Climate Informatics Workshop

理解和应对气候变化是21世纪的关键科学和社会挑战。卫星和环境传感器的最新进展使收集关于温度、海冰、海平面、降雨量、植被等的大量数据成为可能。迫切需要科学和技术专门知识来开发和有效应用计算工具，以利用这些数据建立越来越准确的预测模型，为我们了解和应对气候变化提供见解。该奖项支持关于气候信息学的三个系列研讨会，气候信息学是气候科学和数据科学交叉的新兴学科。这些研讨会通过向气候科学家和数据科学家介绍彼此学科的教程相结合的方式，邀请气候信息学方面的知名研究人员进行演讲，分组会议，并确定研究挑战和跨学科合作的机会，在建立充满活力的气候信息学研究社区方面发挥着至关重要的作用。该奖项为参加这三个讲习班的大约60名至研究生提供支持。这些讲习班有助于在涵盖气候科学和数据科学(包括机器学习、数据挖掘、推理、决策)的STEM领域对多样化的劳动力进行教育和跨学科培训，并努力扩大妇女和其他代表性不足群体对STEM研究和教育的参与。有关气候信息学研讨会系列的更多信息，请访问：https://sites.google.com/site/1stclimateinformatics/。

Understanding and responding to climate change is a key scientific and societal challenge of the 21st century. Recent advances in satellites and environmental sensors have made it possible to gather vast quantities of data concerning temperature, sea ice, sea level, rainfall, vegetation, etc. There is an urgent need for scientific and technical expertise for developing and effectively applying computational tools that can make use of such data to build increasingly accurate predictive models that offer insights to inform our understanding of, and response to, climate change. This award supports a series of three workshops on Climate Informatics, an emerging discipline at the intersection of climate sciences and data sciences. The workshops, through a combination of tutorials that introduce climate scientists and data scientists to each other's disciplines, invited talks by established researchers in climate informatics, breakout sessions and for identifying research challenges and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, serve a critically important role in building a vibrant Climate Informatics research community. The award provides support for the participation of approximately 60 to graduate students in each of the three workshops. The workshops contribute to the education and interdisciplinary training of a diverse workforce in STEM areas that span Climate Sciences and Data Sciences (including Machine Learning, Data Mining, Inference, Decision Making) as well as efforts to broaden the participation of women and other underrepresented groups in STEM research and education. Additional information about the Climate Informatics Workshop Series can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/1stclimateinformatics/