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

为学生和早期职业科学家参加粘土矿物协会会议提供差旅支持

• 批准号: 2224821
• 负责人: Paul Schroeder
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224821&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; support; students; early; career

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.

这些 NSF 基金为美国的学生和早期职业粘土科学家提供支持，他们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。国际粘土研究协会（AIPEA）将涵盖粘土、家用产品、药品、建筑材料、新型纳米材料以及战略资源（包括石油）中的粘土主题。页岩和稀土元素矿藏）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非常重要，这样可以通过合作并最终出版来分享、辩论和推进想法。 70 年前，它每四年举办一次，展示世界上最好的粘土创新成果。在这次会议上，美国的学生和早期职业科学家接受了教育并与资深人士建立了联系。科学家们对各种网络的目标是培养未来的科学家并发展国际关系，使人们更容易探索粘土科学的永恒进步。本次会议举办了四场关于高岭土的研讨会：1) AIPEA 高岭土青年科学家学院。起源、特性和应用，2) 蒙皂石和膨润土表征的进展，3) 有机反应的粘土矿物催化，以及 4) 早期职业粘土科学家研讨会第一和第四次研讨会是。旨在将经验丰富的科学家与年轻的科学家就关键主题联系起来，并探索更好的发表、获得资金和网络的方法。所有研讨会均由来自政府、学术界和工业界的专家主持，他们发表了广泛的论文并在粘土界受到高度尊重。研究界将进行两次实地考察，考察粘土的勘探、开采和最终产品用途，会议涵盖了地球生物学感兴趣的广泛主题。和低温地球化学。学科包括与矿物学、关键区域科学、环境科学、医学和健康科学、功能化粘土和材料科学、土壤科学、工程和岩土应用、行星科学、粘土科学教学、粘土协会历史和工业材料相关的学科。 - 该场地位于土耳其伊斯坦布尔的伊斯坦布尔技术大学校园内，为所有学生提供住宿，会议指出，该场地在科学遗产中具有重要的历史意义。主题“新界面：用粘土连接大陆和文化”。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。