Interdisciplinary Research and Training at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program

概述：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。GFD始于1959年，在伍兹霍尔海洋研究所举办了54年。知识价值：GFD项目有两个同等重要的管理目的。首先是提供合适的环境和培养合适的氛围，以促进广泛学科之间的思想转移，包括应用数学、海洋学、流体动力学、地球物理学、地质学、气象学、天体物理学、行星科学、工程学和物理学。第二种是通过研究训练一小群研究生（通常是9到10人），他们在暑假的大部分时间里负责一个高级项目，并在最后一周以口头和书面报告的形式展示他们的成果。这两个目的在设计上是交织在一起的：学生的研究项目由GFD的工作人员单独或联合监督，这些工作人员是一群来自GFD不同领域的学者，他们参加了一个暑假，因此经常促进多名导师和他们的学生之间新的长期合作。每年，该计划侧重于与地球物理流体动力学相关的特定主题，通常选择以解决当时科学界的需求。夏季以两周的主题讲座开始。在这两个教学周之后，在整个计划的剩余时间里，每天都有受邀的访客举办研讨会，既讨论与主题有关的工作，也讨论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，具有其特殊的现象学和技术，同时保持更广阔的视角，从而为跨学科的互动奠定基础。在未来五年内，将探讨以下主题，每个主题都具有很强的社会相关性和跨学科性质：气候动力学；生物流体力学（花样游泳）；冰-海相互作用：海底融化；地球物理流体动力学与环境可持续性；和地球物理流体动力学中的随机效应。更广泛的影响：凭借其话语和互动的风格，GFD自然促进了来自不同背景的研究人员之间的科学成果传播；来自不同学科的技术很容易跨越学科边界，并且很容易理解不同领域问题之间的相似之处。GFD促进发现和理解，同时通过让研究生参与研究来促进教学和培训。该项目经常向研究生介绍博士后及以上级别的潜在雇主，并拓宽他们的科学网络；GFD过去曾帮助吸引了许多极具才华的年轻科学家到美国从事博士后研究和学术职位。为拟议的五年周期选定的专题具有强烈的广泛影响；例如，旨在改进对影响人类社会和福祉的气候变化的未来预测，并改进气候模式中冰盖动态的表现，从而能够准确预测海平面上升，这是一个至关重要的社会关切问题。整个夏季还将致力于环境可持续性，对能源和资源的使用产生更广泛的影响。最后，一年一度的GFD公开讲座面向普通观众，向当地社区（包括科学界和公众）介绍地球物理流体动力学科学及其许多重要和有趣的应用。

Overview: The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program (GFD) is a ten-week program of interdisciplinary research and graduate training. GFD began in 1959 and has been held for all 54 years of its lifetime at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Intellectual Merit: The GFD program has two equally important governing purposes. The first is to provide the right environment and nurture the right atmosphere to foster the transfer of ideas between a wide range of subjects including applied mathematics, oceanography, fluid dynamics, geophysics, geology, meteorology, astrophysics, planetary science, engineering, and physics. The second is to train through research a small group of graduate students (typically nine or ten), who are charged with conducting an advanced project for the bulk of the summer, and to present their results in both oral and written reports during the final week. These two purposes are by design intertwined: the student research projects are individually or jointly supervised by members of the GFD Staff, a group of summer-long participants who are academics from the diverse fields represented at GFD and thereby, often catalyze new long-lasting collaborations between multiple advisors and their students.Each year, the Program focuses on a particular topic relevant to geophysical fluid dynamics, often selected to address the needs of the scientific community at the time. The summer opens with two weeks of principal lectures on the theme. After these two pedagogical weeks, daily seminars are given by invited visitors 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 next five years, the following themes will be explored, each of which has a strong societal relevance and interdisciplinary nature: Climate Dynamics; Bio-fluid mechanics (Synchronized Swimming); Ice-Ocean Interaction: Submarine Melting; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and environmental sustainability; and Stochastic Effects in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.Broader Impacts: By virtue of its very discursive and interactive style, GFD naturally promotes the dissemination of scientific results among researchers from very different backgrounds; techniques from different disciplines are readily transferred across disciplinary borders, and parallels between problems in very different fields can be easily appreciated. GFD advances discovery and understanding, while promoting teaching and training by involving graduate students in research. The Program often introduces the graduate students to prospective employers at the postdoctoral level and beyond, and broadens their scientific network; GFD has in the past helped to attract many extremely talented young scientists to the US for postdoctoral research and academic positions. The topics selected for the proposed five-year cycle have strong broader impacts; for example aiming at improving future projections of climate change, with impact on human societies and well-being, and at improving the representation of ice sheet dynamics in climate models, hence the ability to accurately predict sea-level rise, an issue of vital and important societal concern. An entire summer will also be dedicated to environmental sustainability with a broader impact on energy and resource use. Finally, the annual GFD Public Lecture targeted toward a general audience introduces the local community (both scientific and general public) to the science of geophysical fluid dynamics and its many important and interesting applications.