Workshop: 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum; Brunswick, ME; June 2020

该奖项将支持第六届两年一次的构造地质学和构造学论坛，该论坛将于2020年6月15日至19日在缅因州不伦瑞克的鲍登学院举行。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。构造地质学和构造学课程为构造地质学和构造学社区提供了一个框架，以促进教育者和研究者之间的交流、发展和推进教学和研究。这些论坛在确定应用于构造地质学和构造学的关键教学进展和方法、构造地质学和构造学中的重要科学问题，同时启动解决这些问题的合作关系方面发挥着关键作用。会议将包括为期三天的演讲，其中包括技术会议，涉及最近发表的社区愿景文件确定的主题，该文件强调了构造学的重要研究领域。研讨会还将确定和讨论教学的进步、进步和方法，特别是当它们适用于教学构造地质学和构造学的一些学科特定挑战时，并讨论构造学研究的未来方向。它将创造机会，通过思想和技术的交叉授粉来促进新的合作，并将为早期职业专业人士和学生提供一个平台，在他们专业发展的关键阶段支持和促进他们的职业发展。按照以往会议的形式，每一届会议都将突出当前研究和/或教育的一个重要领域，由一位著名的主旨演讲者主持，并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，还将进行实地考察，考察邻近地区选定区域的地质情况，重点是实地教学的最佳实践，并引导更多的实地考察。构造地质学和构造学论坛旨在促进构造地质学社区不同部门之间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。来自传统代表性不足群体的演讲者以及来自两年制和四年制大学的专业人士将在2020年论坛的所有组织委员会中提供不同的代表。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。非正式的指导会议将为早期职业专业人士和学生在构造地质学和构造学的职业生涯中提供机会。学生将在一个友好的环境中展示自己的作品，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。本次论坛的一项重要贡献将包括一场会议，旨在确定一场会议，旨在探讨促进课堂公平、多样性和包容性的最佳做法。通过关注课堂活动和方法，可以确定其他机构可以采用的成功战略，以尽量减少“管道泄漏”，这是已知的地球科学中代表性不足群体保留问题的一部分。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。对构造地质学和构造学论坛的持续支持有助于地球科学界的长期健康、活力和基础设施。构造地质学与构造学论坛通过强调STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）教育和各级教育工作者的发展，通过促进下一代科学家的培训，通过促进STEM中代表性不足群体的扩大，以及通过促进公众科学素养的提高，造福社会并推进预期的社会成果。这些活动有助于提高美国的经济和科学竞争力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 support the sixth biannual Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, which will be held June 15-19, 2020 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The forum will bring together specialists in structural geology and tectonics for oral and poster presentations, field trips, and short courses. The Structural Geology and Tectonics Program provides the framework for the structural geology and tectonics community to communicate, develop, and advance teaching and research among educators and investigators. These forums play a key role in identifying key pedagogical advances and methods applied to structural geology and tectonics, important science questions in structural geology and tectonics, while initiating collaborative relationships to address these questions. The meeting will include three days of presentations that will include technical sessions that involve themes that have been identified by a recently published community vision document that highlighted important research areas in tectonics. The workshop will also identify and discuss pedagogical advances and advances and methods, specifically as they apply to some of the discipline specific challenges of teaching structural geology and tectonics and discuss future directions in tectonics research. It will create opportunities to foster new collaborations through the cross-pollination of ideas and techniques, and it will provide a platform for early career professionals and students that supports and promotes their careers at a critical stage in their professional development. Following the format of previous meetings, each session will highlight an important area of current research and/or education that 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 field trips to examine the geology of selected areas of adjacent areas that will focus on best practices for teaching in the field and leading more accessible field trips. The Structural Geology and Tectonics 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. Speakers who identify as members of traditionally underrepresented groups as well as professionals from two- and four- year colleges will provide diverse representation across all of the organizing committees for the 2020 forum. 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. Informal mentoring sessions will facilitate opportunities for early career professionals and students in navigating careers in structural geology and tectonics. Students will 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. An important contribution of this forum will include a session aimed identifying one session will be aimed at best practices to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in the classroom. By focusing on classroom activities and approaches, successful strategies can be identified that can be adopted by other institutions to minimize the “leaky pipeline” that is known to be part of the problem with retention of underrepresented groups in the geosciences. Abstracts, field guides, and short course notes will be disseminated through a dedicated website that will be publicly accessible. Continued support for the Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum contributes to the long-term health, vitality, and infrastructure of the Earth Science community. The Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum benefits society and advances desired societal outcomes by its emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and educator development at a variety of levels, by contributing to the training of the next generation of scientists, by contributing to the broadening of underrepresented groups in STEM, and by contributing to the advancement of scientific literacy of the public. These activities contribute to the increased economic and scientific competitiveness of the United States.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.