Travel support for students and early career scientists to The Clay Minerals Society Conference

这些NSF基金为学生和早期职业粘土科学家提供支持。美国的与会者将有机会参加在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的专门研究粘土的国际会议。这次会议是与美国粘土矿物协会和国际粘土研究协会（AIPEA）联合举办的。会议将涵盖粘土为重点的主题。粘土存在于土壤、家用产品、药品、建筑材料、新型纳米材料中，并与战略资源（包括油页岩和稀土元素矿床）一起存在。重要的是将美国的高级粘土科学家与志同道合的高级国际科学家聚集在一起。通过这种方式，想法被分享，辩论，并通过合作和最终出版来推进。这个国际粘土会议第一次见面近70年前。与奥运会一样，它每四年举办一次，展示世界上最好的粘土创新。这是粘土科学家最大和最受尊敬的聚会。在这次会议上，美国的学生和早期职业科学家接受教育，并与高级科学家就各种主题建立联系。网络的目标是培养未来的科学家和发展国际关系。本次会议将举办四个专题研讨会：1）AIPEA青年科学家学院关于高岭土的起源、性质和应用; 2）蒙脱石和蒙脱石的表征进展; 3）有机反应的粘土矿物催化; 4）早期职业粘土科学家研讨会。 第一次和第四次研讨会的目标是在关键主题上将经验丰富的科学家与年轻科学家联系起来，并探索如何更好地发表，获得资金和网络。所有研讨会都由来自政府，学术界和工业界的专家领导，他们在粘土研究界发表了广泛的文章并受到高度尊重。两个实地考察将导致重要的经济粘土矿床的勘探，采矿和粘土的最终产品的用途进行检查。会议期间将举行27场专题会议，涵盖地球生物学和低温地球化学领域的广泛主题。技术学科包括与矿物学、临界区科学、环境科学、医学和健康科学、功能化粘土和材料科学、土壤科学、工程和岩土工程应用、行星科学、教学粘土科学、粘土社会历史和工业材料有关的学科。所有学生都可获得廉价住房。这是位于伊斯坦布尔技术大学，伊斯坦布尔，土耳其的校园。 这个场地还拥有历史上重要的位置，在科学遗产中，“东西方相遇”。会议主题“新界面：用粘土连接大陆和文化”表明了这一点。该奖项反映了NSF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。

These NSF funds provide support to students and early career clay scientists. U.S. based participants will have the opportunity to attend an international conference dedicated to the study of clays in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting is being jointly run with the U.S. based Clay Minerals Society and the International Association for the Study of Clays (AIPEA). The conference will cover clay-focused topics. Clays exist in soils, household products, medicines, building materials, new nanomaterials, and with strategic resources (including oil shales and rare earth element deposits). It is important to bring together senior U.S. based clay scientists with like-minded senior international scientists. This way ideas are shared, debated, and advanced through collaboration and ultimately publication. This International clay conference first met nearly 70 years ago. Like the Olympics, it occurs every four years to showcase the world’s best clay innovations. It is the largest and most respected gathering of clay scientists. At this meeting, U.S. based students and early career scientists become educated and network with senior scientists on a variety of topics. The goal of networking is to train future scientists and develop international relationships. These relationships make it more accessible to explore the timeless advancements of clay science.This conference hosts four workshops on the topics: 1) AIPEA School for Young Scientists on Kaolin origins, properties, and applications, 2) Advances in the characterization of smectites and bentonites, 3) Clay minerals catalysis of organic reactions, and 4) Early Career Clay Scientists workshop. The first and fourth workshops are targeted toward connecting experienced scientists with younger scientists on key topics and explore ways to better publish, obtain funding, and network. All the workshops are led by experts from government, academia, and industry, who have widely published and are highly respected in the clay research community. Two field trips will be led to important economic clay deposits where the exploration, mining, and end-product uses of clays are examined. Over 27 thematic sessions at the conference cover a wide range of topics, which are of interest to geobiology and low temperature geochemistry. Technical disciplines include those relating to mineralogy, critical zone science, environmental science, medicine and health science, functionalized clays and materials science, soil science, engineering and geotechnical applications, planetary sciences, teaching clay science, history of clay societies, and industrial materials. Low-cost housing is available to all student participants. This is located on the campus of Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. This venue also boasts historically important locations in the legacy of science where “East meets West”. This is indicated by the conference theme “New Interfaces: Bridging Continents and Cultures with Clays”.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.