2010 Marine Microbe Gordon Research Conference

该奖项将部分支持2010年海洋微生物戈登研究会议（GRC）参与者的会议和差旅费。由于认识到海洋微生物在生物圈的生态学和生物地球化学中的巨大重要性，这个GRC系列始于2002年。这些微生物包括来自所有三个生命王国的代表，并共同进行地球上发现的几乎所有形式的代谢。因此，海洋微生物介导了构成全球生物地球化学循环的许多反应，这些反应控制着生物圈中能量和物质的流动。这次会议的目标是整合微生物海洋学家、微生物生态学家和生态系统生态学家目前正在进行的各种规模的调查。从基因到环流，从湖泊到海洋，综合各种研究方法和规模，将有助于理解微生物及其对碳循环和其他生物地球化学过程的贡献。会议应有助于扩大微生物生态学家的群体，指出未来的研究方向，并激励新老学生研究微生物和微生物过程。这里提供的资金对于确保这次会议的成功至关重要。该GRC与NSF生物海洋学的利益高度相关，因为它支持许多直接研究海洋微生物的研究项目，即病毒、细菌、古细菌、浮游植物、原生动物和其他原生生物。它也与环境生物学的分工高度相关，特别是生态系统科学集群。几位受邀的演讲者主要不是研究海洋系统或海洋微生物。以这些演讲者为代表的淡水生态系统科学与海洋科学家之间的交流很可能对双方都有益，包括海洋和非海洋LTER现场调查员。本次会议将极大地促进微生物生态学、微生物海洋学和生态系统生态学的研究生和博士后的培养。像这样的GRC会议是学生和其他年轻科学家在轻松的氛围中与该领域的领导者见面并与他们和同行建立联系的绝佳机会。申请资金的一部分将直接支付学生和博士后在该领域的一些会议费用。

Intellectual Merit This award will partially support the meeting and travel expenses for participants in the 2010 Marine Microbe Gordon Research Conference (GRC). This GRC series was started in 2002 in recognition of the huge importance of marine microbes in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the biosphere. These microbes include representatives from all three kingdoms of life and collectively carry out virtually all forms of metabolisms found on the planet. Consequently, marine microbes mediate many of the reactions making up global biogeochemical cycles which govern the flow of energy and material in the biosphere. The goal of this conference is to integrate the various scales of investigations now being carried out by microbial oceanographers, microbial ecologists, and ecosystem ecologists. Integration of approaches and of scales of investigations, from genes to gyres and from lakes to the oceans, will be powerful in understanding microbes and their contribution to the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical processes. The conference should help to enlarge the community of microbial ecologists, to point to future research directions, and to inspire students, new and old, in the study of microbes and microbial processes. The funds provided here are crucial for ensuring the success of this conference. This GRC is highly relevant to the interests of NSF Biological Oceanography because of its support of many research projects directly examining marine microbes, i.e. viruses, bacteria, archaea, phytoplankton, protozoa and other protists. It is also highly relevant to the Division of Environmental Biology, specifically the Ecosystem Science Cluster. Several of the invited speakers do not work primarily in marine systems or with marine microbes. The exchange between freshwater ecosystem science represented by these speakers and marine scientists is highly likely to be beneficial to both communities, including both marine and non-marine LTER site investigators. Broader Impacts This conference will greatly aid the education of graduate students and postdocs in microbial ecology, microbial oceanography, and ecosystem ecology. GRC meetings such as this one are excellent opportunities for students and other young scientists to meet the leaders in the field and to network with them and with peers in a relaxed atmosphere. Part of the requested funds will directly cover some of the meeting expenses of students and postdocs beginning in the field.