Workshop: Development of Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems Studies; Golden, Colorado; June 2007

该提案要求支持将于2007年6月在科罗拉多戈尔登的科罗拉多矿业学院举办的为期5天的讲习班。 该研讨会的重点是构建地壳变形的数值模型，以解决各种地球物理挑战，包括：约束断层和周围地壳及上地幔的流变行为，确定大地测量数据约束断层加载速率的能力，以及在地震周期的时间尺度上发生的处理之间建立联系（秒到100年）和与岩石圈长期地质演化有关的（105到106年）。这次研讨会是在前几次关于同一主题的研讨会取得成功的基础上举办的。 这些讲习班吸引了大批研究生、博士后和初级教员，其中女科学家占很大比例。 除了具体的地球物理挑战之外，这个研讨会还提供了一个就公共软件构建项目的关键方向达成共识的场所。

This proposal requests support for a 5-day workshop to be held in June 2007 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The workshop focuses on constructing numerical models of crustal deformation that address a variety of geophysical challenges including: constraining the rheological behavior of faults and the surrounding crust and upper mantle, determining the ability of geodetic data to constrain fault loading rates, and developing a link between processing occurring on time scales of the seismic cycle (seconds to 100s of years) and those associated with longer term geologic evolution of the lithosphere (105 to 106 years). This workshop builds on the success of several previous workshops on the same topic. These workshops attract a large contingent of graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty with a strong representation of women scientists. Beyond the specific geophysical challenges, this workshop also provides a venue for building consensus on key directions to be taken in communal software building project.