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

第30届国际行为生态学学会年会将由英国埃克塞特大学主办。这次会议以邀请著名的全体会议发言人而闻名。今年也不例外。会议将由理查德·道金斯致开幕词，马尔特·安德森、多萝西·切尼、蒂姆·克拉顿-布洛克、罗斯玛丽·格兰特、霍皮·胡克斯特拉、娜奥米·皮尔斯和特雷弗·普莱斯作全体发言。此外，与会者还将通过讲座、海报和专题讨论会来展示他们的作品。ISBE 2016为获奖者提供了一个学习和参与行为生态学主题讨论的重要机会，包括：选择和冲突，社会行为，沟通，行为可塑性，捕食，觅食，亲代照顾，以及生态学，遗传学，神经生物学和行为生理学。向年轻科学家（终身教职前教员、博士后助理和研究生）提供的经济援助将使那些可能无法负担旅行费用的人有可能参加。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、职业阶段和在科学界代表性不足的群体中的成员资格选择一个多样化的科学家群体。出席和参与会议为美国动物行为学家提供了一个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的绝佳机会。此外，每位旅行获奖者将根据他们自己展示的数据或会议演示的数据创建一个“数据金块”。数据掘金是让K-12学生参与解决问题、绘图练习和使用真实数据进行数据分析的工作表。由于之前NSF GK12对数据库的支持，数据掘金在全国各地的学校使用，并且是公开的。

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.