Support for Beginning Investigators to Attend the 16th SEDI Symposium

这笔奖金将部分用于支付第16届地球深部研究研讨会(SEDI)的参会费。会议将于2018年7月8日至13日在加拿大埃德蒙顿举行。SEDI是一个致力于研究地球深部的国际科学组织。SEDI的最终目标是加强对地球深层过去的演化和当前的热、化学和动力学状态的了解，以及对地球内部对地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响的了解。“深部内部”通常被认为是核心和下地幔，但人们的兴趣往往延伸到表面，例如，在研究地幔羽流或下降的岩石圈板块的动力学方面。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题和问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁和地球深部的演化，极端条件下的物质性质，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-地幔相互作用，以及深部地球化学库的性质和位置。该研讨会将通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式的会议上促进与所有级别的研究人员的对话，为美国研究生和初级研究人员的跨学科教育做出贡献。国际格式是对苹果酒等美国国家团体努力的补充，对于那些由NSF CSEDI计划资助或寻求资金的人来说，将是有用的。SEDI的结构本质上是跨学科的，为在广泛的主题上进行内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，有助于我们对地球深处和其他行星内部的了解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will partially cover participant costs for the 16th Symposium on Study of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI). The meeting will be held in Edmonton, Canada from July 8-13, 2018. SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The ultimate goal of SEDI is an enhanced understanding of the past evolution and current thermal, chemical and dynamical state of the Earth's deep interior and of the effect of that the interior has on structures and processes observed at the surface of the Earth. The "deep interior" is generally considered to be the core and lower mantle, but interest often extends to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, material properties at extreme conditions, structure and dynamics of the core and mantle, core-mantle interactions, and the nature and location of deep geochemical reservoirs. This workshop will contribute to interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and beginning researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop-style meeting. The international format complements efforts by US national groups such as CIDER and will be useful to those funded under or seeking funding from the NSF CSEDI program. The structure of SEDI is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and international collaborations on a broad range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep earth and other planetary interiors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.