CSEDI: Support for 12th SEDI Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA

该奖项将支付第12届地球研究研讨会的参与者费用。深内（SEDI）。会议将于2010年7月19日至23日在加利福尼亚州的圣巴巴拉举行。这笔资金将用于支持美国研究机构的大约30名年轻研究人员参加2010年的SEDI会议。SEDI是一个致力于地球深部内部研究的国际科学组织。SEDI的主要研究重点是促进我们对地球深部内部过去，现在和未来状态的理解，并探索在地球表面观察到的结构和过程的后果。“深部内部”被广泛地解释为包括地核和下地幔，但人们的兴趣不可避免地延伸到地表，例如，在地幔柱或岩石圈板块下降的动力学研究中。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁和地球深部内部的演化，极端条件下的材料性质，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-幔相互作用，以及深部地球化学储层的性质和位置，这一提议将有助于美国研究生和年轻研究人员的跨学科教育，通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式会议上与各级研究人员进行对话。国际格式补充了美国国家团体（如CIDER）的努力，并将对那些在NSF CSEDI计划下资助或寻求资助的人有用。SEDI的结构本质上是跨学科的，为内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，这些合作涉及广泛的主题，有助于我们对地球深部和其他行星内部的理解。

This award will cover participant costs for the 12th Symposium on Study of Earth?s Deep Interior (SEDI). The meeting will be held in Santa Barbara, CA from July 19 - 23, 2010. The funds will be used to support approximately 30 young researchers at US institutions to attend the SEDI meeting in 2010.SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The primary research focus of SEDI is to advance our understanding of the past, current and future state of the Earth's deep interior and to explore the consequences for structures and processes observed at the Earth's surface. The 'deep interior' is broadly interpreted to include the core and lower mantle, but interest inevitably extends to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, material properties at extreme conditions, structure and dynamics of the core and mantle, core-mantle interactions, and the nature and location of deep geochemical reservoirs, etc. This proposal will contribute to interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and young researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop-style meeting. The international format complements efforts by US national groups such as CIDER and will be useful to those funded under or seeking funding from the NSF CSEDI program. The structure of SEDI is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and international collaborations on a broad range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep earth and other planetary interiors.