Gordon Research Conference: Deep Carbon Science in the Context of Geologic Time, Rhode Island, June 17-21, 2018

该奖项将支持20名早期职业科学家参加将于2018年6月18日至21日在RI布莱恩特大学举行的关于深度碳科学主题的首届戈登研究会议（GRC）。深层碳科学解决了地球内部在调节地表储层的碳可用性，帮助孵化和庇护生命方面所起的重要作用。会议将召集一个高度跨学科的科学家小组，他们从事与碳在地球系统中的作用相关的不同子主题的工作。这笔资金将用于帮助早期职业参与者支付注册费，其特别目标是促进研究生和博士后学者参与这一新兴研究领域。碳是地球上最重要的元素之一。作为一颗行星，地球表面碳的存在影响了全球气候系统、生命的起源和演化，以及碳基能源的分布。然而，固体地球上的碳含量很可能远远超过地表的碳含量，而进出深层储层的碳转移控制着地表碳汇的大小和范围。虽然深层碳对地球表面碳循环的运作有着根本的控制作用，但我们对地表以下碳的来源、汇、转移和数量的了解有限。来自地球科学、生物学、材料科学、物理学和化学等广泛学科的科学家将在这次会议上聚集一堂，讨论碳在地球环境中的作用。这个跨学科的讨论论坛将通过加强深碳科学家的社区来促进深碳科学的新兴领域，同时为令人兴奋的新深碳科学提供一个重要的经常性出口。戈登会议为在地球和生物科学领域建立多样性提供了一个极好的机会。该会议将吸引早期职业科学家，包括研究生，博士后和助理教授，参加一个重要的论坛，可以对职业生涯产生重要的积极影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the attendance of 20 early-career scientists to the inaugural Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the topic of Deep Carbon Science that will take place at Bryant University, RI, on June 18-21, 2018. Deep Carbon Science addresses the important role played by Earth's interior in mediating the availability of carbon to surface reservoirs, helping incubate and shelter life. The conference will convene a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists who work in different subtopics related to the role of carbon in the Earth System. The support will be used to assist with registration fees for early career attendees, with the particular goal of promoting participation of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in this emerging field of research.Carbon is one of the most important elements in and on Earth. The presence of carbon on the Earth's surface over its history as a planet has impacted the global climate system, the origin and evolution of life, and the distribution of carbon-based energy resources. However, the solid Earth likely contains substantially more carbon than is present at the surface, and transfers into and out of the deep reservoirs control the size and extent of surface carbon sinks. Although deep carbon exerts a fundamental control on the operation of Earth's well-studied surface carbon cycle, we have a limited understanding of carbon's sources, sinks, transfers and quantities below the surface. Scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including geosciences, biology, materials science, physics, and chemistry, will convene at this conference to address how carbon operates in a planetary context. This cross-disciplinary forum for discussions will foster the emerging field of deep carbon science by strengthening the community of deep carbon scientists, while providing a vital recurring outlet for exciting new deep carbon science. The Gordon Conference represents an excellent opportunity for building diversity in the geo- and biosciences. The conference will engage early career scientists, including graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors, in an important forum that can have important positive career impacts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.