The Eighth International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC8); Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 1-4, 2017

预测自然和人类排放的影响需要全球大气化学模型。虽然有这种模式，但尚未通过足够详细的观察加以测试或验证。这种对学生、早期职业和高级实验科学家的旅行支持将为建模者创造一个论坛，让他们向观测专家学习如何最好地评估和改进大气化学模型。它承诺创建一个社区，在那里建模者和实验者协同工作，以进一步提高大气化学的预测能力。 这一战略标志着两个社区过去一直独立开展工作的模式发生了转变。该项目将创建一个有意义的观测-建模交互，丰富更广泛的大气化学社区，并展示和连接NSF大气化学计划支持的研究。通过有针对性地将高级实验人员和初级建模人员聚集在一起，会议将有助于为年轻科学家提供科学培训和建立联系的机会，从而大大促进他们的职业发展。

Predictions of effects of natural and human emissions require global atmospheric chemistry models. While such models are available they have not been tested or validated with observations in sufficient detail. This travel support for students, early career and senior experimental scientists will create a forum for modelers to learn from observational experts on how best to evaluate and refine atmospheric chemistry models. It promises to create a community where modelers and experimentalists work synergistically to further the predictive power of atmospheric chemistry. This strategy represents a paradigm shift from the past where the two communities have been working independently. This project will create a meaningful observation-modeling interaction that will enrich the broader atmospheric chemistry community and also showcase and connect research supported by NSF's atmospheric chemistry program. By bringing together senior experimentalists and junior modelers in a targeted manner the meeting will serve to foster scientific training and networking opportunities for the younger scientists, thereby greatly enhancing their career development.