Early Career Participant Support for a Chapman Conference in Selfoss, Iceland on Arctic Magmatism and Tectonics

该旅行奖将为来自美国的六名早期职业科学家提供支持，参加关于北极岩浆作用的国际查普曼会议。会议的目的是综合了解北冰洋及其周围大陆的地质学和地球物理学，并确定未来研究的成熟地区。为了通知更广泛的科学界，组织者将发表一份白皮书，总结这些观点，并将在美国地球物理联盟2020年秋季会议上举行一次会后会议。这个项目确保来自美国的早期职业科学家将能够参加即将在冰岛塞尔福斯举行的AGU查普曼会议，北极的大规模火山活动：地幔和构造的作用。它将集中在五个主题上：1)分手前的裂痕；2)海底扩张；3)地幔非均质性（包括地幔柱和大火成岩省）；4)与俯冲有关的火山作用；5)高北极大火成岩省及其从古生代至今的环境影响。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 travel award will provide support for six early career scientists from the U.S. to attend an international Chapman conference on Arctic magmatism. The purpose of the conference is to synthesize understanding of geology and geophysics of the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding continents and to identify areas ripe for future research. To inform the broader scientific community, the organizers will publish a white paper summarizing these points and also will hold a post-conference session at the American Geophysical Union's Fall 2020 meeting. This project ensures early career scientists from the U.S. will be able to participate in an upcoming AGU Chapman Conference in Selfoss, Iceland, Large-scale Volcanism in the Arctic: The Role of the Mantle and Tectonics. It will focus on five themes: 1) Pre-breakup rifting; 2) seafloor spreading; 3) mantle-derived heterogeneity (including plumes and large-igneous provinces); 4) subduction related volcanism; and 5) High Arctic Large Igneous Province and environmental effects extending from the Paleozoic to the present day.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.