Clay Minerals Society Conference Support for U.S. Graduate Student Attendance at a Joint Meeting with European-clay Conference in 2019

粘土矿物协会会议支持美国研究生参加 2019 年欧洲粘土会议联席会议

• 批准号: 1900583
• 负责人: Lynda Williams
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Clay; Minerals; Society; Conference; Support

This funding is to support U.S. based STEM students to travel to, and participate in, an international conference of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS), joint with the European Clay Conference. The benefits to society include exposure of U.S. students to diverse groups of scientists, interacting via Workshops and Field Trips in additional to the formal technical program. The reason for this joint meeting is to expand the interactions of U.S. clay scientists, largely funded by the National Science Foundation, with other nations, and to be aware of advances made by clay scientists funded by European and Asian Science Foundations. This international conference convenes clay scientists worldwide to share research progress, and to question, dispute, defend, and collaborate on research questions at the forefront of clay science research that benefits the U.S. public. This international conference is well-known for promoting the science of U.S. based researchers, who learn from the research of international scientists as they present their research progress. The goal is to benefit the science and education of U.S. students, and in doing so to promote successful clay science research worldwide, which benefits the U.S. public by producing future scientists that are knowledgeable of international colleagues and research advances.The support will assist U.S. based students with travel expenses to attend the Euroclay 2019 conference held in Paris, France. This international conference will promote student interaction with worldwide leaders in the field of low-temperature geochemistry and geobiology, with specific emphasis on scientific research involving clays and clay minerals. Assistance with the student travel, accommodation and registration fees for the Conference, Workshops and Field trips will technologically advance STEM education via a variety of instructional venues including: Field Trips to: 1) study a classical field area of the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian mudrocks in the Boulonnais related to energy resources, 2) visit research facilities for next generation mineral research including the ANDREA underground Deep Geological Repository for High-Level nuclear Waste in a claystone, and to the SOLEIL, a state-of-the-art synchrotron facility employing electromagnetic radiation over wavelengths from infrared to X-rays, 3) attend historical tours of Marie Curie?s life and contributions to scientific methods upon which modern clay science was developed. Workshops include 1) Advances in bentonite research: from the mine to smectite characterization and 2) Clay minerals and catalysis. Over 25 technical sessions will be presented over 5 days focusing on modern clay science advances from energy resources to mineralogy, modeling of nanoparticles, environmental pollutants, critical zone research, clays and the origins of life, diagenesis, geomaterials engineering, photochemistry and functionalization of clays for human health. All of these topics are a focus of NSF funded research and provide students a showcase for research advances on an international stage.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.

这项资金是为了支持美国基于美国的STEM学生参加并参加与欧洲粘土会议联合的粘土矿物协会（CMS）国际会议。社会的好处包括将美国学生接触到不同的科学家群体，通过研讨会和实地考察进行互动，以实现正式技术计划。该联合会议的原因是扩大美国粘土科学家的互动，该科学家在很大程度上由国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）与其他国家资助，并意识到由欧洲和亚洲科学基金会资助的粘土科学家所取得的进步。这次国际会议召集了全世界的粘土科学家，以分享研究进度，并在粘土科学研究的最前沿提出，质疑，辩护和合作，使美国公众受益。这次国际会议以促进美国研究人员的科学而闻名，他们从国际科学家提出研究进度时向他们学习。目的是使美国学生的科学和教育受益，并为促进全球成功的粘土科学研究而促进美国公众，通过生产知识熟悉国际同事和研究进展的未来科学家。该支持将帮助美国的学生提供旅行费用，以参加法国法国巴黎举行的欧洲2019年欧洲2019年会议。这次国际会议将促进学生与低温地球化学和地球生物学领域的全球领导者的互动，并特别强调涉及粘土和粘土矿物的科学研究。为会议，研讨会和实地考察的学生旅行，住宿和注册费用的帮助，将通过各种教学场所在技术上提高STEM教育，包括：1）研究Kimmeridgian和Tithonian Mudrocks的经典野外领域，在与能源资源相关的BOULONDONIS中，在范围内，在范围内进行了核能，并在范围内进行核对的核心研究，2）访问型核心，2）粘土岩，以及对Soleil，一种最先进的同步设施，采用电磁辐射对从红外线到X射线的波长，3）参加玛丽·库里（Marie Curie）的生活和对科学方法的贡献，对现代粘土科学开发了科学方法的贡献。讲习班包括1）膨润土研究的进步：从矿山到蒙奇特表征以及2）粘土矿物质和催化。超过25个技术会议将在5天内介绍，重点是现代粘土科学从能源到矿物学，纳米颗粒的建模，环境污染物，关键区域研究，粘土以及生命的起源，成分成分，地质材料，地质材料工程，光化学，光化学和人类健康的粘土功能。所有这些主题都是NSF资助的研究的重点，并为学生提供了国际阶段的研究进展的展示。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估审查标准通过评估来支持的。