Support for Beginning Investigators to Attend the 17th SEDI Symposium; Taipei, Taiwan; July 6-10, 2020

这笔奖金将用于支付将于2020年7月6-10日在台湾台北举行的第17届地球深部研究研讨会(SEDI)的部分初任研究员参会费。初级调查人员被定义为研究生、博士后，在某些情况下，还包括非常初级的教员。SEDI会议特别有利于初级研究人员，因为会议规模小但跨学科，而且为讨论紧迫的科学问题提供了充足的时间。这项提议的目标是支持下一代深地科学家。申请将通过SEDI名单服务广泛征求，申请者将根据他们的摘要和他们的情况陈述得到支持。该研讨会将通过在一个相对较小的研讨会式的会议上促进与所有级别的研究人员的对话，为美国研究生和初级研究人员的跨学科教育做出贡献。国际格式是对苹果酒等美国国家团体努力的补充，对于那些由NSF CSEDI计划资助或寻求资金的人来说，将是有用的。SEDI及其会议的结构本质上是跨学科的，为在广泛的主题上进行内部和国际合作提供了许多机会，有助于我们对地球深处的了解。SEDI是一个致力于研究地球深处的国际科学组织。SEDI的最终目标是加强对地球深层过去的演化和当前的热、化学和动力学状态的了解，以及对地球表面观察到的结构和过程的影响。“深部内部”包括核心和下地幔，但人们的兴趣通常延伸到地表，例如，在研究地幔羽流或下降的岩石圈板块的动力学方面。SEDI感兴趣的科学问题和问题包括地磁发电机和长期变化，古地磁和地球深部内部的演化，极端条件下的材料特性，核和地幔的结构和动力学，核-地幔相互作用，以及深层地球化学库的性质和位置。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 provide funds to partially cover beginning investigator participant costs for the 17th Symposium on Study of Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI), to be held in Taipei, Taiwan from July 6-10, 2020. Beginning investigators are defined as graduate students, post-docs and, under some circumstances, very junior faculty. SEDI meetings are particularly conducive for beginning investigators as the meetings are small but cross-disciplinary, and they provide ample time for discussion of the pressing scientific questions. The objective of this proposal is to support the next generation of deep Earth scientists. Applications will be broadly solicited through the SEDI listserve, and applicants will be supported based on their abstracts and a statement of their situation. This workshop will contribute to the interdisciplinary education of US graduate students and beginning researchers by fostering dialog with researchers at all levels at a relatively small workshop-style meeting. The international format complements efforts by US national groups such as CIDER and will be useful to those funded under or seeking funding from the NSF CSEDI program. The structure of SEDI and its meetings is intrinsically interdisciplinary, providing many opportunities for intra- and international collaborations on a broad range of topics that contribute to our understanding of the deep earth.SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior. The ultimate goal of SEDI is an enhanced understanding of the past evolution and current thermal, chemical and dynamical state of the Earth’s deep interior, and of the effect that the interior has on structures and processes observed at the surface of the Earth. The ‘deep interior’ includes the core and lower mantle, but interest often extends to the surface, for example, in the study of mantle plumes or dynamics of descending lithospheric slabs. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include the geomagnetic dynamo and secular variation, paleomagnetism and the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, material properties at extreme conditions, structure and dynamics of the core and mantle, core-mantle interactions, and the nature and location of deep geochemical reservoirs.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.