U.S.-Australia Joint Seminar: Organic Geochemical Biomarker Techniques Applied to the Paleobiological Record / Canberra,Australia / August 1988

该奖项将支持六名美国科学家参与 有机地球化学标记技术应用于 古生物学记录“研讨会由 印第安纳州大学的大卫迪尔彻和约翰海斯博士， M博士R. Walter和E. M.澳大利亚联邦统计局的Truswell 矿产资源 来自美国和澳大利亚的参与者将 1988年8月在澳大利亚的堪培拉会面。 研讨会将 解决生物源物质的分析如何有助于 破译有机化合物的生物体 （特别是石油）在沉积岩中。 本次研讨会将汇集古生物学家，有机 地球化学家、生物学家和天然产物化学家。 等 跨学科的互动将引起人们的注意， 古生物学家的重要信息来源，他们 通常被忽视，将告知化学家重要的 古生物学和进化问题， 有助于，并可能加强生物标志物技术的使用， 石油地球化学 美国和澳大利亚的参与 科学家谁是专家在这些不同的子领域应该 促进积极合作，造福两国。

This award will support the participation of six U.S. scientists in a seminar on "Organic Geochemical Marker Techniques Applied to the Paleobiological Record." The seminar is organized jointly by Drs. David Dilcher and John Hayes of Indiana University and Drs. M. R. Walter and E. M. Truswell of the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources. Participants from the U.S. and Australia will meet in Canberra, Australia in August 1988. The seminar will address how the analysis of biogenic substances can help in deciphering the organisms responsible for organic compounds (especially petroleum) in sedimentary rocks. This seminar will bring together paleontologists, organic geochemists, biologists and natural product chemists. Such interdisciplinary interaction will bring to the attention of paleontologists an important source of information that they usually overlook, will inform chemists of important palaeobiological and evolutionary issues to which they might contribute, and may enhance the use of biomarker techniques in petroleum geochemistry. Participation by U.S. and Australian scientists who are experts in these various subfields should promote active collaboration to the benefit of both countries.