Proposal for Consultations to Identify The Role of Geochronology in Transformative Earth Sciences Research

该奖项为委员会在2014年的Goldschmidt会议和美国地质学会会议期间与地质年代学生产者和消费者社区的审议和协商提供支持。目标是记录地质年代学利益相关者的知识和技术目标，并将这些愿望转化为NSF地球科学部门在优先考虑资助计划时可以考虑的建议。拟议的会议将使社区参与确定地质年代学的潜在优先支持领域，确定地质年代学消费者需求方面的差距，并预测下一代科学家的培训和教育需求。 指导委员会将汇编这些磋商期间收集的信息，并将其纳入一份报告，包括结论和建议，预计将于2014年12月发表。

This award provides support for committee deliberations and consultations with the geochronology producer and consumer communities during the Goldschmidt Conference and Geological Society of America Meeting in 2014. The goal is to document the intellectual and technical goals of geochronology stakeholders and translate those aspirations into suggestions that NSF's Division of Earth Sciences can consider in prioritizing funding initiatives. The proposed meetings will allow community input into defining the areas of potential priority support for geochronology, identify gaps in the requirements of geochronologic consumers, and forecast the training and education needs of the next generation of scientists. Information gathered during these consultations will be compiled by the steering committee and consolidated in a report, including findings and recommendations, with an expected publication date of December, 2014.