的人口多样性在获奖者中得到代表。我们真诚地希望，鼓励代表性不足的群体参加戈德施密特会议等国际活动，将在今后几年增加高级地球科学家核心群体的多样性。

Intellectual Merit: The 2010 V. M. Goldschmidt Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, will provide an excellent opportunity for young geochemists to share their research with the scientific community, learn about cutting edge research taking place around the world, and interact with senior scientists specializing in their specific realm of interest. Thematic issues to be addressed at the conference span a broad range of sub-disciplines in low- and high-temperature geochemistry, including early solar system geochronology, planetary geochemistry, early earth, continental crustal evolution, mantle dynamics, mantle geochemistry, experimental petrology, fluids in the crust and mantle, subduction processes, magmatic processes, thermochronology, and resource geochemistry. In addition to oral and poster presentation sessions, students will have an opportunity to participate in field trips to outstanding geological destinations in the southern Appalachian Mountains including the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, mafic-ultramafic complexes in North Carolina, and the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as short courses on teaching geochemistry and geochemical databases. This proposal puts forth a method for fairly selecting and distributing travel support funds to the most qualified student applicants, to ensure that 30 or more have an opportunity to benefit from all the resources to be assembled at the conference. In addition to the funding requested from NSF, the Geochemical Society will contribute $10,000, bringing the total number of student opportunities to 40.Broader Impacts: International scientific meetings are the primary networking outlet for researchers of all experience levels. For graduate students, these meetings are often the first opportunity to interact with members of the international scientific community. As the premier international geochemical conference, the Goldschmidt Conference plays a critical role in introducing young researchers to the world of geochemistry beyond their home institutions. The lingering effects of such an international learning and networking experience can be life-changing for a graduate student struggling to gain a foothold in the scientific community. The proposed student travel support program will enable the best and brightest senior graduate students from the US and US Territories, students who might otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints at their home institutions, to benefit from all the advantages this meeting has to offer at this turning point in their respective careers. Every effort will be made to encourage women, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities to apply for funding, and to ensure, as much as possible, that the full range of demographic diversity sampled by today's geosciences graduate student community is represented among the awardees. It is our sincere hope that encouraging participation by underrepresented groups in international events such as the GoldschmidtConference will increase the diversity of the core group of senior geoscientists in the years to come.