Support for a Symposium to Honor Alan Plumb's Contributions to the Science of Stratospheric Dynamics and Chemisty; New York, NY; October 24-25, 2008

2008年是马萨诸塞州理工学院艾伦·普拉姆教授的60岁生日。 为了庆祝这一时刻，他的同事们正在组织一个研讨会，并将出版一个研讨会“Festschrift”卷。 研讨会将于2008年10月24日至25日星期五和星期六在纽约市的哥伦比亚大学举行。 它将持续一天半，包括十几个特邀演讲;一个国际发言人名单已被邀请发表演讲。 专题讨论会将讨论平流层知识的现状，并将包括关于动力学、传输和化学的专题介绍。 一本书将作为美国地球物理学联合会专著在2009年秋季出版，总结了研讨会上的评论谈话。该赠款将支持研究生参加研讨会的旅行和参与。 已作出特别努力，接待代表人数不足的学生，并鼓励妇女参加专题讨论会。 邀请已经通过美国气象学会和美国地球物理联合会的电子邮件列表广播到整个大气科学界。

The year 2008 marks the 60th birthday of Professor Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To celebrate this occasion his colleagues are organizing a symposium and will be publishing a symposium "Festschrift" volume. The symposium will be held at Columbia University in New York City, on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25, 2008. It will run a day and a half, and consist of a dozen invited talks; an international roster of speakers has been invited to give presentations. The symposium will cover the current state of knowledge on the stratosphere, and will include presentations on dynamics, transport and chemistry. A book will be published as an American Geophysical Union Monograph in the fall of 2009 summarizing the review talks given at the symposium.This grant will support the travel and participation of graduate students to attend the symposium. Special efforts have been made to host students from underrepresented populations, and to encourage women participation at the symposium. Invitations have been broadcasted to the entire atmospheric science community via email lists from the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union.