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

本提案要求支持将于2007年6月在科罗拉多州戈尔登市的科罗拉多矿业学院举办为期5天的讲习班。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：限制断层及其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加载率的能力，并在地震周期的时间尺度（秒到100年）和岩石圈的长期地质演化（105到106年）之间建立处理之间的联系。这次研讨会建立在前几次关于同一主题的研讨会的成功基础上。这些研讨会吸引了大批研究生、博士后和年轻教师，其中有很多女性科学家。除了具体的地球物理挑战之外，这个研讨会还为在公共软件构建项目中要采取的关键方向建立共识提供了一个场所。

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.