Collaborative Research: Complexity in Geomorphology Symposium: Binghamton 2007; Durham, North Carolina; October 5-7, 2007

该奖项将为“地貌学的复杂性”研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会将在宾厄姆顿地貌学研讨会（BGS）的主持下进行。英国地质勘探局被公认为主要的国际地貌学年度会议。它汇集了许多分支领域的领先地貌学家，其先前收集的论文包括广泛引用的经典论文，这些论文影响了地貌学和相关科学的研究进程。虽然“复杂性”是一个保护伞，从它的起源非线性动力学（如混沌理论）中得到了相当大的扩展，但常见的线索包括从简单的相互作用中产生的复杂行为，以及从无数局部相互作用中出现的总体秩序和模式。在过去的20年里，“复杂系统”的方法和观点已经渗透到地貌学的许多不同分支中，对地貌的发展和演变产生了根本性的新见解。研讨会将提供一个智力环境，参与者可以回顾，辩论，讨论和综合概念范式，适当的方法，理论与观察之间的联系，以及未来地貌学复杂性研究的指导框架。像英国地质调查局这样的综合性论坛对这一努力至关重要。复杂系统方法包括在物理学、数学、生态学以及地球科学等不同领域发展起来的各种理论和数据分析方法。地貌学的广泛领域包括具有一系列背景和专业知识的研究人员，他们使用一系列互补的复杂系统方法。此外，存在着两个地貌学团体——分别由地理学家和大部分地质学家和工程师组成——他们都以不同的方式使用复杂系统的概念，但参加不同的会议，很少有相互作用。本次研讨会将整合来自不同背景的研究人员和学生，以促进在会议期间和会议后产生新想法的互动。更广泛的影响：在一个不断变化的人类土地利用、不断变化的气候、景观演变和许多尺度上的生态系统之间的相互作用日益增加的时代，研讨会可能产生的基础科学工具和思想将有助于更有效地规划和管理土地利用、减轻灾害和生态/地貌恢复。此外，本次研讨会将展示许多学者和实践者的研究成果，包括来自不同学科背景的青年科学家、妇女和工人。本次展示将有高水平的质量控制，发表的论文将经过彻底的同行评审过程，并在国际杂志《地貌学》的特刊上发表。最后，地貌学主题的核心思想、方法和目标将为新的地球科学教学组织提供基础。会议组织：BGS 2007将由位于北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的杜克大学Nicholas环境与地球科学学院主办（2007年10月5日至7日）。

This award will provide partial support for the symposium "Complexity in Geomorphology," which will run under the auspices of the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS). The BGS is recognized as the leading international annual conference focused specifically on geomorphology. It brings together leading geomorphologists in many subfields, and its prior collected papers include widely cited classics that have affected the course of research in geomorphology and related sciences. Although 'complexity' is an umbrella that has expanded considerably from its origins in nonlinear dynamics (e.g. Chaos Theory), common threads include complicated behavior arising from simple interactions, and the emergence of overall order and patterns from myriad local interactions. In the past 20 years, 'complex systems' approaches and perspectives have infiltrated into many disparate branches of geomorphology, leading to fundamentally new insights about how landforms develop and evolve. The symposium will provide an intellectual environment where the participants can review, debate, discuss, and synthesize conceptual paradigms, appropriate methods, linkages between theories and observations, and instructional frameworks for future complexity-in-geomorphology research. An integrated forum such as the BGS is extremely crucial for this endeavor. Complex-systems approaches include diverse theoretical and data-analysis methods developed in different fields including physics, mathematics, and ecology, as well as in the Earth sciences. The broad field of geomorphology includes researchers with a range of backgrounds and expertise using a range of complementary complex-systems approaches. In addition, two communities of geomorphologists exist--consisting respectively of geographers on one hand and mostly geologists and engineers on the other--both using complex-systems concepts in various ways, but attending different meetings with far too little cross-fertilization. The proposed symposium will integrate researchers and students from these various backgrounds, to facilitate interactions likely to lead to the generation of new ideas both during and after the event. Broader Impacts: In an era of increasing interactions between changing human land use, changing climate, landscape evolution, and ecosystems on many scales, the basic-science tools and ideas likely to result from the symposium will facilitate more effective planning and management of land use, hazard mitigation, and ecological/geomorphological restorations. In addition, this symposium will showcase the research of many scholars and practitioners, including junior scientists, women, and workers from different disciplinary backgrounds. This showcase will have a high level of quality-controlled rigor, with the published papers undergoing a thorough peer-review process and publication in a special issue of the international journal Geomorphology. Finally, the core set of ideas, methods, and goals on the subject of geomorphology will provide the basis for a new organization of teaching in the geosciences. Conference Organization: The BGS 2007 will be hosted by the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (5-7 October 2007).