Interdisciplinary Research and Training at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program

地球物理流体动力学暑期计划(GFD)是一个为期十周的跨学科研究和研究生培训计划。该计划始于1959年，在伍兹霍尔海洋研究所举办了49年，目的是创造一种氛围，促进应用数学、天体物理、流体力学、地质学、地球物理学、气象学、海洋学、行星科学、工程学和物理学等广泛学科之间的思想交流。该计划的中心重点是对一小群研究生(通常是九到十名)进行研究培训，他们负责在暑假的大部分时间里进行高级研究项目，并在暑期计划结束时以口头和书面报告的形式展示他们的结果。这些研究项目由GFD工作人员单独或联合监督，GFD工作人员是一群参加该计划的夏季参与者，他们是来自GFD代表的不同领域的知名学者。每年，该计划都以一个与地球物理流体动力学相关的特定主题为主题。夏季以为期两周的主题主要讲座开始。受邀参观者继续在该计划的剩余时间里举办研讨会，既有与该主题相关的工作，也有关于地球物理流体动力学的一般主题。这个想法是让参与者接触到一个新的主题，以及它独特的现象学和技术，同时保持更广泛的视角，从而为跨学科互动奠定基础。在接下来的五年里，可能会探讨以下主题：非线性波、流体力学和生态系统、相干结构、浮力流和湍流转变。

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program (GFD) is a ten-week program of interdisciplinary research and graduate training. The Program began in 1959 and has been held for all 49 years of its lifetime at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with the purpose of creating an atmosphere to foster the transfer of ideas between a wide range of subjects including applied mathematics, astrophysics, fluid dynamics, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, planetary science, engineering, and physics. The central focus of the program is the training in research of a small group of graduate students (typically nine or ten), who are charged with conducting an advanced research project for the bulk of the summer, and presenting their results in both oral and written reports at the end of the summer program. The research projects are individually or jointly supervised by members of the GFD staff, a group of summer-long participants in the Program who are established academics from the diverse fields represented at GFD. Each year, the Program runs with a theme on a particular topic relevant to geophysical fluid dynamics. The summer opens with two weeks of principal lectures on the theme. Invited visitors continue to give seminars throughout the remainder of the Program, both on work related to the theme, but also on topics from geophysical fluid dynamics in general. The idea is to expose the participants to a new subject, with its particular phenomenology and techniques, while simultaneously maintaining a broader perspective, thus setting the stage for interdisciplinary interactions. In the coming five years, the following themes might be explored: Nonlinear Waves, Fluid Mechanics and Ecosystems, Coherent Structures, Buoyancy Currents, and Turbulent Transitions.