Collaborative Research: The 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science (ISAES X)

该奖项支持将于2007年8月在圣巴巴拉的加州大学举行的第十届南极地球科学国际年度研讨会。这次会议将是一次综合性的多学科会议，使来自地球仪各地的科学家聚集一堂，探讨岩石圈、水圈、大气层和生物圈之间的联系，主题是南极洲：不断变化的世界中的一块基石。2007年是国际极地年（IPY）的开始，会议将为21世纪的跨学科南极研究确定新的方向。ISAES历史悠久，是最重要的国际南极地球科学会议，自1963年以来每四年召开一次。从历史上看，重点一直是岩石圈，吸引了来自30多个国家的数百名科学家。2007年的一个创新将是围绕跨学科主题组织研讨会，使冰川学、海洋学和生物学界与固体地球科学家接触。研讨会将重点介绍正在改变南极洲科学发现的范围和速度的新兴技术，但这些技术依赖于日益密切的国际合作。在更广泛的影响方面，国际空间科学协会促进国际合作，甚至在南极洲有重叠领土主张的国家之间，从而有助于维护南极条约的主要原则之一：和平共处与合作研究。作为国际极地年的开幕活动，该研讨会还将吸引媒体报道，提高极地科学的公众形象。此外，研讨会将成为刚刚发现南极研究重要性的早期职业科学家的切入点。

This award supports the Tenth Annual International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in August 2007. This conference will be an integrated, multidisciplinary meeting that brings scientists from around the globe together to explore links among the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere under the theme Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World. Inaugurating the International Polar Year (IPY), that begins in 2007, the meeting will establish new directions for interdisciplinary Antarctic research in the 21st Century. ISAES has a long history and is the foremost international Antarctic geoscience meeting, convened every four years since 1963. Historically the focus has been on the lithosphere, attracting hundreds of scientists from over thirty countries. An innovation in 2007 will be to organize the symposium around cross-disciplinary themes to engage the glaciology, oceanography, and biology communities with solid Earth scientists. The symposium will feature new and emerging technologies that are changing the scope and pace of scientific discovery on the continent, but which rely on ever-closer international cooperation.In terms of broader impacts, ISAES promotes international collaborations, even between nations with overlapping territorial claims in Antarctica, thereby helping to maintain one of the main tenets of the Antarctic Treaty: peaceful co-existence and cooperative research endeavors. As an inaugural event for IPY, the Symposium will also attract media coverage and raise the public profile of polar science. In addition, the symposium will serve as a point of entry for early career scientists just discovering the importance of Antarctic research.