The Eleventh (11th) Light and Color in Nature Conference; Fairbanks, Alaska; August 5-8, 2013

该补助金支持早期职业和/或代表性不足的团体参加第11届自然界光与色会议的旅行资金。 34年来，研究人员每隔大约三年聚集一次，分享他们对自然界中观察到的光学现象的最新研究结果。这些会议是真正的特殊场合，从严格的数学理论的光环形成的存在，在古代美洲土著艺术彩虹的主题进行了讨论。 这些会议讨论的议题包括但不完全限于以下方面：彩虹、冰晶晕、光辉、日冕、彩虹色、天空颜色、大气能见度、折射效应、对比现象、极光云、闪电光学、极光、水和空气中吸收和散射产生的颜色、水和水面上的颜色和光，生物学和地质学中的彩虹色和颜色。 这些会议在激发档案研究论文和流行的文章，电影和关于自然界光学主题的书籍方面特别成功。 每次会议之后，美国光学学会杂志或应用光学杂志都会刊登《露天光与色》专题。

This grant supports travel funding for early career and/or underrepresented groups to attend the 11th Light and Color in Nature Conference. For 34 years, researchers have been gathering at approximately three-year intervals to share the latest results of their investigations into optical phenomena observed in nature. These meetings are truly special occasions where topics from rigorous mathematical theories of halo formation to the existence of rainbows in ancient Native American art are discussed. The topics addressed at these meetings include, but are not entirely limited to, the following: Rainbows, ice crystal halos, glories, coronas, iridescence, sky color, atmospheric visibility, refraction effects, contrast phenomena, noctilucent clouds, optics of lightning, auroras, colors created by absorption and scattering in water and air, color and light in water and on water surfaces, iridescence and colors in biology and geology. These meetings have been particularly successful at motivating archival research papers and popular articles, films, and books on the subject of optics in nature. Each meeting is followed by a Light and Color in the Open Air feature issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America or Applied Optics.