Travel Support for U.S. Scientists in Activities of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)

随着科学努力继续变得更加全球化，在其职业生涯的早期阶段给予美国科学家参与重大国际合作活动并作出贡献的机会变得越来越重要。出于类似的原因，当美国科学家在促进此类活动的组织中担任领导职务时，他们应该得到协助。该奖项将支持早期职业科学家参加国际大地测量与地球物理联合会（IUGG）六个联合会的大会，并将支持一名担任国际地质科学联合会（IUGS）高级官员的美国科学家的工作。将为协助美国早期职业科学家参加国际大地测量学协会相关会议提供支持的六个会议是：国际大地测量学协会（IAG）科学大会；国际地磁与航空学会（IAGA）第八届科学大会；国际水文科学协会第五届科学大会；国际气象与大气科学协会（IAMAS）和国际海洋物理科学协会（IAPSO）联合大会；第29届国际地震学和地球内部物理学会（IASPEI）大会；以及国际火山学和地球内部化学协会（IAVCEI）的大会。已经为所有这六个会议制定了深思熟虑的科学议程，并且已经制定了一个选择过程，应该允许在合格的早期职业科学家之间进行公开竞争，以及公平和及时地选择资助接受者。通过参加这些会议，美国科学家将有机会在重大国际合作活动中更有效地将他们自己和他们的机构联系起来。此外，美国将通过为该重要国际组织的高级官员罗宾·布雷特博士提供与IUGS有关的国际旅行支持，继续在IUGS活动中发挥领导作用。

As scientific efforts continue to become more global in character, it is increasingly important that U.S. scientists at early stages of their professional careers be given the opportunity to participate in and contribute to major international cooperative activities. For similar reasons, U.S. scientists should be assisted when they assume leadership positions in the organizations that facilitate such activities. This award will provide support to assist early-career scientists to participate in assemblies of six unions of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and it will support the work of a U.S. scientists serving as a senior official in the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The six IUGG-related meeting for which support will provided to assist in the participation of early-career U.S. scientists are: a Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG); the 8th Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA); the 5th Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS); a Joint Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO); the 29th General Assembly of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI); and a General Assembly of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). Thoughtful scientific agendas have been developed for all six of these assemblies, and a selection process has been developed that should permit an open competition among eligible early-career scientists as well as fair and timely selection of funding recipients. Through their participation in these meetings, U.S. scientists will have the opportunity to more effectively link themselves and their institutions in major international collaborative activities. Furthermore, U.S. leadership in IUGS activities will be maintained through the provision of support for some IUGS-related international travel for Dr. Robin Brett, a senior official of that important international organization.