Transantarctic Mountains Science-meeting

知识价值：横贯南极山脉（TAM）包含了南极基岩的暴露，提供了南极大陆演化的历史。TAM还为极端微生物创造了微栖息地，并承载了记录冰盖和南极洲历史的未固结沉积物。气候变化。人们对该地区现存的动物和植物组合、气候或地球物理的了解要少得多。PI建议举办研讨会，以促进多学科研究人员的聚集，就研究TAM中正在发生或已经发生的过程交换意见。该研讨会将于2013年9月在明尼阿波利斯举行，由极地地理空间中心在当地组织。更广泛的影响：TAM的研究人员来自地球科学、大气与气候科学、冰川学、生态学和进化科学等不同领域。本次研讨会将鼓励研究生、博士后和早期职业研究人员的参与，组委会将努力包括一个多样化的参与者群体。

Intellectual Merit: The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) encompasses exposures of Antarctic bedrock that provide a history of Antarctic continental evolution. The TAM also creates microhabitats for extremophiles and hosts unconsolidated sedimentary deposits that record the history of the ice sheet and Antarctica?s changing climate. Much less is known of the extant faunal and floral assemblages, climate, or geophysics of this region. The PI proposes a workshop to facilitate the gathering of multi disciplinary researchers to exchange ideas for investigating processes that are occurring or that have occurred in the TAM. This workshop will take place in September 2013 in Minneapolis and will be locally organized by Polar Geospatial Center.Broader impacts: TAM researchers come from diverse fields in geoscience, atmospheric and climate science, glaciology, and ecology and evolutionary science. This workshop will encourage the participation of graduate students, post-docs, and early career researchers and the organizing committee will strive to include a diverse group of participants.