Conference Proposal: Support Student and Early Professional Attendance to the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

会议提案：支持学生和早期专业人士参加 2020 年北美鸟类学会议，波多黎各圣胡安

• 批准号: 2001973
• 负责人: Thomas Sherry
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Proposal; Support; Student; Early; Conference; Proposal; Support; Student; Early

The study of birds (Ornithology) tends to be divided among many scientific societies that each focus on birds of one or two countries. This is a problem because birds are found almost everywhere and move great distances in migration. They ignore national borders. Scientists from different countries who study birds (ornithologists) would thus benefit from working more together. This is hard to achieve because travel to distant meetings to form new partnerships can be financially prohibitive, especially for young ornithologists, who are the future of the field. This project will support travel by students and early career professionals to the 7th North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 10-15 August, 2020. The conference theme, "Flight Paths Addressing Global Challenges", and its Caribbean location will bring together ornithologists from across North, Central and South America. They will meet to talk about many topics, including migration, conservation, ecology and evolution. Scientific highlights will include a keynote address by a famous ornithologist, plenary talks, and four days of presentations on a wide variety of topics. The conference will attract many participants from Puerto Rico, who are often unable to afford meetings in the continental United States. There will be five mentoring activities, about 20 workshops targeted at young participants, and involvement of the public in multiple activities. This project will help fund travel of more than 60 participants. Funds from NSF will augment funds already provided by the convening societies, to leverage an extraordinary level of participation by ornithologists from Latin America and the Caribbean. Many of them will be joining participants from North American ornithological societies for the first time. More than 1,300 attendees are expected, representing academia, non-profit organizations, and diverse government agencies, and including eight ornithological societies from North America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the New World Tropics. Several initiatives in this conference build on lessons from previous ornithological conferences to instill trust and develop infrastructure necessary to coordinate understanding and protection of birds, and the environments on which they depend, throughout the Western Hemisphere.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.

鸟类（鸟类学）的研究往往分为许多科学社会，每个科学社会都集中在一个或两个国家的鸟类上。这是一个问题，因为几乎到处都发现了鸟类，并且在迁移中移动着很大的距离。他们忽略了国家边界。因此，来自研究鸟类（鸟类学家）的不同国家的科学家将从共同的共同努力中受益。这很难实现，因为前往遥远的会议以建立新的伙伴关系可能会在财务上是令人难以置信的，尤其是对于该领域的未来的年轻鸟类学家而言。 该项目将支持学生和早期职业专业人员的旅行，前往2020年8月10日至15日在波多黎各圣胡安举行的第七届北美鸟类学会议（NAOC）。会议主题是“应对全球挑战的飞行道路”，其加勒比海地点将汇集来自北部，中央和南美各地的Ornithologists。他们将开会谈论许多主题，包括移民，保护，生态和进化。科学的亮点将包括著名的鸟类学家，全体会议的主题演讲，以及有关各种主题的四天演讲。该会议将吸引许多来自波多黎各的参与者，他们通常无法负担美国大陆的会议。将有五项指导活动，大约有20个针对年轻参与者的研讨会，以及公众参与多项活动。该项目将有助于资助60多名参与者的旅行。 NSF的资金将增加召集社会已经提供的资金，以利用来自拉丁美洲和加勒比海的鸟类学家的非凡参与。他们中的许多人将首次加入北美鸟类学社会的参与者。预计将有1300多名参与者，代表学术界，非营​​利组织和各种政府机构，包括来自北美，墨西哥，加勒比海和新世界热带地区的八个鸟类学会。 这次会议上的几项举措是建立在以前的鸟类学会议上的教训，以灌输信任和开发基础设施，以协调对鸟类的理解和保护，以及它们所依赖的环境，以及在整个西半球的环境中，这奖颁奖典礼反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛的criperia来评估，这是NSF的法定任务。