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

该奖项将支持将于2016年8月在索诺马州立大学举行的第四届半年期构造地质与构造论坛。论坛将汇集构造地质学和构造学的专家，进行口头和海报演示、实地考察和短期课程。会议将包括为期三天的专题介绍，其中将包括技术会议，其中将包括诸如断层滑动的量化、岩石圈变形和流变学、断层作用和流体流动、构造微结构的发展和地球科学教育等主题。每期会议将突出当前研究和/或教育的一个重要领域，将由一位杰出的主旨发言人主持，并将展示与该主题有关的工作的相关性。每一次会议都将有充足的时间进行充分的参与者互动。举办该论坛的目的是在公开讨论中最大限度地促进与会者之间的思想交流。会议将提供充分的机会向个别演讲者提问，评估我们目前的知识状况，并考虑未来有成效的研究领域。除了正式会议外，还将进行会前和会后实地考察，以考察加利福尼亚州北部旧金山和索诺马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，以及加利福尼亚州北部其他具有地质意义的地区。短期课程的主题将包括为地球科学的学术生涯做准备的研究生，准备用于电子背散射检测(EBSD)方法分析的样品，教授构造地质学和构造学，构造地质数据的定量和统计处理，构建平衡地质横截面的新方法，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界不同部分的社区建设和个人互动。它将汇集来自研究型大学、文理学院、社区和两年制学院以及为少数族裔服务的机构的教师。重要的是，将举行小组讨论，讨论构造地质学和构造学的关键发展，以及未来的研究重点。这一社区建设努力将有助于建立一支更强大、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。这种环境对研究生特别有用，他们将能够利用论坛的场地和非正式性质来了解其他机构正在进行的研究，会见广泛的教职员工，并发展对他们未来职业生涯非常有价值的有用的联系。学生还将能够在友好的环境中展示自己的工作，在那里他们可以获得深思熟虑和有用的反馈，并提供建立新的科学合作的机会。摘要、实地指导和简短的课程笔记将通过一个专门的网站传播，该网站将向公众开放。

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.