2010 Meteorological/Light and Color in the Open Air Conference; St. Marys City, Maryland; June 16-20, 2010

该奖项将部分资助参加2010年在安纳波利斯举行的露天会议的气象学/光与色会议的部分与会者的旅费。这些“光与色”会议自1970年S以来一直在举行，讨论对自然界中的光学现象，特别是大气和风景中的光的研究。这些话题不仅本身令人着迷，而且还跨越了许多不同的科学学科：气象学家与物理学家和生物学家互动，有天赋的业余爱好者也会在学者面前展示他们的发现。讨论的主题包括甲虫的污秽，彩虹的光学，旧石器时代艺术中的彩虹，以及对滞留在北极圈上空的水手所做的观察的讨论。2010年会议将讨论的议题包括：彩虹的光学；冰晶光环；天空的颜色；极光的光学；雪花物理；以及大气光学在计算机图形和动画中的应用。这些会议也有很强的艺术性：与会者拍摄的照片是自然摄影中最引人注目的照片之一；今年会议的另一个好处是在圣玛丽学院博伊登画廊举办这些照片的艺术展。会议记录将发表在《应用光学》杂志的特刊上，该杂志将在会议结束后大约一年内出版。更广泛的影响这些会议不仅激发了许多关于景观中光和颜色主题的研究和数百篇论文的灵感，还启发了一些关于这一主题的畅销书、流行文章、这些论文和其他关于大气光学的光盘集，以及在会议和与会者机构中的大量流行讲座。2010年的会议将有几个特色，旨在促进对整个社区的广泛影响，包括一个艺术展。会议的与会者被要求将他们最好的光线和彩色照片借给一个特别的艺术展，该艺术展将与会议同时在圣玛丽学院博伊登美术馆举行。这次展览将在圣玛丽县和华盛顿特区地区做大量广告宣传；画廊免费向公众开放。公开演讲：长期参加会议的Stanley Gedzelman博士将在会议开始前几天向公众作一次特别演讲(题为“气象学与艺术”)。讲座将免费向公众开放，并再次在当地和华盛顿特区社区进行广告宣传。主旨演讲人：精心挑选每个会议的主旨演讲人，以扩大每个会议的影响和兴趣。在这次会议上，我们邀请计算机图形学专家讨论光学和图形之间的接口，特别是在动画电影制作中使用的接口。K-12扩展：会议的主题，光在风景和大气中的发挥，是一个真正具有普遍兴趣的跨许多学科的主题。这次会议最广泛的影响之一是它如何激发人们对我们周围自然世界的物理学感兴趣。当地五名高中理科教师将获得津贴，参加会议的特别会议和午餐会，讨论如何利用自然世界的美丽来激励学生从事职业(或至少对科学感兴趣)。

Intellectual Merit This award will partially fund travel by selected participants in the 2010 Meteorological/Light and Color in the Open Air Conference in Annapolis. These "Light and Color" conferences have been held since the 1970's to discuss research on optical phenomena in nature, especially light in the atmosphere and landscape. These topics are not only fascinating in themselves, but also cut across many different scientific disciplines: meteorologists interact with physicists and biologists, and gifted amateurs also present their findings before academics. Topics covered have included beetle irridescence, the optics of the rainbow, rainbows in paleolithic art and discussions of observations made by sailors stranded above the arctic circle. Topics which will be covered at the 2010 meeting will include: the optics of the rainbow; ice crystal haloes; sky colors; optics of the aurora; snowflake physics; and the applications of optics of the atmosphere in computer graphics and animation. There is also a strong artistic component to these meetings: pictures taken by participants are among the most striking in nature photography; one of the additional merits of this years meetings will be an art show of these photos at Boyden Gallery at St. Mary's College. The conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of the journal Applied Optics, which will appear about 1 year following the conference. Broader Impacts These meetings have not only inspired much research and several hundred papers on the subject of light and color in the landscape, but have served as the inspiration for a number of popular books on the subject, popular articles, a CD ROM collection of these papers and others on atmospheric optics, and a large number of popular lectures, both at the conferences and at the institutions of the attendees. The 2010 conference will have several features designed to promote a broad impact to the community at large, including an art show. Attendees at the conference are being asked to loan their best light and color photographs for a special art show which will be running concurrently with the conference at the St. Mary's College Boyden Art Gallery. The show will be advertised heavily in the St. Mary's County and Washington, DC area; the gallery is free and open to the public.Public Lecture: Dr. Stanley Gedzelman, a long-time attendee of the conferences, will be giving a special lecture to the public (entitled "Meteorology and Art") a few days before the conference begins. The lecture will be free and open to the public, and again advertised throughout the local and Washington, DC community. Keynote Speaker: The Keynote Speaker for each conference is carefully chosen to broaden the impact and interest of each conference. At this conference, we are inviting experts on computer graphics to discuss the interface between optics and graphics, especially as used in the production of animated films.K-12 Outreach: The subject of the conference, the play of light in the landscape and atmosphere, is one which is truly of universal interest and spans many disciplines. One of the broadest impacts of the conference is how it can inspire people with interest in the physics of the natural world around us. Five local area high school science teachers will be given stipends to attend a special session and luncheon at the conference to discuss how to use the beauty of the natural world to inspire students to follow careers (or at least take interest in) the sciences.