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

该提案请求支持将于2007年6月在科罗拉多州戈尔德市科罗拉多矿业学院举办的为期5天的研讨会。讲习班侧重于建立地壳形变数值模型，以应对各种地球物理挑战，其中包括：限制断层及周围地壳和上地幔的流变行为，确定大地测量数据限制断层负荷率的能力，并在地震周期(数秒至100s年)的时间尺度上进行的处理与与岩石圈较长期地质演化(105年至106年)有关的处理之间建立联系。这次讲习班是在前几次关于同一主题的讲习班取得成功的基础上举办的。这些研讨会吸引了一大批研究生、博士后和初级教员，其中有很强的女科学家代表。除了具体的地球物理挑战之外，这个研讨会还提供了一个场所，让人们就公共软件建设项目的主要方向达成共识。

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.