Support for 2016 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on Rock Deformation

该项目为美国早期职业专业人士和学生提供旅行和注册支持，以参加2016年8月21日至26日在NH安多弗举行的Gordon Research Conference(从慢变形到快变形再返回)。岩石变形会议系列突出了地球上和地球上岩石变形所涉及的各种时间和空间尺度的前沿研究，该计划将展示岩石变形的最新进展和未来趋势，以及在构造地质学、地震学、地球动力学、行星地质学和能源与环境工程中的应用。会议的中心主题包括：(1)断层和剪切带的结构和行为；(2)岩石-岩石界面的动力学：力和摩擦；(3)岩土工程和诱发的岩石变形；(4)慢地震和快地震；(5)孔隙流体和岩石变形；(6)颗粒的塑性和韧性流变学；(7)微结构的演变和对流变学的影响；以及(8)岩石变形模型中的耦合时间尺度。该项目还支持将于8月20-21日与岩石变形戈登研究会议一起举行的岩石变形戈登研究研讨会。该研讨会是为研究生、博士后研究员和其他具有类似经验和教育水平的科学家设计的，重点是结合观察、理论和建模来了解岩石变形过程，重点是使用理论和实验来阐明颗粒/集料尺度的过程和将这些过程提升到现场条件的数值努力，以及实验室和现场数据如何提供变形过程的数字模型信息和信息。该项目支持美国的早期职业科学家参加一年两次的戈登岩石变形研究会议和相关的戈登研究研讨会。这次会议汇集了国内外研究岩石和矿物在不同应力、压力和温度条件下的行为的研究人员，以了解地壳和地幔的变形。会议聚焦于前沿话题，包括断裂带结构、过程和行为，特别强调地震机制。其他会议的重点是地球材料破裂和流动的详细机制。相关研讨会为研究生、博士后研究员和早期职业研究人员提供了专业发展的机会，并集中讨论了他们的研究。通过早期职业科学家和学生的支持，该项目有助于STEM劳动力的发展，并支持妇女和代表不足的少数群体充分参与STEM。

This project provides funding for travel and registration support to U.S. based early-career professionals and students to attend the Gordon Research Conference "From Slow to Fast Deformation and Back", held in Andover, NH from August 21-26, 2016. The Rock Deformation conference series highlights the cutting-edge research on the various time and spatial scales involved in the deformation of rocks in and on the Earth, and the program will showcase recent advances and future trends in rock deformation and applications in structural geology, seismology, geodynamics, planetary geology, and energy & environmental engineering. Central themes for the conference include: (1) architecture and behavior of faults and shear zones; (2) dynamics of rock-rock interfaces: forces and friction; (3) geoengineering and induced rock deformation; (4) slow and fast earthquakes; (5) pore fluid and rock deformation; (6) plasticity of grains and ductile rheology; (7) evolving microstructures and effect on rheology; and (8) coupling time scales in rock deformation models. The project also supports the Rock Deformation Gordon Research Seminar to be held August 20-21 in conjunction with the Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference. The seminar, designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education, focuses on combining observation, theory and modeling to understand rock deformation processes with an emphasis on the use of theory and experimentation to elucidate grain/aggregate-scale processes and numerical efforts to upscale these processes to field conditions, and how laboratory and field data inform and are informed by numerical models of deformation processes.This project supports the participation of U.S. based early career scientists in the biannual Gordon Research Conference on Rock Deformation and the associated Gordon Research Seminar. The conference assembles national and international researchers who study the behavior of rocks and minerals under various stress, pressure, and temperature conditions in order to understand deformation of the Earth's crust and mantle. The conference focuses on cutting-edge topics that include fault zone structure, processes, and behavior with particular emphasis on earthquake mechanisms. Other session focus on the detailed mechanisms of fracture and flow of Earth materials. The associated seminar provides graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career researchers opportunity for professional development and focused discussions about their research. Through support of early career scientists and students, the project contributes to the development of STEM workforce and also supports full participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM.