2011 Coastal Ocean Modeling Gordon Research Conference

2011年沿海海洋建模戈登研究会议

• 批准号: 1118326
• 负责人: John Wilkin
• 金额: $ 1.7万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1118326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2011; Coastal; Ocean; Modeling; Gordon

Intellectual Merit: Gordon Research Conferences have an excellent recipe for success, developed over decades and hundreds of conferences across the scientific disciplines. The Gordon Foundation provides substantial cost sharing and infrastructure support, and additional contributions are solicited from private foundations and federal agencies. Program chairs, elected by the community, form a program committee which invites leading researchers to present critical summaries of a range of important problems and to highlight the latest developments. Discussion leaders have also been recruited to stimulate and moderate discussion among the participants. Most people who attend the conference report that it is the best science conference they have attended in the past year.This particular Gordon conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling is held every four years in a retreat setting (this year at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA). It brings together a diverse group of academic, federal and international researchers to share the latest discoveries and identify new challenges in coastal ocean modeling. Many of the topics explored in this conference (e.g. advances in numerics, nearshore modeling, mesoscale processes, ecosystem dynamics) are directly relevant to NSF research areas.Broader Impacts: The most important broad impact of the conference is the establishment and nurturing of relationships between senior researchers and students/junior researchers. Because nearly half of the conference time is allocated to informal interactions among participants, and because Gordon Research Conferences are held in retreat-like locations, there is unparalleled opportunity to build these relationships and exchange ideas among people in not only different age groups, but also in different sub-areas of the field, or in different geographic regions.

智力优势：戈登研究会议有一个成功的秘诀，它是经过数十年和数百次跨越科学学科的会议而发展起来的。戈登基金会提供大量成本分摊和基础设施支持，并从私人基金会和联邦机构征求额外捐款。由社区选出的项目主席组成一个项目委员会，邀请领先的研究人员对一系列重要问题提出批判性总结并强调最新进展。还招募了讨论领导者来刺激和调节参与者之间的讨论。大多数参加会议的人都表示，这是他们去年参加过的最好的科学会议。戈登沿海海洋建模会议每四年在一次静修场所举行（今年在马萨诸塞州南哈德利的曼荷莲学院举行）。它汇集了学术、联邦和国际研究人员的多元化群体，分享最新发现并确定沿海海洋建模的新挑战。本次会议探讨的许多主题（例如数值进展、近岸建模、中尺度过程、生态系统动力学）与 NSF 研究领域直接相关。 更广泛的影响：会议最重要的广泛影响是建立和培养高级研究人员和学生/初级研究人员之间的关系。由于近一半的会议时间分配给参与者之间的非正式互动，并且由于戈登研究会议是在类似静修的地点举行，因此不仅在不同年龄段的人们之间，而且在该领域的不同子领域或不同地理区域的人们之间，都有无与伦比的机会建立这些关系并交流思想。