Support for the 11th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium

该奖项将资助北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校举办第11届国际河口生物地球化学研讨会，该研讨会将于2011年5月在北卡罗来纳州的大西洋海滩举行。这次名为“跨越边界”的会议是正在进行的一系列会议(最初名为国际模拟河口研讨会)的一部分，在过去的三十年里，该研讨会每半年举行一次，美国科学家对研讨会的参与一直很重要。最近的两次研讨会分别在德国和中国举行，现在该系列节目将返回北美。研讨会传统上是以全体会议的方式组织的，就预先选定的感兴趣的主题进行主旨演讲，然后进行一系列相关的演讲。由于会议为期4天，演讲次数(每次20分钟)将被限制在20-30次。每届会议以一位受邀的主旨演讲人开始，每届会议之后进行一般性讨论。然而，除了演讲之外，还将提供大型互动海报会议，以便进行更多的演讲。今年？S研讨会将为海洋、地球和大气科学家提供一个令人兴奋的主要跨学科论坛，重点关注河口动力学在调节物质从陆地到海洋的运输和转化方面的作用。除了研究中央河口内发生的过程外，本次研讨会还将探讨河口边界以及与河口水域(洪泛平原、地下水、河床沉积物、大气、潮汐河流和内陆架)交换的邻近环境中的迁移和转化。更广泛的影响：对于美国河口化学家来说，这次会议一直是向国际社会展示他们的成果的主要论坛，研讨会的结构和性质允许与具有相似兴趣的外国同事进行实质性互动。与以往一样，这次会议的目的是吸引来自美国的河口化学家，他们中的许多人将是主旨演讲者，以及不同的国际代表团，他们在该主题领域具有特殊的专业知识。第一份公告于去年11月发出，分发给参加前两次研讨会的所有美国科学家，以及对河口生物地球化学感兴趣的更广泛的美国科学家名单。其他通知将发布在相关网站上，并使用美国全国海洋部门和机构的名单通过电子邮件发送。将通过最新的迪斯科舞厅和对话列表联系即将毕业的研究生，特别是那些有河口化学论文主题的学生。在申请和批准这项国际旅行补助金后，所有向会议提出申请的美国科学家都将被告知有机会获得旅行、注册和居住支持。鉴于美国科学家不需要出国旅行，参加会议的费用将是经济的。

This award will provide funding to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to organize the 11th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium, which will take place in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina in May, 2011. This meeting, entitled "Crossing Boundaries", is part of an on-going series (originally entitled the International Model Estuaries Symposium) that has occurred semi-annually over the past three decades, and participation in the symposium by US scientists has always been significant. The last two symposia have been in Germany and China, and the series now returns to North America. The Symposium has traditionally been organized in a plenary fashion with keynote talks on pre-selected topics of interest, followed by a series of related talks. As the meeting lasts 4 days, the number of talks (20 minutes each) will be restricted to 20-30. Each session begins with an invited keynote speaker and a general discussion after each session is proposed. However, in addition to talks, there will be provision for large interactive poster sessions so that a larger number of presentations can be made.This year?s Symposium will provide an exciting major interdisciplinary forum for marine, earth, and atmospheric scientists by focusing on the dynamics of estuaries in modulating the transport and transformation of materials from land to the ocean. In addition to examining the processes that occur within the central estuary, this symposium will explore transport and transformations at estuarine boundaries and within adjacent environments that exchange with estuarine waters (floodplains, ground waters, bed sediments, the atmosphere, tidal river, and inner shelf). Broader Impacts: For US estuarine chemists, this meeting has been the primary forum for the presentation of their results to an international community and the structure and nature of the Symposium allows for substantial interaction with foreign colleagues with similar interests. As in the past, the meeting will be designed to attract estuarine chemists from the US with particular expertise in the topic areas, many of who will be keynote speakers, as well as a diverse international contingent. The first announcement, which was sent out in November, was circulated to all US scientists in attendance at the two previous symposia, plus a broader list of US scientist with interests in the biogeochemistry of estuaries. Other notices will be posted on related websites and e-mailed using US listings of oceanographic departments and institutions across the country. Contact for emerging graduate students will be made through the most recent DISCO and DIALOG lists, particularly those with thesis topics in estuarine chemistry. After application and approval of this international travel grant, all US scientists making application to the meeting will be notified of the opportunity to obtain travel, registration and residential support. Costs for attending the meeting will be economical given that no foreign travel is required for US scientists.