Symposium: Dispersal of Marine Organisms Symposium at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Charleston, SC Jan 3-7, 2012

该奖项为2012年1月在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿举行的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）会议上题为“海洋生物扩散”的研讨会提供支持。海洋拥有地球上生物多样性的很大一部分。了解生物种群在海洋中的分布地点、时间和方式是海洋生物学研究的一个中心和重要主题。从根本上说，海洋生物的扩散（运动）和分布是物理和生物环境特征与生物的综合结果。生物学特征，如生理和行为然而，对扩散的研究往往倾向于强调某一特定学科（如群体遗传学、功能形态学、发育生物学、生理学、生物物理学），或强调某一特定生物群体（如鱼类、海洋无脊椎动物）。本次研讨会汇集了一个由杰出的年轻和成熟的演讲者组成的跨学科小组，以综合的方式解决海洋环境中扩散的广泛问题。这种一体化对海洋养护和管理工作日益重要。研讨会的目标是促进跨学科传播思想和知识的交流和整合，并为未来的研究确定科学机会和方法，以加速理解。将鼓励与会者考虑影响不同物种间扩散的共同特性，并讨论应测量哪些货币，以便预测海洋生物的扩散将如何受到环境变化的影响。受邀的研讨会发言人代表了不同的科学观点，包括知名专家和早期职业科学家，男性和女性。其他研究人员将在辅助会议上展示他们的研究成果，该项目通过邀请和提供财政援助，为最多10名研究生或博士后研究人员在这些补充会议上发表报告，从而促进学生培训。

This award provides support for a symposium entitled Dispersal of Marine Organisms at the January 2012 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in Charleston, SC. The world?s oceans hold a significant fraction of the diversity of organisms on the planet. Understanding where, when and how populations of organisms are distributed in the ocean is a central and significant topic in marine biological research. Fundamentally, the dispersal (movement) and distribution of marine organisms results from an integration of both the physical and biotic environmental characteristics with organisms? biological characteristics, such as physiology and behavior. Often, however, research on dispersal tends to emphasize a particular discipline (e.g., population genetics, functional morphology, developmental biology, physiology, biophysics), or to emphasize a particular group of organisms (e.g. fish, marine invertebrates). This symposium assembles an interdisciplinary group of outstanding young and established speakers to address the broad issue of dispersal in marine environments in an integrative way. Such integration is increasingly important to marine conservation and management efforts. The goal of the symposium is to promote the exchange and integration of ideas and knowledge of dispersal across disciplines, and to identify scientific opportunities and approaches for future research that will accelerate understanding. Participants will be encouraged to consider the common properties that influence dispersal across different species, and to discuss what currencies should be measured in order to predict how dispersal of marine organisms will be influenced by environmental change. The invited symposium speakers represent a diverse scientific perspective and include established experts and early career scientists, men and women. Additional researchers will present their findings in contributed sessions and the project contributes to student training by inviting and providing financial assistance for up to ten graduate students or postdoctoral researchers to present in these complementary sessions.