Support for Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes Workshop

支持构造过程模拟建模研讨会

• 批准号: 1537902
• 负责人: Michele Cooke
• 金额: $ 2.96万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1537902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Analog; Modeling; Tectonic; Processes

This project provides funding for travel support for U.S. researchers and students to attend a workshop on "Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes" to be held in Amherst, Massachusetts, in early May of 2015. Analog model experiments contribute substantially to the understanding of tectonic processes. In these experiments, weaker materials (sand, clay, etc.) take the place rocks and are deformed at high strain rates under controlled conditions thus producing scale models of the development of earth structures (faults, folds) and large-scale tectonic features (mountain belts, rift systems). The aim of this workshop is to bring together the structural geology analog modeling community to discuss exciting innovations in analog modeling research, authentic science curriculum materials, and future directions for analog modeling. This community includes analog experimentalists, students, instructors who use analog models in their classrooms and researchers who are interested in comparing their observations to analog experiment results. The workshop will promote the analog modeling skills of early career structural geologists, thereby developing the future workforce in tectonics. The conference will promote the participation of students, early career scientists, and researchers from underrepresented groups in the earth sciences.The past 10 years have seen a revolution within analog modeling of crustal deformation spurred by systematic rheological testing of analog materials and use of laser and image processing techniques for data analysis leading to a strengthening of the quantitative aspect of analog modeling. The vanguard of this revolution has been in Europe where laboratories have been implementing new approaches that permit greater control on experimental conditions, more accurate scaling of deformation and improved insights into the evolution of deformation and deformation processes. This multi-day workshop on analog modeling combines discussions on experimental approaches with presentation of scientific findings. The workshop involves: (1) running an experiment at the host lab; (2) discussions of various approaches, techniques and data analysis tools; (3) discussion on needs of the community and future directions for analog modeling research; and (4) exercises devoted to bringing analog experiments into the classroom.

该项目为美国研究人员和学生提供旅费支持，以参加将于2015年5月初在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特举行的“构造过程的模拟建模”研讨会。相似模型实验对认识构造过程有重要意义。在这些实验中，较弱的材料（沙子、粘土等）在受控条件下以高应变率变形，从而产生地球结构（断层、褶皱）和大规模构造特征（山脉带、裂谷系统）发展的比例模型。本次研讨会的目的是将结构地质模拟建模社区聚集在一起，讨论模拟建模研究中令人兴奋的创新，真实的科学课程材料以及模拟建模的未来方向。该社区包括模拟实验人员，学生，在课堂上使用模拟模型的教师和有兴趣将他们的观察结果与模拟实验结果进行比较的研究人员。该研讨会将促进早期职业结构地质学家的模拟建模技能，从而发展未来的劳动力在构造。该会议将促进学生、早期职业科学家和来自地球科学领域代表性不足群体的研究人员的参与。过去10年，在模拟材料的系统流变测试以及激光和图像处理技术的使用的推动下，地壳变形模拟建模发生了一场革命。数据分析导致模拟建模的定量方面得到加强。这场革命的先锋一直在欧洲，那里的实验室一直在实施新的方法，可以更好地控制实验条件，更准确地缩放变形，并改善对变形和变形过程演变的见解。这个为期多天的模拟建模研讨会将实验方法的讨论与科学发现的介绍相结合。讲习班包括：（1）在主机实验室运行实验;（2）讨论各种方法，技术和数据分析工具;（3）讨论社区的需求和模拟建模研究的未来方向;（4）致力于将模拟实验带入课堂的练习。