Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, August 1st - 3rd, 2016

该奖项将支持第四届两年一度的构造地质学和构造论坛，该论坛将于2016年8月在索诺马州立大学举行。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，实地考察和短期课程。会议将包括为期三天的演讲，其中包括技术会议，包括断层滑动的量化，岩石圈变形和流变学，断层和流体流动，构造微观结构的发展和地球科学教育等主题。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。论坛的组织将尽可能使参加者在公开讨论中交流意见。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。除了正式会议外，还将在会前和会后进行实地考察，考察北方加利福尼亚州圣弗朗西斯科和索诺马地区选定地区的地质情况，包括圣安德烈亚斯断层和相关断层系统，以及北方加州的其他地质地区。短期课程的主题将包括准备研究生在地球科学的学术生涯，样品的制备，通过电子背散射检测（EBSD）方法进行分析，教学结构地质学和构造，定量和统计处理结构地质数据，构建平衡的地质横截面的新方法，并使用有限元建模地质和构造结构的分析。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的结构地质学和构造学科。该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，并开发有用的接触，这将是非常有价值的，他们未来的职业生涯。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 fourth biannual Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, which will be held in August 2016 at Sonoma State University. The forum will bring together specialists in structural geology and tectonics for oral and poster presentations, field trips, and short courses. The meeting will include three days of presentations that will include technical sessions that will include topics such as quantification of fault slip, lithospheric deformation and rheology, faulting and fluid flow, development of tectonic microstructures, and geoscience 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 pre- and post-meeting field trips to examine the geology of selected areas in the San Francisco and Sonoma areas of northern California, including the San Andreas Fault and related fault systems, as well as other areas of geologic interest in northern California. Short course topics will include preparing graduate students for academic careers in the earth sciences, preparation of samples for analysis by electron backscatter detection (EBSD) methods, teaching structural geology and tectonics, quantitative and statistical treatment of structural geology data, new methods of constructing balanced geological cross sections, and analysis of geologic and tectonics structures using finite element modeling. The forum is 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 the structural geology and tectonics disciplines. The 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 which will be of great value to their future careers. 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.