Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Modeling: Coastal Ocean Circulation

该项目支持美国的早期职业科学家参加四年一度的戈登海洋建模研究会议及其相关的戈登研究研讨会。这次会议汇集了不同的学术团体，联邦和国际研究人员，分享沿海海洋建模的最新进展，并确定新的挑战。会议重点讨论了数值模拟和模拟应用的最新发展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程及其预测能力。海岸边是人类活动与海洋环流联系最紧密的地方，海洋建模为将科学研究与社会需求联系起来提供了巨大的希望，方法包括预测海洋作业和海上安全，监测和预测水质以及水生病原体的运输和扩散，绘制海洋生物栖息地的地图和特征，缩小气候变率和气候变化的全球模式，以推断它们对沿海地区的影响。会议最重要的广泛影响是建立和培养高级研究人员、初级研究人员和学生之间的关系。将近一半的会议时间被分配给参与者之间的非正式互动，为不同年龄组、不同领域的子学科或来自不同地理区域的人们提供了建立这些关系和交流思想的大量机会。资金将用于扩大参与者的人口、专业和地理多样性，支持代表性不足和资源不足的群体参加会议，这些群体将受益于戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会形式的知识环境和交流机会。该项目为参加戈登沿海海洋建模研究会议的美国早期职业专业人士和学生提供旅费和注册支持，该会议将于2015年6月7日至12日在缅因州比德福德的新英格兰大学举行。海洋模拟会议系列强调了数值模拟和模拟应用的最新研究和未来趋势以及最近的发展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程及其预测能力。这里的“沿海”一词是指河口、沿海带、大陆架和大陆架断裂区域，包括与邻近深海或边缘海的中尺度交换过程。涵盖的主题包括：边界层动力学，近岸和河口过程，冰架-海冰模型，物理和生态系统相互作用，沿海海洋气候变化，亚中尺度过程和内波，高级数值方法，状态估计和数据同化，概率方法和风险评估。该项目还支持将于6月6日至7日与海洋建模戈登研究会议一起举行的首届海洋建模戈登研究研讨会。该研讨会专为研究生、博士后研究员和其他具有相当经验和教育水平的科学家设计，强调展示前沿科学，并安排讨论时间以促进学院对话。

This project supports the participation of U.S. based early career scientists in the quadrennial Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Modeling and its associated Gordon Research Seminar. This conference brings together a diverse group of academic, federal and international researchers to share the latest advances and identify new challenges in coastal ocean modeling. The conference focuses on novel and recent developments in the application of numerical modeling and simulation to furthering understanding of coastal ocean processes and our capabilities for their prediction. It is at the coast that human activities are most connected with ocean circulation, and ocean modeling offers great promise for connecting scientific research to societal needs through such efforts as forecasting for marine operations and maritime safety, monitoring and prediction of water quality and the transport and dispersal of water borne pathogens, mapping and characterizing the habitats of marine life, and downscaling global models of climate variability and climatic change to infer their impacts in the coastal zone. The most important broader impact of the conference is the establishment and nurturing of relationships between senior researchers, junior researchers and students. Nearly half of the conference time is allocated to informal interactions among participants, to provide numerous opportunities to build these relationships and exchange ideas among people in different age groups, different sub-disciplines of the field, or from different geographic regions. Funds will be used to expand the demographic, professional and geographic diversity of participants by supporting attendance by under-represented and under-resourced groups who stand to benefit from the intellectual environment and networking opportunities of the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar formats.This project provides funding for travel and registration support to U.S. based early-career professionals and students to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling which will be held at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, from June 7-12, 2015. The Ocean Modeling conference series highlights the latest research and future trends and recent developments in the application of numerical modeling and simulation to furthering understanding of coastal ocean processes and our capabilities for their prediction. Here the term "coastal" refers to estuarine, littoral zone, continental shelf, and shelf-break regions, including mesoscale exchange processes with the adjacent deep-ocean or marginal seas. The topics to be covered are: Boundary layer dynamics, Near-shore and estuarine processes, Ice shelf-sea-ice modeling, Physics and ecosystem interactions, Climate change in the coastal ocean, Sub-mesoscale processes and internal waves, Advanced numerical methods, State estimation and data assimilation, and Probabilistic approaches and risk assessment. The project also supports the inaugural Ocean Modeling Gordon Research Seminar to be held June 6-7 in conjunction with the Ocean Modeling Gordon Research Conference. The seminar, designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education, emphasizes the presentation of cutting edge science and includes scheduled discussion time to foster collegial conversations.