Conference: Support for a Thompson Field Forum on the elevation history of the Sierra Nevada

该提案为14名学生和早期职业科学家参加美国地质学会2022年汤普森现场论坛“内华达州山脉的海拔历史”提供了支持。该论坛将汇集42名科学家，讨论塞拉利昂从白垩纪到现在的地形历史。 目标是促进关于这一主题的下一代研究，这对科学界和公众都有广泛的兴趣。论坛的目标是讨论该山脉是否古老，在新生代的大部分时间里侵蚀最小，或者相对年轻，从早期山脉的碎片中升起。这两个端元模型-这些端元概念化具有重要的影响，远远超出了塞拉利昂的分歧进行的应用技术，以确定造山表面隆起的影响，他们有深远的影响，地球动力学模型和解释的几个，全球应用的古高程代理。这次会议是及时的，因为社会需要审查和评估第一手证据，并制定更好的综合方法来测试这些和其他辩论。人们对这个似乎是古老的课题有着相当大的兴趣，但最近的科学进步引起了关于内华达州山脉的年龄和形成的争议和新的想法。学生和早期职业专业人士谁将通过这项活动的支持是积极参与Sierran的研究，因此将是知识渊博，并接受讨论的细微差别。他们还将有机会在一般性讨论中介绍他们的新工作。他们将接触到高水平的综合科学，这将对他们的职业生涯产生潜在的变革性影响。该奖项体现了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 proposal provides support for the participation of fourteen students and early career scientists in a Geological Society of America 2022 Thompson Field Forum on the “Elevation history of the Sierra Nevada.” The forum will bring together 42 scientists to discuss the topographic history of the Sierra from the Cretaceous to the present. The goal to promote the next generation of research on this subject, which is of broad interest both to the scientific community and the general public. The goal of the forum is to debate whether the range is old, with minimal erosion through most of the Cenozoic, or relatively young having risen from the debris of an earlier range. Both end-member models These end-member conceptualizations have important implications that extend well beyond the Sierra as the disagreements carry implications for the application of techniques used to identify orogenic surface uplift and they have profound implications for geodynamic models and the interpretations of several, globally applied paleoelevation proxies. The conference is timely in that the community needs to examine and evaluate the evidence firsthand and develop better integrated methodologies to test these and other debates. There has been considerable interest in what seems to be like an old subject, but recent scientific advances have provoked controversy and new ideas regarding the age and formation of the Sierra Nevada. The students and early career professionals who will be supported by this activity are actively involved in Sierran research and hence will be knowledgeable and receptive to the nuances of the discussions. They will also get a chance to present their new work for the general discussions. The exposure they will get to high level integrative science will be potentially transformative for their careers. Society benefits from this activity include contributions to STEM education and educator development; development of a diverse, globally competitive workforce; and contributions to the broadening of participation of underrepresented groups in STEM.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.