Travel to Penrose Conference on Paleoenvironmental Interpre-tation of Paleosols

支持将包括出席彭罗斯会议关于古土壤古环境解释的演讲者的旅费。彭罗斯会议经过美国地质学会的审查后获得批准，并在严格的指导方针下运作。它们的目的是促进该领域精心挑选的专家小组之间的自由讨论，目的是确定地球科学的新方向。这次会议将协调两个不同的科学传统：以农业为导向的土壤科学和以地质为导向的沉积学。每一种研究传统在探索所谓的古生物学方面都有很大的贡献。土壤的化石记录可以看作是土壤形成因素发生了根本性变化的长期自然经历。它也可以被视为解释地质历史上陆地上的重大事件和环境的新的证据。邀请了10位主旨演讲者和20位讨论者。请提供6名外国发言者的机票和费用，以及24名来自北美的发言者的机票费用。

Support will involve travel costs of speakers to a Penrose conference on the paleoenvironmental interpretation of paleosols. Penrose Conferences are approved after review of the Geological Society of America, and operate under strict guidelines. Their purpose is to foster free discussion among a carefully chosen group of experts in the field, with the aim of identifying new directions in Earth sciences. This meeting will effect a reconciliation of two separate scientific traditions: agriculturally-oriented soil science and geologically-oriented sedimentology. Each research tradition has much to offer in the exploration of what has become known as paleopedology. The fossil record of soils can be viewed as a long term natural experiement in pedogenesis in which there were fundamental changes in soil-forming factors. It also can be viewed as a new line of evidence for the interpretation of major events and environments on land in the geological past. Ten keynote speakers and twenty discussants have been invited. Airfares and expenses for 6 foreign speakers, and airfares for 24 speakers from North America are requested.