Workshop on Next Generation Humic Isolates

这笔赠款将用于支持作为国际腐殖质学会（IHSS）两年一次会议一部分的研讨会的费用。研讨会的目的是讨论维持IHSS现有天然有机质（NOM）参考样品的未来需求，并考虑收集新的参考NOM样品的方法。NOM之所以重要，有几个原因。土壤中的NOM也被称为土壤腐殖质。NOM也存在于海洋、所有湖泊和溪流中。NOM不仅在全球碳循环中发挥重要作用，而且还与植物所需的营养物质发生反应，并控制许多有毒化学物质的命运。自20世纪80年代中期以来，IHSS向世界各地的科学家提供了用于研究的NOM参考样本。这些参考NOM样本的可用性使得比较许多不同研究的结果成为可能。参加研讨会的科学家将总结他们的建议，并将准备一份报告，描述了解nom的最新进展。这笔赠款将用于支持作为国际腐殖质学会（IHSS）两年一次会议的一部分举行的研讨会的费用。研讨会的目的是讨论维持IHSS现有天然有机质（NOM）参考样品的未来需求，并考虑收集新的参考NOM样品的方法。天然有机质（NOM）是全球碳收支中的一个重要储层，并参与许多重要的生物地球化学和环境反应，从支持异养微生物活动到减弱微量金属和持久性有机污染物的运输。自20世纪80年代初以来，研究NOM的科学团体IHSS一直致力于发展对NOM化学的综合理解。此外，IHSS还分发了来自陆地和水生环境的标准和参考NOM、腐殖酸和黄腐酸，从生物地球化学和全球角度来看，它们代表了不同的来源。参加讲习班的小组将提出建议，以便在今后几年保持现有参考和标准腐殖质的可用性。该小组还将编写一份合成论文，回顾在了解NOM化学和反应性方面的最新进展，并强调利用来自IHSS的标准样品和参考样品推进进展的方式。本次研讨会将通过保持这些参考腐殖质物质在环境工程与科学、土壤科学、化学、湖沼学和海洋学等广泛研究界的可用性，促进对NOM的理解。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 grant will support costs for a workshop to be held as part of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) biannual meeting. The goal of the workshop is to discuss future needs for maintaining the current reference samples of natural organic matter (NOM) of the IHSS and to consider approaches for collecting new reference NOM samples. NOM is important for several reasons. The NOM in soil is also known as soil humus. NOM is also present in oceans and in all lakes and streams. Not only does NOM play an important role in the global carbon cycle, but NOM also reacts with nutrients needed by plants and controls the fate of many toxic chemicals. Since the mid-1980’s, the IHSS has provided reference samples of NOM to scientists worldwide to use for research. The availability of these reference NOM samples has made it possible to compare results from many different studies. The scientists attending the workshop will summarize their recommendations and will prepare a report describing recent advances in understanding NOM.This grant will support costs for a workshop to be held as part of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) biannual meeting. The goal of the workshop is to discuss future needs for maintaining the current reference samples of natural organic matter (NOM) of the IHSS and to consider approaches for collecting new reference NOM samples. Natural organic matter (NOM) represents an important reservoir in the global carbon budget and participates in many important biogeochemical and environmental reactions ranging from supporting heterotrophic microbial activity to attenuating the transport of trace metal and persistent organic contaminants. Since the early 1980’s, the IHSS, the scientific community that studies NOM, has worked to develop an integrated understanding of NOM chemistry. In addition, the IHSS has distributed standard and reference NOM, humic and fulvic acids from terrestrial and aquatic environments, representing diverse sources from a biogeochemical and global perspective. The group attending the workshop will develop recommendations for sustaining the availability of current reference and standard humic substances for years to come. The group will also prepare a synthesis paper reviewing recent advances in understanding of NOM chemistry and reactivity and highlighting the ways in which the progress was advanced by using standard and reference samples from the IHSS. This workshop will advance understanding of NOM by maintaining the availability of these reference humic substances to the broad research community spanning environmental engineering and science, soil science, chemistry, limnology, and oceanography.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.