Workshop Proposal: Increasing U.S. Graduate Student Participation in the International Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology

该奖项的目的是提高美国研究生在为期三周的古气候学夏季研讨会的出席率，该研讨会于2010年7月13日至8月4日在意大利乌尔比诺大学举行。 古气候学乌尔比诺暑期学校汇集了领先的研究人员和研究生，他们对使用古气候学来帮助预测未来几十年的气候感兴趣。夏季小组目前的组成包括参与开发气候预测系统、了解气候变化机制和评估潜在最终用户数据需求的研究人员。 与往年一样，参与者包括经验丰富的研究人员，新的调查人员和研究生。 经验和文化的融合使气候科学的交流更加开放和活跃。美国是资助古气候学的国际领导者，这反映在美国教师在暑期学校的强大代表性上。然而，美国研究生的代表性低于其他国家。 这就导致了课程中所传授知识的美国受益者之间的不平衡。该奖项的目的是使更多的美国学生参加夏季课程，最终目标是为早期职业的美国研究生提供为期三周的住宅沉浸式课程，学习最先进的数据分析和建模技术，用于重建地球气候。 对乌尔比诺夏季课程的支持有助于培养未来的研究人员谁是更好地连接，全球网络。 这一点很重要，因为古气候学是一门全球性的科学，需要跨越地理界限的数据。

The purpose of this award is to increase U.S. graduate student attendance in a three-week long summer workshop in paleoclimatology conducted at the University of Urbino in Italy from July 13 through August 4, 2010. The Urbino summer school in paleoclimatology brings together leading researchers and graduate students who share an interest in using paleoclimatology to help predict the climate of the coming decades. The current makeup of the summer group includes researchers involved in developing climate prediction systems, understanding mechanisms of climate variability, and assessing the needs of potential end users of data. As with previous years, the participants include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and graduate students. The mix of experience and cultures enables an open and lively exchange on climate science.The U.S. is the international leader in funding for paleoclimatology and this is reflected in the strong representation of U.S. instructors in the summer school. The representation of U.S. graduate students, however, is lower than that of other countries. This leads to an imbalance among U.S. beneficiaries of the knowledge transferred during the course. The purpose of this award is to enable greater attendance by U.S. students in the summer course with the ultimate goal of providing early-career U.S. graduate students with a three-week residential immersion course in state of the art techniques for data analysis and modeling used in the reconstruction of Earth's climate. Support for the Urbino summer course helps foster a network of future researchers who are better connected, globally. This is important because paleoclimatology is a global science that needs data from across geographic boundaries.