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: 1829864
• 负责人: Claudia Cenedese
• 金额: $ 162.75万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829864&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Research; Training; Geophysical; Fluid

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Summer Program began in 1959 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with the aim of introducing a then relatively new topic in mathematical physics, geophysical fluid dynamics, to graduate students in physical sciences. It has been held each summer since and promotes an exchange of ideas among the many distinct fields that share a common interest in the dynamics of rotating, stratified fluids with similar properties and dynamics as the oceans. It is a ten-week program of interdisciplinary research and training entering its 6th decade of activity. By its very nature, the GFD program promotes the dissemination and exchange of scientific results among researchers from different backgrounds and at different career stages. New techniques from different disciplines are readily transferred across disciplinary borders, and a culture of unity and synergy between research and training is passed on to the fellows. The program often is the crucial mechanism by which the fellows meet prospective employers at the postdoctoral level and beyond, thus broadening their scientific network. The GFD program has global appeal and in the past, has attracted extremely talented young scientists to the US for postdoctoral research and academic positions through exposure to the US research community at a key formative moment in their careers. The topics selected for the proposed five-year cycle have strong broader impacts both in the disciplinary fields and to society at large. In a nutshell, the GFD Program acts as a conduit through which recent mathematical advances can improve the description of the global climate system, an issue of vital and important societal concern. Finally, the annual GFD Public Lecture targeted toward a general audience introduces the local community to the science of GFD.The GFD program provides a uniquely stimulating and supportive environment for cross-pollination of ideas and approaches among a wide range of subjects including applied mathematics, oceanography, fluid dynamics, geophysics, geology, meteorology, astrophysics, planetary science, engineering, and physics. Research and graduate training go hand in hand: a small group of outstanding graduate students (typically ten) known as "fellows" are charged with conducting advanced projects for the bulk of the summer and presenting their results in both oral and written reports during the final week. The fellows' 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 and productive collaborations among multiple advisors from varying fields and the fellows, and indeed among the fellows themselves. Furthermore, the fellows' research horizons are naturally broadened by working in such a concentrated fashion, both in terms of exposure to different research fields from those on which their theses are based, and in terms of the exposure to different techniques (mathematical, numerical or experimental) from those they have previously employed. The experience of working across traditional academic boundaries is a central, and highly valuable part of the training in the GFD program, and prepares the fellows well for future academic careers in emergent research fields. Each year, the program has a focus on a "theme" relevant to geophysical fluid dynamics, often selected to address an emergent key research challenge with immediate societal relevance and multidisciplinary character. The summer opens with two weeks of intensive principal lectures on the theme, typically given by two or more acknowledged experts. Thereafter, daily seminars are given by invited visitors and the staff. For 2019-2023 the proposed themes are: Stratified Turbulence and Ocean Mixing Processes, Data-driven Modeling in GFD, Exoplanetary GFD, Multiscale Modeling: Links to the Ocean Submesoscale, and Variational Methods in GFD.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.

地球物理流体动力学 (GFD) 夏季项目于 1959 年在伍兹霍尔海洋研究所开始，旨在向物理科学研究生介绍当时数学物理中相对较新的主题——地球物理流体动力学。此后每年夏天都会举行一次，促进了许多不同领域之间的思想交流，这些领域对具有与海洋相似的特性和动力学的旋转、分层流体的动力学有着共同的兴趣。这是一个为期十周的跨学科研究和培训项目，进入其活动的第六个十年。就其本质而言，GFD 项目促进了来自不同背景和不同职业阶段的研究人员之间科学成果的传播和交流。来自不同学科的新技术很容易跨越学科边界，研究和培训之间的团结和协同文化也传递给了研究员。该计划通常是研究员与博士后及以上级别的未来雇主会面的关键机制，从而扩大了他们的科学网络。 GFD 项目具有全球吸引力，过去曾吸引过非常有才华的年轻科学家到美国从事博士后研究和学术职位，通过在其职业生涯的关键形成时刻接触美国研究界。为拟议的五年周期选择的主题对学科领域和整个社会都有更广泛的影响。简而言之，GFD 计划充当了一个渠道，通过它，最新的数学进展可以改善对全球气候系统的描述，这是一个至关重要的社会关注问题。最后，面向普通观众的年度 GFD 公开讲座向当地社区介绍了 GFD 科学。GFD 计划为各种学科之间的思想和方法的交叉授粉提供了独特的激励和支持环境，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、工程学和物理学。研究和研究生培训齐头并进：一小群被称为“研究员”的优秀研究生（通常是十名）负责在夏季的大部分时间里开展高级项目，并在期末考试期间以口头和书面报告的形式展示他们的成果星期。研究员的研究项目由 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 GFD 代表的不同领域的学者，因此经常促进多个领域之间新的长期和富有成效的合作。来自不同领域的顾问和研究员，甚至是研究员本身。此外，通过如此集中的工作方式，研究员的研究视野自然而然地拓宽了，无论是在接触与论文所基于的研究领域不同的方面，还是在接触不同的技术（数学、数值或数学）方面。实验性的）来自他们以前雇用过的人。跨越传统学术界限的工作经验是 GFD 项目培训的核心且非常有价值的部分，它为研究员在新兴研究领域的未来学术生涯做好了充分准备。每年，该计划都会重点关注与地球物理流体动力学相关的“主题”，通常选择该主题来解决具有直接社会相关性和多学科特征的新兴关键研究挑战。夏季以为期两周的关于该主题的密集主要讲座开始，通常由两位或更多知名专家授课。此后，受邀访客和工作人员每天都会举办研讨会。 2019-2023 年的拟议主题是：分层湍流和海洋混合过程、GFD 中的数据驱动建模、系外行星 GFD、多尺度建模：与海洋次中尺度的联系以及 GFD 中的变分方法。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被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，认为值得支持。