Support for Attendance by Early Career Astronomers, Planetary Scientists, and Earth Scientists to the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in July 2010

该奖项由地球科学司（GEO Directorate）和天文科学司（MPS Directorate）共同赞助，以部分支持15名早期职业天文学家、行星科学家和地球科学家参加2010年7月26日至30日在纽约市举行的第73届气象学会年会。Meteoritical Society是一个非营利、非学术性的学术专业协会，成立于1933年，主要总部设在美国，与教育和研究活动直接相关。该学会出版《陨石学和行星科学》。这次会议将汇集不同领域的专家，讨论最近的研究成果以及与太阳系起源和行星形成和演变有关的主题的教育战略。这一建议将通过扩大地球和行星科学以及天文科学的相关领域的参与，丰富陨石学会年会的科学内容。资金将促进来自相关科学的早期职业美国调查人员的参与，否则他们可能不会参加。会议的交叉主题将包括行星盘建模和观测，小行星动力学和组成，行星天文学，以及行星过程，如玄武岩火山作用，核心形成，行星磁场和影响研究。仪器和计算基础设施是额外的跨学科主题。这些主题都是接近两个天文科学（特别是行星和恒星天文学）和地球科学计划在NSF的智力心脏。 目前正在与这次会议的赞助机构美国自然历史博物馆一起在纽约地区开展教育方面的协同活动

This award is being co-sponsored by the Division of Earth Sciences (GEO Directorate) and the Division of Astronomical Sciences (MPS Directorate) to partially support the attendance of 15 early-career astronomers, planetary scientists and earth scientists to attend the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, July 26-30, 2010 in New York City. The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit, non-academic scholarly professional society founded (1933) and largely based in the US that is directly associated with educational and research activities. The Society publishes Meteoritics and Planetary Science. This meeting will bring together experts in diverse fields to discuss recent research findings as well as strategies for education on topics related to the origins of solar systems, and the formation and evolution of planets. This proposal will enhance the scientific richness of the Meteoritical Society annual meeting by extending participation to allied fields of earth and planetary sciences and astronomical sciences. Funding will facilitate the participation of early career U.S. investigators from allied sciences who might not otherwise attend. Crossover topics for the conference will include planetary disk modeling and observation, asteroid dynamics and composition, planetary astronomy, as well as planetary processes such as basaltic volcanism, core formation, planetary magnetic fields, and impact studies. Instrumentation and computational infrastructure are additional cross-disciplinary topics. These topics are all close to the intellectual heart of both the Astronomical Sciences (particularly planetary and stellar astronomy) and Earth Sciences programs at NSF. Educationally synergistic activities in the New York area are under development with the American Museum of Natural History, a sponsoring institution for this conference