Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum

该奖项将支持第二届两年一度的结构地质学和构造学论坛，该论坛将于2012年6月在马萨诸塞州威廉斯敦的威廉姆斯学院举行。 该论坛将汇集结构地质学和构造学的专家，进行口头和海报介绍，实地考察，短期课程和研讨会，总共为期七天。为期三天的演讲将包括六场会议，其中一场将侧重于教育。 每场会议将突出当前研究和/或教育的一个重要领域，将由一位杰出的主旨发言人主持，并将展示有关该主题的工作的相关性。 海报会议有充分的时间充分参与互动将伴随着每一个会议。该论坛的组织将最大限度地促进参与者在公开讨论中交换意见。会议将提供充足的机会向个别演讲者提问，评估我们知识的现状，并考虑未来研究的生产领域。除了正式会议，还将有实地考察，短期课程和研讨会。 这些活动将在论坛前后两天举行。 实地考察将侧重于北阿巴拉契亚山脉的结构地质学的不同方面和/或结构过程的极好的实地例子。 将举办短期课程，内容包括使用谷歌地球和谷歌SketchUp进行研究和教学，使用全球定位系统技术和地理信息系统软件进行实地工作，以及现场矿物测年。 最后，将在会议前后分别召开关于建立结构地质学数字数据库和维护社区学院、两年制学院和少数民族服务机构研究项目的研讨会。该论坛的目的是促进社区建设和个人互动的结构地质学社区的不同部分。它将汇集来自研究型大学、文理学院、社区和两年制学院以及少数民族服务机构的教师。重要的是，将有关于结构地质学和构造学的关键发展的小组讨论，以及未来的研究重点应该是什么。这种社区建设的努力将有助于创造一个更强大，更有活力的科学家群体，并帮助介绍研究生和高级本科生到我们的学科。 这种设置将是特别有用的研究生，谁将能够使用的场地和论坛的非正式性质，以了解什么样的研究正在发生在其他机构，满足广泛的教师，并发展有用的联系。 学生还将能够在友好的环境中展示自己的工作，在那里他们可以获得周到和有用的反馈，并提供建立新的科学合作的机会。摘要、实地指南和短期课程说明将通过一个向公众开放的专门网站分发。

This award will support the second biannual Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, which will be held in June, 2012, at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The forum will bring together specialists in structural geology and tectonics for oral and poster presentations, fieldtrips, short courses, and workshops for a total of seven days. The three days of presentations will include six sessions, one of which will focus on education. Each session will highlight an important area of current research and/or education, will be anchored by a distinguished keynote speaker, and will showcase relevance of work on the topic. Poster sessions with abundant time for full participant interaction will accompany each session. The forum will be organized to maximize the exchange of ideas between participants in open discussions. Sessions will provide ample opportunity to ask questions of individual presenters, assess the current state of our knowledge, and consider productive areas for future research. In addition to the formal meeting, there will be fieldtrips, short courses, and workshops. These activities will take place in the two days before and after the forum. Fieldtrips will focus on different aspects of the structural geology of the North Appalachians and/or superb field examples of structural processes. Short courses will be held on using Google Earth and Google SketchUp for research and teaching, GPS technology and GIS software for fieldwork, and in situ mineral dating. Finally, workshops on building digital databases in structural geology, and maintaining research programs at community colleges, two-year colleges, and minority-serving institutions will be convened prior to and after the meeting, respectively. The forum will be designed to facilitate community building and personal interaction within different segments of the structural geology community. It will bring together faculty from research universities, liberal arts colleges, community and two-year colleges, and minority-serving institutions. Importantly, there will be group discussions on critical developments in structural geology and tectonics, and what future research priorities should be. This community building effort will help create a stronger, more vibrant group of scientists and help introduce graduate students and advanced undergraduates to our discipline. This setting will be particularly useful for graduate students, who will be able to use the venue and informal nature of the forum to find out what research is taking place at other institutions, meet a wide range of faculty, and develop useful contacts. Students will also be able to present their own work in a friendly environment where they can obtain thoughtful and useful feedback, as well as providing opportunity to build new scientific collaborations. Abstracts, field guides, and short course notes will be disseminated through a dedicated website that will be publicly accessible.