Travel Support for the 6th Orogenic Lherzolites Conference

该奖项将部分资助研究生和博士后科学家参加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二辉橄榄岩会议的旅费和相关费用。造山二辉橄榄岩会议以广泛的间隔举行，以聚集国际科学界对高山造山带、蛇绿岩、大陆边缘和海底中暴露的地球上地幔的研究感兴趣。在这些会议上，国际科学家介绍了与浅地幔演化、岩浆成因以及橄榄岩和蛇纹岩在不同构造环境中的作用有关的新研究。这次即将举行的会议的总体目标是召集橄榄岩地块和上地幔过程研究方面的专家，召开实地会议，分享最新成果，并在小组背景下讨论主要露头。许多地球化学家、岩石学家和地球物理学家主要在实验室或使用遥感技术，特别是海洋科学家，几乎没有机会检查野外露出的岩石中可见的地幔过程的记录。在过去这种性质的会议上，重点是为所有参会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阶段的学生和博士后来说是一种特别宝贵的教育经验。贝尼·布塞拉造山二辉橄榄岩就是这样一个经典的地幔所在地，在那里，地幔熔融过程首次在次大陆或大陆边缘环境中被发现和研究。这一奖项将有利于早期职业科学家参加专门关注上地幔成分和过程的研究和野外观测的重大国际会议。他们的参与将使他们能够通过实地研究地幔露头和过程，以及通过与一大批不经常聚集的国际专家进行互动，来推进他们的职业生涯。这次会议也是对学生和博士后的介绍，使他们能够作为一个群体相互联系，并与从事这些研究问题的国际科学界的其他人建立联系。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.