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

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.

鸟类研究（鸟类学）往往分为许多科学团体，每个科学团体都专注于一两个国家的鸟类。这是一个问题，因为鸟类几乎无处不在，并且在迁徙中要移动很远的距离。他们无视国界。因此，来自不同国家研究鸟类的科学家（鸟类学家）将从更多的合作中受益。这是很难实现的，因为参加远程会议以建立新的伙伴关系可能在经济上令人望而却步，尤其是对于年轻的鸟类学家来说，他们是该领域的未来。 该项目将支持学生和早期职业专业人员前往参加 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)。会议主题为“应对全球挑战的飞行路径”及其加勒比海地区地点将汇集来自北美洲、中美洲和南美洲的鸟类学家。他们将见面讨论许多话题，包括移民、保护、生态和进化。科学亮点将包括著名鸟类学家的主题演讲、全体会议以及为期四天的各种主题的演讲。该会议将吸引许多来自波多黎各的与会者，他们往往无力承担在美国大陆举行会议的费用。届时将有五场辅导活动、约20场针对年轻参与者的研讨会以及公众参与的多项活动。该项目将为 60 多名参与者提供旅行资助。 NSF 的资金将增加召集协会已经提供的资金，以充分利用来自拉丁美洲和加勒比地区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会的参与者行列。预计将有超过 1,300 名与会者参加，他们代表学术界、非营利组织和不同的政府机构，其中包括来自北美、墨西哥、加勒比海和新世界热带地区的八个鸟类学会。 本次会议的几项举措借鉴了以往鸟类学会议的经验教训，旨在灌输信任并发展必要的基础设施，以协调整个西半球对鸟类及其赖以生存的环境的理解和保护。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。