Support for Beginning Scientists to Attend 14th SEDI meeting in Tokyo, Japan

提供的资金部分用于支付初出茅庐的科学家参加第14届地球深层内部研究专题讨论会的费用。会议将于2014年8月4日至8日在日本东京举行。 该提案将通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式会议上与各级研究人员进行对话，为美国研究生和初级研究人员的跨学科教育做出贡献。国际格式补充了美国国家团体（如CIDER）的努力，并将对那些在NSF CSEDI计划下资助或寻求资助的人有用。SEDI的结构本质上是跨学科的，为国内和国际合作提供了许多机会，这些合作涉及广泛的主题，有助于我们对地球深部和其他行星内部的理解。SEDI是一个致力于地球深部内部研究的国际科学组织。SEDI的最终目标是加强对地球深部过去的演变和目前的热、化学和动力状态的了解，以及对地球内部对在地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响的了解。 “深部内部”通常被认为是地核和下地幔，但兴趣往往延伸到表面，例如，在地幔柱或下降的岩石圈板块的动力学研究。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题和问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁和地球深部内部的演化，极端条件下的材料特性，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-幔相互作用，以及深部地球化学储层的性质和位置。

Funds are provided to partially cover participant costs for beginning scientists at the 14th Symposium on Study of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI). The meeting will be held in Tokyo, Japan from August 4-8, 2014. This proposal will contribute to interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and beginning researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop-style meeting. The international format complements efforts by US national groups such as CIDER and will be useful to those funded under or seeking funding from the NSF CSEDI program. The structure of SEDI is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and inter- national collaborations on a broad range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep Earth and other planetary interiors.SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The ultimate goal of SEDI is an enhanced understanding of the past evolution and current thermal, chemical and dynamical state of the Earth's deep interior and of the effect the interior has on structures and processes observed at the surface of the Earth. The 'deep interior' is generally considered to be the core and lower mantle, but interest often extends to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, material properties at extreme conditions, structure and dynamics of the core and mantle, core-mantle interactions, and the nature and location of deep geochemical reservoirs.