The International Commission on Stratigraphy: developing global geostandards through international collaboration and consensus

国际地层学委员会：通过国际合作和共识制定全球地质标准--EAR-1347494斯坦利·芬尼，加州州立大学ABSTRACTPI请求提供三年资金，以支持国际地层学委员会的活动，国际地层学委员会是国际地质科学联合会最大和历史最悠久的科学机构。ICS的主要目标是使国际年代地层表标准化，国际年代地层表是地质时间刻度的基础，也是表达地质时间的全球语言。所申请的资金将使国际地层学会能够大大增加其活动，以便1)选择确定国际年代地层图单位的全球层型断面和点所需的野外调查和实地业务会议；2)振兴国际地层学会各小组委员会的网站，使其成为各小组委员会编制的地层信息的主要档案和门户网站；以及3)为来自不发达国家的青年科学家和科学家提供差旅支助，以参加各小组委员会的实地调查、实地业务会议和国际专题讨论会。

The International Commission on Stratigraphy: developing global geostandards through international collaboration and consensusEAR-1347494 Stanley Finney, California State UniversityABSTRACTPI requests three years of funding to support the activities of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the largest and oldest constituent scientific body of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The primary objective of ICS is to standardize the International Chronostratigraphic Chart, which is the basis for the Geologic Time Scale and serves as the global language for expressing geologic time. The funding requested would allow ICS to greatly increase its activities to include 1) field investigations and field business meetings necessary for the selection of Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) that define the units of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart; 2) rejuvenation of websites of ICS subcommissions in order that the websites become the primary archives and portals for stratigraphic information produced by the subcommissions; and 3) travel support for young scientists and scientists from under-developed countries to participate in field investigations, field business meetings, and international symposia of the subcommissions.