Neutrino Geosciences

申请资金支持美国科学家参加3月21日至23日在日本高山举行的2013年(http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/geoscience2013/)，中微子地球科学会议。这次会议将地质学和粒子物理学团体聚集在一起，他们对地球中微子探测和数据解释有着共同的兴趣。地球中微子是来自地球内部的Th和U衰变产生的电子反中微子。这次会议的目的是发起和促进对这些社区共同的科学利益的理解。会议将持续三天(3月21日至23日)，讨论在日本卡姆兰德和意大利博雷西诺进行的实验的最新结果，并审查未来该领域的实验。卡姆兰德和Borexino物理团队表示，他们准备发表他们的最新成果(与2010年的物理修订版B和2011年的自然地球科学论文相当)。一个小组委员会将挑选美国地球科学家参加会议。评选标准基于科学气息和多样性，包括地震学、地球动力学、矿物物理学、地球化学、岩石学和地磁学等领域。委员会将优先考虑新的首次参与者；委员会特别寻求至少有研究生或博士后，以及终身教职前教师和/或实验室科学家，以及资深科学家。预计它将在这次会议上支持范围广泛的地球科学家，包括高级、中期和早期职业科学家和博士生。几乎所有的地球科学家都没有可用的资金来参加这样的会议，而且这一领域在地球科学中是一个新出现的领域。

Funds are requested to support US scientists to participate at the Neutrino Geoscience 2013 meeting (http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/geoscience2013/), 21-23 March, in Takayama, Japan. This meeting brings together geology and particle physics communities with shared interests in geoneutrino detection and data interpretation. Geoneutrinos are electron antineutrinos that come from the decay of Th and U from inside the Earth. This meeting is designed to initiate and foster an understanding of the shared science interests of thesecommunities. The meeting will last three days (21-23 March) and discuss the latest results from the experiments in KamLAND, Japan and Borexino, Italy, as well as review future experiments in the field. The KamLAND and Borexino physics teams have stated that they are prepared to produce a publication of their latest results (comparable to the Phys Rev B 2010 and Nature Geoscience 2011 papers).A subcommittee will select the US geo-scientists to bring to the meeting. Selection criteria are based on scientific breath and diversity including the fields of Seismology, Geodynamics, Mineral Physics, Geochemistry, Petrology and Geomagnetism. Preference will be given to new, first-time participants; and the committee specifically seeks to have at least on grad student or post-doc, as well as pre-tenured faculty and or lab scientists, and senior scientists. It is expected to support at this meeting a wide range of geoscientists including senior, mid-career and early career scientists and PhD students. Nearly all geoscientists have no available funding for attending such a meeting, and the field is newly emergent in geosciences.