Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2012 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada, June 24-29, 2012

2012年在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的V.M.Goldschmidt会议将为年轻的地球化学家提供一个极好的机会，让他们与科学界分享他们的研究，了解世界各地正在进行的尖端研究，并与专门从事其特定感兴趣领域的资深科学家互动。会议将讨论的专题问题涉及广泛的分学科，包括早期地球、太阳系、气候、海洋化学和大陆地壳的演化；深部地球物质的形成、演化和动力学；俯冲、地幔楔形和弧形火山活动；地球表面过程；界面地球化学；地球资源；大气气溶胶；全球地球化学循环；人类活动对环境的影响；计算地球化学；分析技术；地球微生物学；生命和天体生物学的演化；地球化学动力学；医学地球化学；地球工程和修复；以及水文地球化学和水循环。除了口头和海报演示课程外，学生们还将有机会参加实地考察和短期课程。这项建议提出了一种方法，公平地选择和分配旅行资助资金给最合格的学生申请者，以确保30人或更多人有机会从会议上汇集的所有资源中受益。除了从NSF申请的资金外，地球化学学会还将捐赠10,000美元，使学生机会总数达到40个。国际科学会议是各种经验水平的研究人员的主要联系渠道。对于学生来说，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，戈德施密特会议在将年轻的研究人员介绍给本国机构以外的地球化学界方面发挥着至关重要的作用。对于努力在科学界站稳脚跟的学生来说，这种国际学习和网络体验的挥之不去的影响可能会改变他们的生活。拟议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学生，他们可能因为本国机构的经济限制而无法参加，在他们各自职业生涯的这个转折点上，受益于这次会议提供的所有优势。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，并尽可能确保获奖者代表当今地球科学研究生社区抽样的各种人口多样性。鼓励代表人数不足的群体参加诸如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。

The 2012 V. M. Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada 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 evolution of the early Earth, the solar system, climate, ocean chemistry, and continental crust; formation, evolution and dynamics of deep earth materials; subduction, the mantle wedge and arc volcanism; earth surface processes; interfacial geochemistry; earth resources; atmospheric aerosols; global geochemical cycles; environmental impacts of human activities; computational geochemistry; analytical techniques; geomicrobiology; evolution of life and astrobiology; geochemical kinetics; medical geochemistry; geoengineering and remediation; and hydrogeochemistry and the water cycle. In addition to oral and poster presentation sessions, students will have an opportunity to participate in field trips as well as short courses. 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.International scientific meetings are the primary networking outlet for researchers of all experience levels. For 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 student struggling to gain a foothold in the scientific community.The proposed student travel support program will enable the best and brightest 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. Encouraging participation by underrepresented groups in international events such as the Goldschmidt Conference will increase the diversity of the core group of senior geoscientists in the years to come.