CSEDI: Support for 12th SEDI Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA

这一奖励将用于支付第12届地球研究研讨会？S深部研讨会(SEDI)的参会费。会议将于2010年7月19日至23日在加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉举行。这笔资金将用于支持大约30名美国机构的年轻研究人员参加2010年的SEDI会议。SEDI是一个致力于地球深部研究的国际科学组织。SEDI的主要研究重点是促进我们对地球深部过去、现在和未来状态的了解，并探索对地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响。“深部内部”被广泛地解释为包括核心和下地幔，但人们的兴趣不可避免地延伸到地表，例如，在研究地幔羽流或下降的岩石圈板块的动力学方面。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题和问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁和地球深部的演化，极端条件下的物质性质，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-地幔相互作用，以及深层地球化学储层的性质和位置等。这一建议将通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式的会议上促进与各级研究人员的对话，促进美国研究生和年轻研究人员的跨学科教育。国际格式是对苹果酒等美国国家团体努力的补充，对于那些由NSF CSEDI计划资助或寻求资金的人来说，将是有用的。SEDI的结构本质上是跨学科的，为在广泛的主题上进行内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，有助于我们了解地球深处和其他行星内部。

This award will cover participant costs for the 12th Symposium on Study of Earth?s Deep Interior (SEDI). The meeting will be held in Santa Barbara, CA from July 19 - 23, 2010. The funds will be used to support approximately 30 young researchers at US institutions to attend the SEDI meeting in 2010.SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The primary research focus of SEDI is to advance our understanding of the past, current and future state of the Earth's deep interior and to explore the consequences for structures and processes observed at the Earth's surface. The 'deep interior' is broadly interpreted to include the core and lower mantle, but interest inevitably extends to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, material properties at extreme conditions, structure and dynamics of the core and mantle, core-mantle interactions, and the nature and location of deep geochemical reservoirs, etc. This proposal will contribute to interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and young researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop-style meeting. The international format complements efforts by US national groups such as CIDER and will be useful to those funded under or seeking funding from the NSF CSEDI program. The structure of SEDI is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and international collaborations on a broad range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep earth and other planetary interiors.