Advancing U.S. Quaternary Science by Supporting Early Career Scientists: 2019 INQUA Congress Travel Fellowship Program

通过支持早期职业科学家推进美国第四纪科学：2019 INQUA 国会旅行奖学金计划

• 批准号: 1927092
• 负责人: Aida Sztein
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 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: 2019-04-15 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; U.S.; Quaternary; Science; Supporting

The National Academy of Sciences will support 10 U.S. Early Career Scientists' travel to the 2019 International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Congress through this Travel Fellowship Program. The quadrennial INQUA International Congress represents the foremost opportunity for Quaternary (last 2.6 million years of Earth's history) scientists from around the world to present their research and discuss the latest developments in their disciplines. Without this assistance these scientists could not normally participate. This Congress, which has a special programming thread for early career scientists, will give U.S. participants the unique opportunity to discuss their original research among their cohort of awardees and with U.S. and international scientists at all career stages. These interactions will likely result in improvements of the analysis of existing data, and the generation of ideas for the gathering of additional data and the construction of new hypotheses through disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. The broader impact of this fellowship program is in the exposure of the awardees to excellent international research and in giving them the opportunity to show their research at the international level. Such participation will likely foster international collaboration, keep them engaged, give them the opportunity to interact with preeminent scientists across the many Quaternary science subdisciplines, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. These awardees can establish long-lasting scientific relationships as has happened in previous editions of the program. A mentoring component is also planned in which senior U.S. scientists help the awardees navigate the Congress and network effectively.The Board on International Scientific Organizations, part of the International Networks and Cooperation theme within the NAS Policy and Global Affairs Division, is home to the U.S. National Committee for the International Union for Quaternary Research (USNC/INQUA). The project will provide small travel fellowships to support U.S. graduate student and early career scientist participation in the 20th INQUA Congress to be held in Dublin, Ireland, July 25-31, 2019. USNC/INQUA will competitively award at least 10 travel fellowships at up to $2,000 each for U.S. citizens or permanent resident graduate students and early career scientists working on Quaternary research at U.S. institutions who are presenting papers as first authors at the 20th INQUA Congress and organize mentoring activities for the cohort. The process of selecting the travel award recipients will aim at increasing the active participation of those who have been traditionally underserved and underrepresented in the Earth sciences. This strategy is consistent with the goal of NSF's INCLUDES program. This program exposes awardees to the union and affords them the possibility of getting involved in the scientific and, eventually, governance activities representing the U.S. in INQUA. All of these fruitful interactions will advance U.S. Quaternary science.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.

美国国家科学院将通过此旅行奖学金计划支持 10 名美国早期职业科学家前往参加 2019 年国际第四元协会 (INQUA) 大会。四年一度的 INQUA 国际大会为来自世界各地的第四纪（地球历史的最后 260 万年）科学家提供了展示其研究成果并讨论其学科最新发展的绝佳机会。如果没有这种帮助，这些科学家就无法正常参与。本届大会为早期职业科学家设立了一个特殊的计划主题，将为美国参与者提供独特的机会，与获奖者以及处于各个职业阶段的美国和国际科学家讨论他们的原创研究。 这些相互作用可能会改进现有数据的分析，并产生收集额外数据的想法，并通过学科和跨学科工作构建新假设。该奖学金计划的更广泛影响在于让获奖者接触到优秀的国际研究，并让他们有机会在国际水平上展示他们的研究。这种参与可能会促进国际合作，让他们保持参与，让他们有机会与许多第四纪科学子学科的杰出科学家互动，并促进跨学科合作。这些获奖者可以像该计划的前几个版本一样建立持久的科学关系。还计划设立一个指导部分，由美国资深科学家帮助获奖者有效地指导国会和建立人际网络。国际科学组织委员会是美国国家科学院政策和全球事务司国际网络与合作主题的一部分，是美国的所在地。国际第四纪研究联盟国家委员会 (USNC/INQUA)。该项目将提供小额旅行奖学金，以支持美国研究生和早期职业科学家参加将于 2019 年 7 月 25 日至 31 日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的第 20 届 INQUA 大会。USNC/INQUA 将竞争性地授予至少 10 名旅行奖学金对于在美国机构从事第四纪研究并发表演讲的美国公民或永久居民研究生和早期职业科学家，每人最高 2,000 美元作为第一作者在第 20 届 INQUA 大会上发表论文，并为该群体组织指导活动。选择旅行奖获得者的过程将旨在提高那些传统上在地球科学领域服务不足和代表性不足的人们的积极参与。这一策略与 NSF 的 INCLUDES 计划的目标是一致的。该计划让获奖者接触到工会，并让他们有机会参与 INQUA 代表美国的科学活动，并最终参与治理活动。所有这些富有成效的互动将推动美国第四纪科学的发展。该奖项反映了 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。