Travel Support for the 6th Orogenic Lherzolites Conference

该奖项将为参加2014年5月4日至15日在摩洛哥马拉喀什举行的第六届造山岩会议的研究生和博士后科学家提供部分旅费和相关费用。造山带、蛇绿岩、大陆边缘和海底等对地球上地幔研究感兴趣的国际科学界隔很长一段时间召开造山带、蛇绿岩会议。在这些会议上，国际科学家介绍了有关浅层地幔演化，岩浆成因以及橄榄岩和蛇纹岩在不同构造环境中的作用的新研究。这次即将召开的会议的总体目标是召集研究橄榄岩块和上地幔过程的专家参加实地会议，分享最近的成果，并在小组环境中讨论关键的露头。许多主要在实验室工作或使用遥感技术的地球化学家、岩石学家和地球物理学家，特别是海洋科学家，很少有机会检查裸露在岩石露头上的、在野外可见的地幔过程记录。在过去的这类会议中，有一个重点是为所有参加会议的科学家提供参观经典野外露头的机会，这对处于职业生涯早期的学生和博士后来说是一个特别宝贵的教育经历。贝尼布塞拉造山热橄榄岩就是这样一个典型的地幔地区，在这里，地幔融化过程首次在次大陆或大陆边缘环境中被发现和研究。该奖项将有利于早期职业科学家参加主要的国际会议，该会议专门关注上地幔组成和过程的研究和实地观察。他们的参与将使他们能够通过实地检查地幔露头和过程，以及通过与不经常聚集的一大群国际专家的互动，获得促进其职业发展的工具。这次会议也为学生和博士后提供了一个介绍，使他们能够作为一个群体相互联系，也可以与国际科学界的其他人一起研究这些研究问题。预计这些个人互动将为下一代科学家带来有价值的研究合作。

This award will provide partial support for the travel and associated expenses of graduate students and post doctoral scientists to attend the 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, May 4-15, 2014. The Orogenic Lherzolite Conferences are held at widely spaced intervals to bring together the international scientific community interested in studies of the Earth's upper mantle, as exposed in alpine Orogenic belts, ophiolites, continental margins, and the sea floor. In these conference, international scientists present new research relating to shallow mantle evolution, magma genesis, and the role of peridotites and serpentinites in different tectonic environments. The overall objective of this upcoming meeting will be to assemble specialists in studies of peridotite massifs and upper mantle processes for a field conference to share recent results and discuss key outcrops in a group setting. Many geochemists, petrologists and geophysicists primarily situated in laboratories or using remote sensing, particularly marine scientists, have little opportunity to examine the record of mantle processes visible in the field as exposed in rock outcrops. In past conferences of this nature, there has been a focus on providing all participating scientists with the opportunity to visit classic field outcrops, which is a particularly valuable education experience for students and post-docs at the early stage of their careers. The Beni Bousera orogenic lherzolite is one such classic mantle locality, where processes of mantle melting were first identified and studied in a sub-continental or continental margin setting.This award will benefit early career scientists to participate in the major international meeting that is exclusively focused on research and field observation of upper mantle composition and processes. Their participation will enable them the tools to advance their careers both through examining mantle outcrops and processes in-situ, and through interaction with a large group of international experts that is only infrequently assembled. This meeting also serves as an introduction for students and post-docs to allow them to network with each other as a cohort and also with others from the international scientific community working on these research questions. It is expected that these personal interactions will lead to valuable research collaborations for the next generation of scientists.