Support for Beginning Investigators to Attend the 17th SEDI Symposium; Taipei, Taiwan; July 6-10, 2020

该奖项将提供资金，部分支付将于2020年7月6日至10日在台湾台北举行的第17届地球深部内部研究研讨会（SEDI）的初始研究人员参与费用。初级研究人员被定义为研究生，博士后，在某些情况下，非常初级的教师。SEDI会议特别有利于开始研究者，因为会议规模小，但跨学科，他们提供了足够的时间来讨论紧迫的科学问题。这项提议的目的是支持下一代地球深部科学家。申请将通过SEDI名录服务器广泛征求，申请人将根据他们的摘要和他们的情况说明得到支持。本次研讨会将通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式会议上与各级研究人员进行对话，为美国研究生和初级研究人员的跨学科教育做出贡献。国际格式补充了美国国家团体（如CIDER）的努力，并将对那些在NSF CSEDI计划下资助或寻求资助的人有用。SEDI及其会议的结构本质上是跨学科的，为内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，这些合作涉及广泛的主题，有助于我们对地球深部的理解。SEDI是一个致力于地球深部内部研究的国际科学组织。SEDI的最终目标是加深对地球深部过去的演变和目前的热、化学和动力状态的了解，以及地球内部对在地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响。“深部内部”包括地核和下地幔，但人们的兴趣往往延伸到表面，例如，在地幔柱或岩石圈板块下降的动力学研究。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题和问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁学和地球深部内部的演化，极端条件下的材料性质，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-幔相互作用，以及深层地球化学储层的性质和位置。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This award will provide funds to partially cover beginning investigator participant costs for the 17th Symposium on Study of Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI), to be held in Taipei, Taiwan from July 6-10, 2020. Beginning investigators are defined as graduate students, post-docs and, under some circumstances, very junior faculty. SEDI meetings are particularly conducive for beginning investigators as the meetings are small but cross-disciplinary, and they provide ample time for discussion of the pressing scientific questions. The objective of this proposal is to support the next generation of deep Earth scientists. Applications will be broadly solicited through the SEDI listserve, and applicants will be supported based on their abstracts and a statement of their situation. This workshop will contribute to the 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 and its meetings 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.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 that the interior has on structures and processes observed at the surface of the Earth. The ‘deep interior’ includes 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 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.