Interdisciplinary Research and Training at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program

地球物理流体动力学项目的跨学科研究和培训

• 批准号: 1332750
• 负责人: Claudia Cenedese
• 金额: $ 134.22万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-15 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1332750&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Research; Training; Geophysical; Fluid

Overview: The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program (GFD) is a ten-week program of interdisciplinary research and graduate training. GFD began in 1959 and has been held for all 54 years of its lifetime at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Intellectual Merit: The GFD program has two equally important governing purposes. The first is to provide the right environment and nurture the right atmosphere to foster the transfer of ideas between a wide range of subjects including applied mathematics, oceanography, fluid dynamics, geophysics, geology, meteorology, astrophysics, planetary science, engineering, and physics. The second is to train through research a small group of graduate students (typically nine or ten), who are charged with conducting an advanced project for the bulk of the summer, and to present their results in both oral and written reports during the final week. These two purposes are by design intertwined: the student research projects are individually or jointly supervised by members of the GFD Staff, a group of summer-long participants who are academics from the diverse fields represented at GFD and thereby, often catalyze new long-lasting collaborations between multiple advisors and their students.Each year, the Program focuses on a particular topic relevant to geophysical fluid dynamics, often selected to address the needs of the scientific community at the time. The summer opens with two weeks of principal lectures on the theme. After these two pedagogical weeks, daily seminars are given by invited visitors throughout the remainder of the Program, both on work related to the theme, but also on topics from geophysical fluid dynamics in general. The idea is to expose the participants to a new subject, with its particular phenomenology and techniques, while simultaneously maintaining a broader perspective, thus setting the stage for interdisciplinary interactions. In the next five years, the following themes will be explored, each of which has a strong societal relevance and interdisciplinary nature: Climate Dynamics; Bio-fluid mechanics (Synchronized Swimming); Ice-Ocean Interaction: Submarine Melting; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and environmental sustainability; and Stochastic Effects in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.Broader Impacts: By virtue of its very discursive and interactive style, GFD naturally promotes the dissemination of scientific results among researchers from very different backgrounds; techniques from different disciplines are readily transferred across disciplinary borders, and parallels between problems in very different fields can be easily appreciated. GFD advances discovery and understanding, while promoting teaching and training by involving graduate students in research. The Program often introduces the graduate students to prospective employers at the postdoctoral level and beyond, and broadens their scientific network; GFD has in the past helped to attract many extremely talented young scientists to the US for postdoctoral research and academic positions. The topics selected for the proposed five-year cycle have strong broader impacts; for example aiming at improving future projections of climate change, with impact on human societies and well-being, and at improving the representation of ice sheet dynamics in climate models, hence the ability to accurately predict sea-level rise, an issue of vital and important societal concern. An entire summer will also be dedicated to environmental sustainability with a broader impact on energy and resource use. Finally, the annual GFD Public Lecture targeted toward a general audience introduces the local community (both scientific and general public) to the science of geophysical fluid dynamics and its many important and interesting applications.

概述：地球物理动力学夏季计划（GFD）是一个为期十周的跨学科研究和研究生培训的计划。 GFD始于1959年，已在伍兹霍尔海洋学院（Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution）持续了54年。智力优点：GFD计划具有两个同样重要的管理目的。首先是提供正确的环境并培养正确的气氛，以促进各种主题之间的思想转移，包括应用数学，海洋学，流体动力学，地球物理学，地质学，气象学，天体物理学，行星科学，工程学，工程和物理学。第二个是通过研究培训一小群研究生（通常是九名或十个），他们被控为夏季大部分地区进行高级项目，并在最后一周的口头和书面报告中呈现其结果。这两个目的是通过设计交织在一起的：学生研究项目是由GFD员工的成员单独或共同监督的，GFD员工是一群夏季的参与者，这些参与者是来自GFD代表的各种领域的学者，因此通常会促进多个顾问与学生之间的新长期合作的培养。 时间。夏天以主题为主题两周的主讲座开幕。在这两个教学周之后，在该计划的其余部分中，邀请访问者进行了每日研讨会，均与与主题相关的工作，以及一般地球物理流体动力学的主题进行。这个想法是通过其特殊的现象学和技术将参与者暴露于新主题，同时保持更广泛的视角，从而为跨学科的互动奠定了基础。在接下来的五年中，将探讨以下主题，每个主题具有很强的社会意义和跨学科的性质：气候动态；生物流体力学（同步游泳）；冰山互动：海底熔化；地球物理动力学和环境可持续性； Boader的影响：由于其非常话语和互动风格，GFD自然促进了来自不同背景的研究人员的科学结果的传播；来自不同学科的技术很容易在纪律边界上转移，并且在非常不同领域的问题之间的相似之处很容易被理解。 GFD通过让研究生参与研究来促进发现和理解，同时促进教学和培训。该计划经常在博士后及以后的潜在雇主介绍研究生，并扩大其科学网络。 GFD过去曾帮助吸引许多非常有才华的年轻科学家进入美国的博士后研究和学术职位。为拟议的五年周期选择的主题具有更大的影响。例如，旨在改善气候变化的未来预测，对人类社会和福祉的影响，并改善气候模型中冰盖动态的代表，因此能够准确预测海平面上升的能力，这是一个重要而重要的社会问题问题。整个夏天还将致力于环境可持续性，并对能源和资源的使用有更广泛的影响。最后，针对普通观众的年度GFD公开演讲将当地社区（科学和公众）介绍地球物理流体动力学及其许多重要且有趣的应用科学。