Laboratory Experiments in Geomorphology: The 46th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium

对该项目更广泛的意义和重要性的非技术性解释对塑造地球表面及其相关地貌的过程的研究一直以实地研究为主，但景观过程运行的时间和空间尺度往往非常大，构成困难的挑战。实验设备和物理模拟设备可以压缩时间和缩小规模，以更近距离地研究这些系统的动力学。该奖项支持第46届宾厄姆顿地貌学研讨会，题为“地貌学实验室实验”。这次研讨会将汇聚一批积极从事实验地貌研究的顶尖专家和新兴科学家，他们的队伍强大而多样。根据重要现象选择了八个主题，并要求投稿人强调其设施的独特能力，以及他们的实验研究可能如何改变对地球表面过程的研究。研讨会的更广泛影响包括促进和加强对未来科学专业人员的教育，促进该学科的多样性，以及讨论与社会相关的专题，如山体滑坡和河流修复。第46届宾厄姆顿地貌学年会将为积极从事实验地貌研究的研究人员交流思想提供一个集中的机会。根据对增进对地球表面过程的认识的重要性以及这些领域的实验研究如何改变地貌学的学科，选择了八个专题。这次研讨会的学术价值有三个方面。首先，研讨会为科学家向全球介绍、交流和传播地貌研究的方法、技术和成果提供了一个重要的论坛。其次，由于其规模和重点，研讨会提供了一个无与伦比的机会，可以积极参与与广泛的科学家的讨论，不一定是通过研究重点，而是通过方法方法，在这种情况下是实验室实验。第三，在研讨会上口头提交的所有论文都将发表在国际公认的期刊《地貌学》上，这确保了向更广泛的科学界有效地转移知识。

Non-technical Explanation of the project's broader significance and importanceThe study of the processes that shape the Earth's surface and their associated landforms has been dominated by field-based research, yet the scales of time and space over which landscape processes operate often are very large and pose difficult challenges. Experimental facilities and physical analogues can compress time and shrink scale to examine more closely the dynamics of these systems. This award supports the 46th annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, entitled "Laboratory Experiments in Geomorphology." The symposium will bring together a strong and diverse group of leading experts and emerging scientists actively engaged in experimental geomorphic research. Eight themes have been selected based on important phenomena, and the contributors have been asked to highlight the unique capabilities of their facilities and how their experimental research may transform the study of Earth-surface processes. The broader implications of the symposium include the promotion and enhancement of the education of future science professionals, the fostering of diversity within the discipline, and the discussion of topics having relevance to society, such as landslides and river restoration. Technical Description The 46th annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium will provide a concentrated opportunity for the exhange of ideas among researchers actively engaged in experimental geomorphic research. Eight themes have been selected based on significance to advancing the knowledge of Earth-surface processes and how experimental research in these areas may transform the discipline of geomorphology. The intellectual merit of this symposium is three-fold. First, the symposium provides a prominent forum for scientists to present, exchange, and disseminate methods, techniques, and results on geomorphic research to the global community. Second, because of its size and focus, the symposium offers an unrivalled opportunity to engage actively in discussion with a broad range of scientists linked not necessarily by a research focus, but by a methodological approach, which in this case is laboratory experimentation. Third, all papers presented orally at the symposium will be published in the internationally-recognized journal Geomorphology, which ensures the effective transfer of knowledge to the broader science community.