A Proposal for Travel Support for Students 20th International Sedimentological Congress Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 13-17 August 2018

该奖项旨在支持和帮助学生参加国际沉积学大会（ISC），这是一个专门讨论沉积地质学的全球会议。会议每四年召开一次，今年将在加拿大魁北克市举行。这是自1982年以来首次在北美举行这一国际会议。预计将有来自世界各地的2000多名专业沉积地质学家出席。在为期五天的会议期间，与会者将有机会通过正式和非正式的口头和海报介绍相互交流。该计划还包括一系列研讨会，包括演讲和对话机会，这将允许跨学科和跨广泛的地理区域的研究人员之间的综合和合作。有一系列的周中，会前和会后实地考察和短期课程，旨在提供培训的尖端方法来数据分析和促进沟通。资助的学生将包括来自各个沉积地质学科的本科生和研究生。将特别鼓励代表人数不足的少数群体、妇女和残疾人提交申请，以获得这一旅行支助。研究地球沉积地壳的各个方面是一门充满活力的学科，其中包括诸如地球上生命的克里思和模式、控制沉积物侵蚀和沉积的物理过程等当前有关的专题;环境扰动的地层记录和地层记录的保存。它是一个完全跨学科的研究领域，包括生物学，物理学，地层学，地质年代学，地球化学和建模的研究人员。第20届ISC会议将为地质科学做出独特的贡献，因为它将汇集全球所有职业阶段的沉积地质学家，分享他们在该领域的研究方法，发现和经验。与其他由沉积地质学家参加的会议（如美国地质学会、国际沉积学家协会、SEPM沉积地质学会）不同，ISC吸引了大量不同的全球沉积地质学家（如欧洲、北美、亚太、东欧、非洲等），但是对于跨子领域的关键联网来说，仍然是一个足够小的场所。这将带来新的合作机会，并创造新的方法来研究我们的世界。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

This award is to support and enable students to attend the International Sedimentological Congress (ISC), a global meeting devoted to sedimentary geology. The meeting convenes every four years and will be held this year in Quebec City, Canada. This is first time since 1982 that this international meeting is being held in North America. It is expected that more than 2000 professional sedimentary geologists from throughout the world will be in attendance. During the five-day meeting, participants will have the opportunity to interact with one another through both formal and informal oral and poster presentations. The program also features a series of workshops that include presentations and opportunities for dialog that will allow for synthesis and collaboration between researchers across disciplines and across broad geographic regions. There are a series of midweek, pre-meeting, and post-meeting field trips and short courses offered that are designed to provide training in cutting-edge approaches to data analyses and to foster communication. Students funded will include both undergraduate and graduate students from across the various sedimentary geology disciplines. Underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities will be especially encouraged to submit applications to receive this travel support.Studying aspects of the sedimentary crust of the earth is a vibrant discipline that includes such currently relevant topics as the tempo and mode of life on earth, the physical processes that control erosion and deposition of sediments; the stratigraphic record of environmental perturbations, and the preservation of the stratigraphic record. It is a completely interdisciplinary field of study that includes researchers from biology, physics, stratigraphy, geochronology, geochemistry, and modeling. The 20th ISC meeting will uniquely contribute to the geological sciences because it will bring together the global community of sedimentary geologists, of all career stages, to share their research methods, findings and experiences in the field. Unlike other meetings attended by sedimentary geologists (e.g. Geological Society of America, International Association of Sedimentologists, SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology), ISC attracts a large, diverse, global cross section of sedimentary geologists (e.g. European, North American, Asia- Pacific, Eastern Europe, African, etc.), but is still a small enough venue for critical networking to occur across subfields. This will lead to new opportunities for collaboration and the creation of novel approaches to studying our world.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.