Workshop: 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum; Brunswick, ME; June 2020

该奖项将支持将于2020年6月15日至19日在缅因州布伦瑞克的鲍登学院举行的第六届半年期构造地质学与构造论坛。论坛将汇集构造地质学和构造学的专家，进行口头和海报演示、实地考察和短期课程。构造地质学和构造学项目为构造地质学和构造学社区提供了一个框架，以便在教育工作者和研究人员之间进行交流、发展和推进教学和研究。这些论坛在确定应用于构造地质学和构造学、构造地质学和构造学中的重要科学问题的关键教学进展和方法方面发挥了关键作用，同时启动了解决这些问题的合作关系。会议将包括为期三天的报告，其中将包括涉及最近发布的社区愿景文件确定的主题的技术会议，该文件强调了构造学的重要研究领域。研讨会还将确定和讨论教学方面的进步和进步和方法，特别是当它们适用于教授构造地质学和构造学的一些学科特有的挑战时，并讨论构造学研究的未来方向。它将创造机会，通过思想和技术的交叉授粉促进新的合作，并将为早期职业专业人员和学生提供一个平台，在其职业发展的关键阶段支持和促进他们的职业生涯。按照前几次会议的形式，每届会议将突出当前研究和/或教育的一个重要领域，该领域将由一位杰出的主旨演讲人主持，并将展示关于该专题的工作的相关性。每一次会议都将有充足的时间进行充分的参与者互动。举办该论坛的目的是在公开讨论中最大限度地促进与会者之间的思想交流。会议将提供充分的机会向个别演讲者提问，评估我们目前的知识状况，并考虑未来有成效的研究领域。除正式会议外，还将进行实地考察，以审查邻近地区选定地区的地质情况，重点是实地教学的最佳做法和进行更方便的实地考察。构造地质学与构造论坛旨在促进构造地质界不同领域的社区建设和个人互动。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为少数族裔服务的机构的教师。那些认为自己是传统上代表性不足的群体成员以及来自两年制和四年制大学的专业人士的发言者将在2020年论坛的所有组委会中提供不同的代表。重要的是，将举行小组讨论，讨论构造地质学和构造学的关键发展，以及未来的研究重点。这一社区建设努力将有助于建立一支更强大、更有活力的科学家群体，并有助于向研究生和高级本科生介绍构造地质学和构造学学科。这种环境对研究生特别有用，他们将能够利用论坛的场地和非正式性质来了解其他机构正在进行的研究，会见广泛的教职员工，并发展对他们未来职业生涯非常有价值的有用的联系。非正式的指导课程将为早期职业专业人员和学生提供在构造地质学和构造学领域导航职业的机会。学生将在一个友好的环境中展示他们自己的工作，在那里他们可以获得有思想和有用的反馈，并提供建立新的科学合作的机会。该论坛的一项重要贡献将包括一次旨在确定一次会议的会议，其中一次会议的目的是探讨促进课堂公平、多样性和包容性的最佳做法。通过将重点放在课堂活动和方法上，可以确定可供其他机构采用的成功战略，以尽量减少“漏水管道”，而“漏水管道”是地球科学中代表性不足群体留住问题的一部分。摘要、实地指导和简短的课程笔记将通过一个专门的网站传播，该网站将向公众开放。对构造地质和构造论坛的持续支持有助于地球科学界的长期健康、活力和基础设施。结构地质学和构造学论坛通过强调STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)教育和各级教育工作者的发展，通过促进下一代科学家的培训，通过促进STEM中代表性不足的群体的扩大，以及通过促进提高公众的科学素养，造福于社会并促进预期的社会成果。这些活动有助于提高美国的经济和科学竞争力。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 sixth biannual Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, which will be held June 15-19, 2020 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The forum will bring together specialists in structural geology and tectonics for oral and poster presentations, field trips, and short courses. The Structural Geology and Tectonics Program provides the framework for the structural geology and tectonics community to communicate, develop, and advance teaching and research among educators and investigators. These forums play a key role in identifying key pedagogical advances and methods applied to structural geology and tectonics, important science questions in structural geology and tectonics, while initiating collaborative relationships to address these questions. The meeting will include three days of presentations that will include technical sessions that involve themes that have been identified by a recently published community vision document that highlighted important research areas in tectonics. The workshop will also identify and discuss pedagogical advances and advances and methods, specifically as they apply to some of the discipline specific challenges of teaching structural geology and tectonics and discuss future directions in tectonics research. It will create opportunities to foster new collaborations through the cross-pollination of ideas and techniques, and it will provide a platform for early career professionals and students that supports and promotes their careers at a critical stage in their professional development. Following the format of previous meetings, each session will highlight an important area of current research and/or education that 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 field trips to examine the geology of selected areas of adjacent areas that will focus on best practices for teaching in the field and leading more accessible field trips. The Structural Geology and Tectonics 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. Speakers who identify as members of traditionally underrepresented groups as well as professionals from two- and four- year colleges will provide diverse representation across all of the organizing committees for the 2020 forum. 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. Informal mentoring sessions will facilitate opportunities for early career professionals and students in navigating careers in structural geology and tectonics. Students will 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. An important contribution of this forum will include a session aimed identifying one session will be aimed at best practices to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in the classroom. By focusing on classroom activities and approaches, successful strategies can be identified that can be adopted by other institutions to minimize the “leaky pipeline” that is known to be part of the problem with retention of underrepresented groups in the geosciences. Abstracts, field guides, and short course notes will be disseminated through a dedicated website that will be publicly accessible. Continued support for the Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum contributes to the long-term health, vitality, and infrastructure of the Earth Science community. The Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum benefits society and advances desired societal outcomes by its emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and educator development at a variety of levels, by contributing to the training of the next generation of scientists, by contributing to the broadening of underrepresented groups in STEM, and by contributing to the advancement of scientific literacy of the public. These activities contribute to the increased economic and scientific competitiveness of the United States.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.