Conference: Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS) XIII & XIV and DIssertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO) XXIX & XXX

这笔赠款为2024年10月对迪斯科XXIX和吊舱XIII以及2026年10月对迪斯科XXX和吊舱XIV提供的组织和后勤支持提供资金。这些研讨会将产生一批在地球化学和物理海洋学领域的早期职业专业人员，建立合作关系，这将使参与者在其雇用机构进行的研究受益，并使他们能够扩大其狭隘的研究重点，分享他们的经验，并促进合作项目。此外，迪斯科和吊舱会议结合产生的跨学科联系将促进未来跨学科的了解和合作，使其雇用机构受益。因此，参与者将处于独特的位置，可以利用个人和群体之间的网络，这对促进我们的科学知识进步和应对即将到来的环境挑战具有重要意义。豆荚和迪斯科参与者是各自领域潜在的未来领导者，因此，即使在他们职业生涯的早期阶段，他们的知识也可以让本科生受益。为了将这一点扩展到夏威夷大学的本科生在会议期间帮助后勤工作之外，2024年和2026年会议的参与者将被邀请接受出席的本科生的面试。这些采访将被制作成3到4分钟的视频，广泛分发给各机构，包括那些没有海洋学研究生课程的机构，以及SACNAS和Black in Ocean Science等支持代表性不足群体的组织。由于这些视频将对采访地点进行简短描述，这些视频还将提供一种机制，提高人们对豆荚和迪斯科的认识，而不是传统的海洋研究所。这些研讨会是为获得博士学位一年内在学术界或研究实验室寻求职业生涯的个人举办的，从而创造了一批职业生涯早期的研究人员。从向美国和其他国家学术和研究机构的化学和物理海洋学家发布广泛公告开始，将为这些会议建立一个申请者库。支持这些活动的联邦机构的项目经理将从这个池中选择受邀者。每次会议将由一系列会议组成，按研究主题领域分组，由参与者主导的讨论时段，以及由嘉宾演讲者(1名来自吊舱，1名来自迪斯科)和机构人员向合并小组介绍情况，并与他们讨论，解释供资机制和战略。新聘用的夏威夷大学海洋地球科学与技术学院院长将就早期职业研究人员面临的问题发表演讲。参与者将组成分组，讨论和报告与发展研究职业相关的当前问题。正式和非正式的迪斯科和豆荚联合活动拓宽了参与者的学科专长，促进了未来的合作，并在他们的研究和对未来几代科学家的教育之间建立了联系。NSF的资金将包括会议场地租赁和餐饮、抽象议程的准备和传播、外展视频编辑，以及与与会者支持相关的航空旅行、酒店住宿和每日膳食费用，这些费用没有作为研讨会的一部分提供。这一奖励反映了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 grant funds organizational and logistical support for DISCO XXIX and PODS XIII in October 2024 and DISCO XXX and PODS XIV in October 2026. These symposia will produce a cohort group of early career professionals in the field of geochemistry and physical oceanography, initiating collegial relationships that will benefit the research performed by the participants at their employing institutions, and will enable them to expand the narrow focus of their research, share their experiences, and facilitate collaborative ventures. In addition, the cross-disciplinary contacts arising from the combination of the DISCO and PODS meetings will foster future inter-disciplinary understanding and collaborations, benefiting their employing institutions. Thus, the participants will be uniquely situated to take advantage of networking between individuals and groups, which is of great importance to foster advances in our scientific knowledge and preparedness to meet upcoming environmental challenges. PODS and DISCO attendees are potential future leaders in their field, and as such, even at this early stage in their careers, have knowledge that can benefit undergraduate students. To extend this beyond the University of Hawai‘i undergraduate students recruited to help with logistics during the meeting, participants at the 2024 and 2026 meetings will invited to be interviewed by the attending undergraduate students. These interviews will be turned into a 3 to 4-minute video that will be broadly distributed to institutions, including those that do not have graduate programs in oceanography, as well as organizations such as SACNAS and Black in Marine Science, that support under-represented groups. As the videos will have a short description of where the interviews took place, these videos will also provide a mechanism for increasing the awareness of PODS and DISCO beyond the traditional oceanography institutes.These symposia are for individuals within one year of attaining their PhD and who are seeking a career in academia or research laboratories – thus creating a cohort of early-career researchers. An applicant pool will be developed for the meetings from a broad announcement to chemical and physical oceanographers at academic and research institutions in the US and other countries. From this pool, program managers at the federal agencies supporting these events will select invitees. Each meeting will consist of a series of sessions grouped by research subject area, participant -led discussion periods, as well as presentations to the combined group by, and discussions with, guest speakers (1 from PODS and 1 from DISCO) and agency personnel explaining funding mechanisms and strategies. The newly hired University of Hawai‘i School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology DEI Director will give a presentation on issues faced by early career researchers. Participants will form breakout groups to discuss and report on current issues associated with developing careers in research. Formal and informal joint DISCO and PODS activities broaden the disciplinary expertise of the participants, promote future collaborations, and to make connections between their research and the education of future generations of scientists. The NSF funds will cover meeting venue rentals and catering, abstract-agenda preparation and dissemination, outreach video compilation, as well as participant support-related costs of air travel, hotel accommodation, and per diem for meals that are not provided as part of the symposia.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.