ISES - Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

每年为博士生开设一系列暑期班，讲授强调地质学科整合的主题。这些课程是社区推动的一项更大的努力--综合固体地球科学--的一部分，目的是促进固体地球科学教学和研究的一种新的综合方式。课程的例子有岩石圈流变学、应用于构造和岩石学的地质年代学、地球信息学以及变形和变质作用的数值和比例模型研究，这些主题正在经历快速发展，是多学科研究领域的典范。每所为期5天的学校将有15至20名高级研究生参加，专家科学家将利用讲座、计算机演示和/或动手演示相结合的方式，进行为期半天的概述。特别强调通过练习和讲课来整合学科。实地考察是这类学校的一个重要方面，因为它们为更公开地讨论可采取的实地研究方法提供了场所。暑期班的主题也是在与国家科学会议(例如，美国地质学会、美国地球物理联合会)联合举办的年度综合固体地球科学论坛上探讨的主题。

A series of annual Summer Schools for PhD-level students is being taught on topics that emphasize integration of the geological disciplines. The courses are part of a larger community-driven effort - Integrated Solid Earth Sciences - to promote a new, integrated way of approaching teaching and research in the solid earth sciences. Examples o f course topics are Rheology of the Lithosphere, Geochronology Applied to Tectonics and Petrology, GeoInformatics, and Numerical and Scale Model studies of Deformation and Metamorphism, topics that are experiencing rapid advances and are exemplary of multi-disciplinary research fields. Fifteen to twenty senior graduate students are attending each 5-day long school in which expert scientists are presenting half-day long overviews, using a combination of lectures, computer demonstrations and/or hands-on demonstration. Special emphasis is given to the integration of disciplines through exercises and lectures. Field trips are an essential aspect of such schools as they provide venues for more open discussions about approaches that could be taken for field-based research. Topics of summer schools are also the same topics explored in the annual Integrated Solid Earth Sciences Forum held in association with a national scientific meeting (e.g, Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union).