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月的DISCO XXIX和PODS XIII以及2026年10月的DISCO XXX和PODS XIV提供组织和后勤支持。这些专题讨论会将产生一个地球化学和物理海洋学领域的早期职业专业人士的队列组，启动合议关系，这将有利于参与者在其雇用机构进行的研究，并使他们能够扩大他们的研究的狭窄焦点，分享他们的经验，并促进合作企业。此外，由DISCO和PODS会议的结合产生的跨学科接触将促进未来的跨学科理解和合作，使其雇用机构受益。因此，与会者将处于独特的地位，可以利用个人和团体之间的网络联系，这对于促进我们科学知识的进步和准备迎接即将到来的环境挑战至关重要。PODS和DISCO的参与者是他们所在领域的潜在未来领导者，因此，即使在他们职业生涯的早期阶段，也有可以使本科生受益的知识。为了将这一点扩展到夏威夷大学的本科生之外，在会议期间招募他们来帮助后勤工作，2024年和2026年会议的与会者将被邀请接受出席会议的本科生的采访。这些访谈将被制作成3到4分钟的视频，广泛分发给机构，包括那些没有海洋学研究生课程的机构，以及支持代表性不足的团体的SACNAS和Black等组织。由于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，以提高对PODS和DISCO的认识，而不仅仅是传统的海洋学研究所。这些研讨会面向获得博士学位一年内的个人，并寻求在学术界或研究实验室工作-从而创建一个早期职业研究人员的队列。将为会议开发一个申请人库，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广泛发布公告。支持这些活动的联邦机构的项目经理将从这个人才库中挑选受邀者。每次会议将包括按研究主题领域分组的一系列会议、参与者主导的讨论时段，以及由特邀演讲者（1名来自PODS，1名来自DISCO）和机构工作人员向联合小组进行的演讲和讨论，解释供资机制和战略。新聘请的夏威夷大学海洋地球科学与技术学院DEI主任将介绍早期职业研究人员面临的问题。与会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。正式和非正式的联合DISCO和PODS活动拓宽了参与者的学科专业知识，促进了未来的合作，并将他们的研究与未来科学家的教育联系起来。国家科学基金会的资金将用于支付会议场地租金和餐饮、议程摘要编写和分发、外联视频编辑以及与与会者支助有关的航空旅行、旅馆住宿、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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

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.