2019 Coastal Ocean Dynamics Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

该奖项支持美国早期职业科学家参加两年一次的戈登海岸海洋动力学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、联邦和国际研究人员，分享沿海海洋动力学的最新进展并确定新的挑战。会议的重点是在应用理论、观测和数值模拟方面的新的和最新的发展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程和提高我们的预测能力。正是在沿海，人类活动与海洋环流联系最紧密，海洋模拟为把科学研究与社会需要联系起来提供了极大的希望，方法包括预报海洋作业和海洋安全、监测和预报水质、水媒病原体的运输和扩散、绘制海洋生物栖息地的地图和确定海洋生物栖息地的特征，以及缩小全球气候变异性和气候变化模型的比例，以推断其对沿海地区的影响。会议的一个重要的更广泛的影响是在各种机构的高级研究人员、初级研究人员和学生之间建立和培养关系。将近一半的会议时间被分配给与会者之间的非正式互动，以提供大量机会，在不同年龄段、不同领域的不同分支学科或不同地理区域的人之间建立这些关系和交流思想。资金将用于通过支持代表不足和资源不足的群体的出席，扩大参与者的人口、专业和地理多样性，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智力环境和网络机会。该奖项为美国早期职业生涯的专业人士和学生提供旅行和注册支持，以参加将于2019年6月16日至21日在新罕布夏州曼彻斯特的南新汉普郡大学举行的戈登沿海海洋动力学研究会议。该会议每两年召开一次，汇集了不同的学术、联邦和国际研究人员，分享沿海海洋动力学的最新进展并确定新的挑战。这里的“海岸”是指河口、海岸带、大陆架和陆架折裂区，包括与邻近深海或边缘海的中尺度交换过程。所涵盖的专题将包括：1)大陆架和近岸沉积物运移动力学；2)新的沿海海洋学测量和分析技术；3)生物地球化学动力学与沿海海洋物理之间的联系；4)沿海海洋观测和模拟；5)对浅海和近岸水域物理学的理解进展；6)河口物理学的进展；7)物理海洋学和海洋衍生能源；8)次中尺度过程和非线性内波；9)沿海动力学最新专题的讨论。海岸海洋动力学GRC将与戈登研究研讨会一起举办，该研讨会专门针对学生和早期职业科学家的专业发展，从而极大地扩大了GRC本身的广泛影响。在GRC包容历史的基础上，会议将包括一个特别会议(GRC Power Hour)，致力于支持我们科学界女性的专业成长。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the participation of U.S. based early career scientists in the biennial Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Dynamics 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 dynamics. The conference focuses on novel and recent developments in the application of theory, observations, and numerical modeling to further understanding coastal ocean processes and improving our predictive capabilities. 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, 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. An important broader impact of the conference is the establishment and nurturing of relationships between senior researchers, junior researchers and students for a variety of institutions. 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 award 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 Dynamics which will be held at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, from June 16-21, 2019. This conference, convened every two years, brings together a diverse group of academic, federal, and international researchers to share the latest advances and identify new challenges in coastal ocean dynamics. 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 covered will include: 1) Shelf and Nearshore Sediment Transport Dynamics; 2) Novel Coastal Oceanographic Measurements and Analysis Techniques; 3) Links Between Biogeochemical Dynamics and Coastal Ocean Physics; 4) Coastal Ocean Observation and Modelling; 5) Advances in Understanding the Physics of Shallow and Nearshore Coastal Waters; 6) Progress in Estuarine Physics; 7) Physical Oceanography and Ocean Derived Energy; 8) Sub-mesoscale Processes and Non-Linear Internal Waves; and 9) Discussion of Late-Breaking Topics in Coastal Dynamics. The Coastal Ocean Dynamics GRC will be accompanied by a Gordon Research Seminar that specifically targets professional development of students and early career scientists, thereby greatly expanding the broader impact of the GRC itself. Building on GRC's history of inclusion, the conference will include a special session (GRC Power Hour) dedicated to supporting the professional growth of women in our scientific communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.