Meeting: Travel Support for Diverse Early Career Scientists to Attend the 16th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, University of Exeter, UK, 2016

国际行为生态学学会第30届年会将由联合王国埃克塞特大学主办。会议以其著名的全体发言者而闻名。今年也不例外。会议将由理查德·道金斯主持开幕，全体会议由马尔特·安德森、多萝西切尼、蒂姆·克拉顿·布罗克、迷迭香·格兰特、霍皮·霍克斯特拉、娜奥米·皮尔斯特雷弗·普莱斯主持。此外，与会者将通过讲座，海报和研讨会介绍他们的工作。ISBE 2016为获奖者提供了一个最重要的机会，让他们了解并参与行为生态学中的主题讨论，包括：选择和冲突，社会行为，沟通，行为可塑性，捕食，觅食，父母照顾，以及行为的生态学，遗传学，神经生物学和生理学。向青年科学家（终身教职前的教师、博士后助理和研究生）提供的财政援助将使那些本来可能负担不起旅费的人有可能参加。一个由三名美国ISBE代表组成的委员会将评估青年科学家参与者的资金申请。委员会成员致力于确保IEC的多样性得到加强，并将根据性别、职业阶段和科学界代表性不足的群体的成员资格选择一批多样化的科学家。出席和参加会议为美国动物行为学家提供了一个巨大的机会，与国际观众分享他们的研究，与杰出的国际研究人员互动，结识新同事，并发起新的国际合作。此外，每位获奖者将从自己的演示数据或会议演示数据中创建“数据块”。数据金块是让K-12学生使用真实的数据解决问题、绘图练习和数据分析的工具。在NSF GK 12之前对数据库的支持下，Data Nuggets在全国各地的学校中使用，并公开提供。

The 30th annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology will be hosted by the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. The meeting is known for its host of renowned plenary speakers. This year will be no exception. The meeting will be opened by Richard Dawkins, with plenaries by Malte Andersson, Dorothy Cheney, Tim Clutton-Brock, Rosemary Grant, Hopi Hoekstra, Naomi Pierce & Trevor Price. In addition, attendees will present their work through talks, posters and symposia. ISBE 2016 provides a foremost opportunity for awardees to learn about and contribute to discussion of topics within behavioral ecology including: selection and conflict, social behavior, communication, behavioral plasticity, predation, foraging, parental care, and the ecology, genetics, neurobiology, and physiology of behavior. The financial assistance provided to young scientists (pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students) will make it possible for individuals to attend who might not otherwise have been able to afford travel expenses. A committee of three United States ISBE representatives will evaluate applications for funds from young scientist participants. The committee members are committed to assuring that diversity will be enhanced at the IEC and will select a diverse group of scientists with respect to gender, career stage, and membership in groups underrepresented in science. Attendance and participation in the meeting offers a tremendous opportunity for American animal behaviorists to share their research with an international audience, interact with preeminent international researchers, meet new colleagues and to initiate new international collaborations. In addition, each travel awardee will create a "data nugget" from their own presented data or that of a conference presentation. Data nuggets are worksheets that engage K-12 students in problem-solving, graphing exercises, and data analysis using real data. With prior NSF GK12 support for the database, Data Nuggets are used in schools across the country, and are publicly available.