Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, August 1st - 3rd, 2016

该奖项将支持第四届构造地质学和构造学论坛，该论坛将于2016年8月在索诺玛州立大学举行。论坛将汇集构造地质学和构造学方面的专家，进行口头和海报报告、实地考察和短期课程。会议将包括为期三天的演讲，其中包括技术会议，主题包括断层滑动的量化、岩石圈变形和流变、断层和流体流动、构造微观结构的发展以及地球科学教育。每次会议将突出当前研究和/或教育的一个重要领域，将由一位著名的主旨演讲者主持，并将展示与该主题相关的工作。每次会议都会有海报会议，有充足的时间让参与者充分互动。论坛的组织将最大限度地促进与会者在公开讨论中交换意见。会议将提供充足的机会向个人演讲者提问，评估我们的知识现状，并考虑未来研究的生产领域。除正式会议外，还将在会前和会后进行实地考察，考察加州北部旧金山和索诺玛地区选定地区的地质情况，包括圣安德烈亚斯断层和相关断层系统，以及加州北部其他地质兴趣地区。短期课程的主题将包括为研究生在地球科学领域的学术生涯做准备，准备用电子背散射检测（EBSD）方法进行分析的样品，教授构造地质学和构造学，构造地质学数据的定量和统计处理，构造平衡地质截面的新方法，以及使用有限元建模分析地质和构造结构。该论坛旨在促进构造地质社区不同领域的社区建设和个人互动。它将汇集研究型大学、文理学院、社区和两年制学院以及少数族裔服务机构的教员。重要的是，将有小组讨论在构造地质学和构造学的关键发展，以及未来的研究重点应该是什么。这种社区建设的努力将有助于创造一个更强大、更有活力的科学家群体，并有助于向研究生和高级本科生介绍构造地质学和构造学学科。这种环境对研究生来说特别有用，他们将能够利用论坛的场地和非正式的性质来了解其他机构正在进行的研究，结识各种各样的教师，并建立有用的联系，这对他们未来的职业生涯将有很大的价值。学生也将能够在一个友好的环境中展示他们自己的工作，在那里他们可以获得周到和有用的反馈，并提供建立新的科学合作的机会。摘要、实地指南和短期课程笔记将通过一个专门的网站向公众发布。

This award will support the fourth biannual Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, which will be held in August 2016 at Sonoma State University. The forum will bring together specialists in structural geology and tectonics for oral and poster presentations, field trips, and short courses. The meeting will include three days of presentations that will include technical sessions that will include topics such as quantification of fault slip, lithospheric deformation and rheology, faulting and fluid flow, development of tectonic microstructures, and geoscience education. Each session will highlight an important area of current research and/or education, will be anchored by a distinguished keynote speaker, and will showcase relevance of work on the topic. Poster sessions with abundant time for full participant interaction will accompany each session. The forum will be organized to maximize the exchange of ideas between participants in open discussions. Sessions will provide ample opportunity to ask questions of individual presenters, assess the current state of our knowledge, and consider productive areas for future research. In addition to the formal meeting, there will be pre- and post-meeting field trips to examine the geology of selected areas in the San Francisco and Sonoma areas of northern California, including the San Andreas Fault and related fault systems, as well as other areas of geologic interest in northern California. Short course topics will include preparing graduate students for academic careers in the earth sciences, preparation of samples for analysis by electron backscatter detection (EBSD) methods, teaching structural geology and tectonics, quantitative and statistical treatment of structural geology data, new methods of constructing balanced geological cross sections, and analysis of geologic and tectonics structures using finite element modeling. The forum is designed to facilitate community building and personal interaction within different segments of the structural geology community. It will bring together faculty from research universities, liberal arts colleges, community and two-year colleges, and minority-serving institutions. Importantly, there will be group discussions on critical developments in structural geology and tectonics, and what future research priorities should be. This community building effort will help create a stronger, more vibrant group of scientists and help introduce graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the structural geology and tectonics disciplines. The setting will be particularly useful for graduate students, who will be able to use the venue and informal nature of the forum to find out what research is taking place at other institutions, meet a wide range of faculty, and develop useful contacts which will be of great value to their future careers. Students will also be able to present their own work in a friendly environment where they can obtain thoughtful and useful feedback, as well as providing opportunity to build new scientific collaborations. Abstracts, field guides, and short course notes will be disseminated through a dedicated website that will be publicly accessible.