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

该奖项支持将于2007年8月在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校举行的第十届南极地球科学国际研讨会（ISAES）。这次会议将是一个综合的、多学科的会议，将来自世界各地的科学家聚集在一起，以南极洲为主题，探索岩石圈、水圈、大气和生物圈之间的联系：一个不断变化的世界的基石。这次会议将为2007年开始的国际极地年（IPY）揭开序幕，为21世纪跨学科的南极研究确立新的方向。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，焦点一直放在岩石圈上，吸引了来自30多个国家的数百名科学家。2007年的一项创新将是围绕跨学科主题组织研讨会，使冰川学、海洋学和生物界与固体地球科学家共同参与。这次研讨会将重点讨论正在改变非洲大陆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。就更广泛的影响而言，ISAES促进了国际合作，甚至是在南极领土主张重叠的国家之间的合作，从而有助于维护南极条约的主要原则之一：和平共处和合作研究。作为国际极地年的首次活动，研讨会还将吸引媒体报道，提高极地科学的公众形象。此外，研讨会将为刚刚发现南极研究重要性的早期职业科学家提供一个切入点。

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.