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

2010年气象/光与色彩露天会议；

• 批准号: 0962429
• 负责人: Charles Adler
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: St Mary's College of Maryland
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-15 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0962429&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2010; Meteorological; Light; Color; Open

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.

智力功绩这个奖项将部分资助选定的参与者在2010年气象/光和颜色在露天会议在安纳波利斯旅行。这些“光与色”会议自20世纪70年代以来一直在举行，讨论自然界中光学现象的研究，特别是大气和景观中的光。这些话题不仅本身很吸引人，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。所涉及的主题包括甲虫发光，彩虹的光学，旧石器时代艺术中的彩虹，以及对被困在北极圈上空的水手所做观察的讨论。 2010年会议将讨论的专题包括：彩虹光学;冰晶晕;天空颜色;极光光学;雪花物理学;以及大气光学在计算机制图和动画中的应用。 这些会议也有很强的艺术成分：与会者拍摄的照片是自然摄影中最引人注目的;今年会议的另一个优点是将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约1年出版。更广泛的影响这些会议不仅激发了大量的研究和数百篇关于景观中的光和颜色的论文，而且还激发了许多关于这个主题的流行书籍，流行文章，这些论文和其他关于大气光学的CD ROM收藏，以及大量的流行讲座，无论是在会议上还是在与会者的机构中。2010年的会议将有几个特点，旨在促进广泛的影响，以整个社区，包括一个艺术展。与会者被要求借出他们最好的光线和彩色照片，用于一个特别的艺术展，该艺术展将与会议同时在圣玛丽学院博伊登艺术画廊举行。本次展览将在圣玛丽县和华盛顿地区做大量广告宣传;画廊免费向公众开放。公开讲座：长期参加会议的斯坦利·格泽尔曼博士将在会议开始前几天向公众做一个特别讲座（题为“气象与艺术”）。讲座将免费向公众开放，并再次在当地和华盛顿社区做广告。主旨发言人：每个会议的主旨发言人都是经过精心挑选的，以扩大每个会议的影响和兴趣。在这次会议上，我们邀请了计算机图形学专家来讨论光学和图形学之间的接口，特别是在动画电影制作中的应用。K-12推广：会议的主题，光在景观和大气中的作用，是一个真正普遍感兴趣的，跨越许多学科的主题。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物理学的兴趣。五名当地高中科学教师将获得津贴，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科学事业（或至少对科学感兴趣）。