The Eleventh (11th) Light and Color in Nature Conference; Fairbanks, Alaska; August 5-8, 2013

这项拨款为参加第11届自然光与色会议的早期职业和/或代表性不足的群体提供旅行资金。34年来，研究人员大约每隔3年聚集一次，分享他们对自然界中观察到的光学现象的最新研究结果。这些会议是真正特殊的场合，讨论的主题从严格的数学理论的光晕形成到古代美洲原住民艺术中彩虹的存在。这些会议讨论的主题包括但不完全限于以下内容：彩虹、冰晶光环、光晕、日冕、虹彩、天空颜色、大气能见度、折射效应、对比现象、夜光云、闪电光学、极光、水和空气中吸收和散射产生的颜色、水和水面上的颜色和光、生物学和地质学中的虹彩和颜色。这些会议特别成功地激发了关于自然光学主题的档案研究论文和流行文章、电影和书籍。每次会议之后都有《美国光学学会杂志》或《应用光学》的“户外光与色”专题。

This grant supports travel funding for early career and/or underrepresented groups to attend the 11th Light and Color in Nature Conference. For 34 years, researchers have been gathering at approximately three-year intervals to share the latest results of their investigations into optical phenomena observed in nature. These meetings are truly special occasions where topics from rigorous mathematical theories of halo formation to the existence of rainbows in ancient Native American art are discussed. The topics addressed at these meetings include, but are not entirely limited to, the following: Rainbows, ice crystal halos, glories, coronas, iridescence, sky color, atmospheric visibility, refraction effects, contrast phenomena, noctilucent clouds, optics of lightning, auroras, colors created by absorption and scattering in water and air, color and light in water and on water surfaces, iridescence and colors in biology and geology. These meetings have been particularly successful at motivating archival research papers and popular articles, films, and books on the subject of optics in nature. Each meeting is followed by a Light and Color in the Open Air feature issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America or Applied Optics.