Origins, Carriers, and Implications of Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes (S-MIF)

得克萨斯理工大学的莱昂内尔(Bill)Poirier和麦吉尔大学的Boswell Wing获得了化学特别项目计划和地球生物学和低温地球化学计划的支持，以开展“NASA-NSF联合研讨会：硫同位素非质量分离的起源、载体和意义”。研讨会将于2011年6月12日至14日在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市的摩纳哥酒店举行，约有25至30人参加，其中包括地球化学家、化学物理学家、理论和实验人员以及大气模型师。预计研讨会将为研究奠定基础，帮助我们了解为地球上生命的出现奠定基础的重要大气变化。讲习班参加者本身自然会开展长期的合作和结成战略联盟，他们代表了不同的大学、国家和国际实验室、国籍以及科学学科，但这次讲习班的成果将得到非常广泛的传播。在选择潜在参与者时，还适当考虑了实现性别、年龄和种族的平衡。为了促进国内研究生培训和博士后指导，还将鼓励来自这一组下一代研究人员的一些参与者参加研讨会。这里提出的高度跨学科类型的研讨会对这些科学研究界的新成员尤其有益。

Lionel (Bill) Poirier of Texas Tech University and Boswell Wing of McGill University are supported by an award from the Chemistry Special Projects program and the Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry program to conduct the "Joint NASA-NSF Workshop: Origins, Carriers and Implications of Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes". The workshop will be held at the Hotel Monaco in Alexandria, VA on June 12-14 2011, with roughly 25-30 participants including geochemists, chemical physicists, both theoretical and experimental, and atmospheric modelers. The workshop is expected to lay the basis for research that will help us understand the important atmospheric transformations that laid the basis for the emergence of life on our planet. Long-lasting collaborations and strategic alliances may naturally arise among the workshop participants themselves, who represent a diverse range of universities, national and international laboratories, and nationalities, as well as scientific disciplines, but the findings of this workshop will be disseminated very broadly. In choosing the potential participants, due consideration has also been paid to achieving a balance of gender, age, and ethnicity. To foster domestic graduate student training and postdoctoral mentorship, a number of participants from this group of next-generation researchers will also be encouraged to attend the workshop. A workshop of the highly interdisciplinary type proposed here should be especially beneficial for these newer members of the scientific research community.