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：地球物理流体动力学夏季项目 (GFD) 是一个为期十周的跨学科研究和研究生培训项目。 GFD 始于 1959 年，在伍兹霍尔海洋研究所举办了 54 年。智力优势：GFD 计划有两个同样重要的管理目的。首先是提供合适的环境并培育合适的氛围，以促进应用数学、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、工程学和物理学等广泛学科之间的思想交流。第二个是通过研究培训一小群研究生（通常是九个或十个），他们负责在暑假的大部分时间里进行高级项目，并在最后一周以口头和书面报告的形式展示他们的结果。这两个目的在设计上是交织在一起的：学生的研究项目由 GFD 工作人员单独或共同监督，这些工作人员是一群夏季参与者，他们是来自 GFD 不同领域的学者，因此经常催生新的长期研究多名顾问及其学生之间的合作。每年，该计划都会重点关注与地球物理流体动力学相关的特定主题，通常选择满足当时科学界的需求。夏季以为期两周的主题主要讲座开始。在这两周的教学周之后，在该计划的剩余时间内，受邀访客每天都会举办研讨会，既有与主题相关的工作，也有关于地球物理流体动力学的一般主题。这个想法是让参与者接触一个新的学科，及其独特的现象学和技术，同时保持更广阔的视角，从而为跨学科互动奠定基础。未来五年，将探讨以下主题，每个主题都具有很强的社会相关性和跨学科性质：气候动力学；生物流体力学（花样游泳）；冰海相互作用：海底融化；地球物理流体动力学和环境可持续性；更广泛的影响：凭借其非常推论和互动的风格，GFD 自然地促进了来自不同背景的研究人员之间科学成果的传播；来自不同学科的技术很容易跨越学科边界，并且可以很容易地理解不同领域的问题之间的相似之处。 GFD 促进发现和理解，同时通过让研究生参与研究来促进教学和培训。该计划经常将研究生介绍给博士后及以上水平的未来雇主，并拓宽他们的科学网络； GFD 过去曾帮助吸引许多极具才华的年轻科学家到美国从事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广泛的影响；例如，旨在改善对气候变化对人类社会和福祉的影响的未来预测，并改善气候模型中冰盖动态的表示，从而提高准确预测海平面上升的能力，这是一个至关重要的问题重要的社会关注。整个夏天还将致力于环境可持续性，对能源和资源的使用产生更广泛的影响。最后，面向普通观众的年度 GFD 公开讲座向当地社区（科学界和公众）介绍地球物理流体动力学科学及其许多重要且有趣的应用。