A Graduate Research Traineeship Program in Coastal Ocean Processes

针对“沿海海洋过程”这一地球科学的优先领域，提出了研究生研究培训计划。在海洋研究研究生院(CMS)的海洋学课程中，我们有一个博士学位课程，我们建议对其进行修改，以提供额外的“沿海海洋过程”(COP)专业。该COP方案建立在近岸海洋学领域的现有重点、沿海和河口海洋学高级课程、高级物理海洋学课程和海洋学家海洋政策课程的基础上。来自CMS的15名教职员工已经同意参加这个最初的项目。另有同等数量的近海海洋学一般领域的教师和研究人员将增加这个实习生项目的资源基础；尽管最初没有就这个项目联系到他们，但一些人可能会在以后作为学生的潜在顾问加入。在过去的十年里，17名学生从CMS获得了海洋学博士学位，每个人的学位论文都侧重于近岸海洋学研究。为这些学生提供建议的六名教职员工是这里提议的新项目的参与者。尽管这些以前的学生没有对新课程提出的相同的具体要求，但许多人确实参加了一门或多门高级河口和沿海海洋学课程，几名非物理学家确实参加了高级物理海洋学课程，并在论文和参考出版物中使用了动力物理海洋模型。大多数人参加了海洋政策方面的课程。我们认为，我们已经证明了我们有能力为海洋学学位提供沿海海洋过程方向的培训，我们有能力招收更多的学生，并为这笔GRT补助金所支持的学生提供建议。

A Graduate Research Traineeship (GRT) program is proposed for the priority of Geosciences are of "Coastal Ocean Processes". In the Oceanography Program of the Graduate College of Marine Studies (CMS), we have a PhD degree program that we propose to modify to provide an additional new specialization in "Coastal Ocean Processes" (COP). This COP program is built on an existing emphasis in nearshore oceanographic areas, an advanced course in coastal and estuarine oceanography, an advanced physical oceanography course, and a course in marine policy for oceanographers. There are 15 faculty members from the CMS who have agreed to participate in this initial program. An additional equal number who teach and do research in the general area of nearshore oceanography will add to the resource base for this traineeship program; although not contacted for this program initially, some may join later as potential advisors for the students. Over the past decade, 17 students have received PhD degrees in Oceanography from the CMS in which there was an emphasis in each one's dissertation research in nearshore oceanography. The six faculty who advised these students are participants in the new program that is proposed here. Although these previous students did not have the same specific requirements as are proposed for the new program, many did take one or more advanced estuarine and coastal oceanography courses and several of the non-physicists did take advanced physical oceanography courses and used dynamical physical oceanographic modelling in dissertations and refereed publications. Most took a course in marine policy. We feel that we have demonstrated the ability to give training in a coastal ocean processes orientation for an oceanography degree and that we have the capacity to recruit and advise the additional number of students that this GRT grant would support.