MYRES III: Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape Workshop in New Orleans, LA

该奖项支持MYRES III地球科学青年研究人员会议：生命及其景观的动态相互作用。这个为期四天的研讨会的目标是确定各种物理，化学和生物过程作用的空间和时间尺度。头三天？讨论将侧重于增加空间尺度，从第一天的颗粒尺度到第三天的大陆和全球动态，并将涵盖土壤形成/迁移、生命和地貌的共同进化以及生物和气候之间的反馈等主题。第四天将使用前几天开发的形式来解决人类作为地质代理人，包括人类/景观和人类/气候的相互作用。贯穿始终的统一主题是生命与其景观之间的相互作用。对地球上物理和生物过程之间的反馈有更大和更多跨学科的理解？随着日益城市化的世界对全球变化的反应，世界的表面正在变得紧迫。MYRES III将汇集一批国际早期职业研究人员，为自由讨论应对这些挑战的新想法提供一个论坛。会议组织委员会主要由来自不同学科的年轻研究人员组成，他们已经就MYRES III将处理的问题进行了合作，为有效促进会议讨论做好了充分准备。国家地表动力学中心、国家科学基金会的一个科学和技术中心以及伊利诺伊大学水文综合倡议将提供部分指导和物质支持，从而确保第三个多年期可持续发展目标期间产生的想法和成果继续为广大社区提供信息，并由广大社区提供信息。跨学科方法将很快成为表面处理科学研究人员的标准，但年轻研究人员很少有机会接受真正的跨学科培训。MYRES III特别邀请来自地球仪的研究人员参加，它将促进形成一个世界范围的青年科学家网络，使他们能够共同解决物理科学和生物科学之间的问题。研讨会将在新奥尔良举行，以突出人类-气候-景观相互作用的微妙和多方面性质：会后实地考察的第一天将包括访问受卡特里娜飓风影响最严重的地点，并讨论补救工作。新奥尔良社区的成员将有机会与与会者互动，并从地球景观博览会中的物理模型和实验中学习。最后，研讨会的一个主要目标是在一个学科中产生可以理解和应用于另一个学科的成果，从而使更广泛的受众可以获得和相关的学科特定工作。研讨会由NSF内部的三个项目联合支持：地貌学和土地利用动力学，水文科学和生态系统科学集群。

This award supports the MYRES III meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences: Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape. The goal of this four-day workshop will be to identify the spatial and temporal scales over which various physical, chemical, and biological processes act. The first three days? discussion will focus on increasing spatial scales, from the grain-scale on day 1 to continental and global dynamics on day 3, and will cover topics such as soil formation/transport, co-evolution of life and landforms, and feedbacks between biology and climate. The fourth day will use the formalisms developed in the previous days to address human beings as geologic agents, including human/landscape and human/climate interactions. The unifying theme throughout is the interaction between life and its landscape.Greater and more interdisciplinary understanding of the feedbacks between physical and biological processes on Earth?s surface is pressing as an increasingly urbanized world responds to global change. By bringing together an international group of early career researchers, MYRES III will provide a forum to freely discuss emerging ideas to address these challenges. The conference organizing committee, composed primarily of young researchers from disparate disciplines who are already collaborating on the questions MYRES III will address, is well prepared to provide effective facilitation of conference discussions. Guidance and material support will be provided in part by both the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, an NSF Science and Technology Center, and the University of Illinois Hydrologic Synthesis Initiative, thus ensuring that ideas and results generated during MYRES III continue to inform and be informed by the larger community.Broader impacts. Interdisciplinary approaches will soon be the norm for researchers across surface process science, and yet there are few opportunities for young researchers to receive truly interdisciplinary training. Specifically soliciting attendance by researchers from around the globe, MYRES III will facilitate the formation of a world-wide network of young scientists who together can tackle issues at the interface of physical and biological sciences. The workshop will be held in New Orleans to highlight the delicate and multifaceted nature of human-climate-landscape interactions: day 1 of the post-conference fieldtrip will include a visit to those sites most affected by Hurricane Katrina and a discussion of remediation efforts. Opportunities will be available to members of the broader New Orleans community to interact with conference attendees and to learn from the physical models and experiments included in the Earthscapes Exposition. Finally, a major goal of the workshop will be to generate results in one discipline that can be understood and applied in another, hence making even discipline-specific work available and relevant to a wider audience.The workshop is jointly supported by three programs within the NSF: Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics, Hydrological Sciences, and the Ecosystem Science Cluster.