Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Modeling: Coastal Ocean Circulation

该项目支持美国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。本次会议汇集了学术界，联邦和国际研究人员的多元化群体，分享最新进展，并确定沿海海洋建模的新挑战。会议重点关注数值建模和模拟应用的新的和最新的发展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程及其预测能力。正是在海岸，人类活动与海洋环流联系最紧密，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，例如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传播和扩散，绘制海洋生物栖息地的地图和描述其特征，以及缩小全球气候变率和气候变化模型的尺度，以推断其对沿海地区的影响。会议最重要的更广泛的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。近一半的会议时间被分配给与会者之间的非正式互动，以提供大量的机会来建立这些关系，并在不同年龄组，该领域的不同子学科或来自不同地理区域的人之间交流思想。资金将用于扩大人口，通过支持代表性不足和资源不足的团体出席会议，促进参与者的专业和地理多样性，这些团体将从戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会的知识环境和网络机会中受益。该项目为美国早期的研究人员提供旅行和注册支持。职业专业人士和学生参加戈登沿海海洋建模研究会议，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。海洋建模会议系列突出了数值建模和模拟应用的最新研究和未来趋势以及最新发展，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、沿岸的地带、大陆架和陆架断裂区，包括与邻近深海或边缘海的中尺度交换过程。 涵盖的主题是：边界层动力学，近岸和河口过程，冰架海冰模拟，物理学和生态系统的相互作用，沿海海洋的气候变化，次中尺度过程和内波，先进的数值方法，状态估计和数据同化，概率方法和风险评估。该项目还支持首届海洋建模戈登研究研讨会将于6月6日至7日与海洋建模戈登研究会议一起举行。该研讨会专为研究生，博士后研究员和其他具有可比经验和教育水平的科学家设计，强调尖端科学的介绍，并包括预定的讨论时间，以促进合议对话。

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.