Travel support for students and early career scientists to The Clay Minerals Society Conference

这些NSF基金为学生和早期职业粘土科学家提供支持。在美国的参与者将有机会参加在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的专门研究粘土的国际会议。这次会议是由总部设在美国的粘土矿物协会和国际粘土研究协会（AIPEA）联合举办的。会议将讨论以粘土为重点的主题。粘土存在于土壤、家居用品、药品、建材、新型纳米材料以及战略资源（包括油页岩和稀土元素矿床）中。将美国资深粘土科学家与志同道合的国际资深科学家聚集在一起是很重要的。通过这种方式，通过合作和最终出版，思想得以分享、辩论和发展。第一次国际红土会议是在近70年前召开的。和奥运会一样，它每四年举办一次，展示世界上最好的粘土创新。这是粘土科学家规模最大、最受尊敬的聚会。在这次会议上，在美国的学生和早期职业科学家受到教育，并就各种主题与资深科学家建立联系。网络的目标是培养未来的科学家和发展国际关系。这些关系使探索粘土科学的永恒进步变得更加容易。本次会议将举办四个研讨会，主题为：1)AIPEA青年科学家学校高岭土的起源、性质和应用，2)蒙脱石和膨润土表征的进展，3)粘土矿物催化有机反应，4)早期职业粘土科学家研讨会。第一和第四次研讨会的目标是将有经验的科学家与年轻科学家就关键主题进行联系，并探索更好地发表论文、获得资助和建立网络的方法。所有的研讨会都由来自政府、学术界和工业界的专家领导，他们在粘土研究界发表了广泛的文章并受到高度尊重。两次实地考察将导致重要的经济粘土矿床，在那里勘探，开采和最终产品使用的粘土进行审查。会议超过27个专题会议，涵盖地球生物学和低温地球化学感兴趣的广泛议题。技术学科包括矿物学、关键带科学、环境科学、医学与健康科学、功能化粘土与材料科学、土壤科学、工程与岩土应用、行星科学、粘土教学科学、粘土社会史、工业材料等。所有学生参与者都可以获得廉价住房。它位于土耳其伊斯坦布尔的伊斯坦布尔技术大学校园内。这个地点还拥有在“东西方相遇”的科学遗产中具有历史意义的重要位置。会议的主题“新界面：用粘土连接大陆和文化”表明了这一点。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。

These NSF funds provide support to students and early career clay scientists. U.S. based participants will have the opportunity to attend an international conference dedicated to the study of clays in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting is being jointly run with the U.S. based Clay Minerals Society and the International Association for the Study of Clays (AIPEA). The conference will cover clay-focused topics. Clays exist in soils, household products, medicines, building materials, new nanomaterials, and with strategic resources (including oil shales and rare earth element deposits). It is important to bring together senior U.S. based clay scientists with like-minded senior international scientists. This way ideas are shared, debated, and advanced through collaboration and ultimately publication. This International clay conference first met nearly 70 years ago. Like the Olympics, it occurs every four years to showcase the world’s best clay innovations. It is the largest and most respected gathering of clay scientists. At this meeting, U.S. based students and early career scientists become educated and network with senior scientists on a variety of topics. The goal of networking is to train future scientists and develop international relationships. These relationships make it more accessible to explore the timeless advancements of clay science.This conference hosts four workshops on the topics: 1) AIPEA School for Young Scientists on Kaolin origins, properties, and applications, 2) Advances in the characterization of smectites and bentonites, 3) Clay minerals catalysis of organic reactions, and 4) Early Career Clay Scientists workshop. The first and fourth workshops are targeted toward connecting experienced scientists with younger scientists on key topics and explore ways to better publish, obtain funding, and network. All the workshops are led by experts from government, academia, and industry, who have widely published and are highly respected in the clay research community. Two field trips will be led to important economic clay deposits where the exploration, mining, and end-product uses of clays are examined. Over 27 thematic sessions at the conference cover a wide range of topics, which are of interest to geobiology and low temperature geochemistry. Technical disciplines include those relating to mineralogy, critical zone science, environmental science, medicine and health science, functionalized clays and materials science, soil science, engineering and geotechnical applications, planetary sciences, teaching clay science, history of clay societies, and industrial materials. Low-cost housing is available to all student participants. This is located on the campus of Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. This venue also boasts historically important locations in the legacy of science where “East meets West”. This is indicated by the conference theme “New Interfaces: Bridging Continents and Cultures with Clays”.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.