2007 Coastal Ocean Modeling GRC

知识价值：沿海海洋模拟的主题是当今海洋和环境科学中许多科学问题和工程挑战的核心。沿海地区人口的增加，伴随着与海洋资源管理、执法和安全有关的问题的加剧，导致对沿海过程进行定量了解和预测的重要性增加。所有这些活动都强调了在沿海海洋现象的自然多学科背景下，公众和国家对理解沿海海洋现象的兴趣不断扩大。今天的沿海海洋模拟需要物理、生物和地质模拟。这些子领域的耦合导致了公共和科学利益的具体结果：重要物种的特定地点种群动态，工业行动的环境影响，有害藻华，近海钻探，沿海地貌变化和海洋作业（包括军事和民用问题）。这次戈登研究会议致力于理解和预测发生在海洋的河口、陆架和陆架断裂区域的过程。这些是海洋系统的区域，受到强烈的人类强迫和相互作用的影响。更广泛的影响：与所有GRC一样，本次会议旨在聚集该领域的领军人物，并使他们彼此接触，并与相关学科的研究生接触，努力在该领域播下新思想的种子。在今年的项目中，30位演讲者和讨论领袖中有8位是女性。

Intellectual Merit: The topic of coastal ocean simulation is central to many scientific questions and engineering challenges in ocean and environmental science today. The increase in human population in coastal regions, with concomitant exacerbation of issues associated with marine resource management, enforcement and security, has led to an increase in the importance of a quantitative understanding and prediction of coastal processes. All of these activities emphasize the expanding public and national interest in understanding coastal ocean phenomena, in their natural multi-disciplinary setting. Coastal Ocean simulation today requires physical, biological and geological simulations. The couplings of these sub-fields have led to specific outcomes of public and scientific interest: site-specific population dynamics of important species, environmental impacts of industrial actions, harmful algal blooms, offshore drilling, changes in coastal geomorphology, and marine operations (which include military and civilian issues).This Gordon Research Conference is devoted to the understanding and prediction of processes occurring in the estuarine, shelf, and shelf-break regions of the ocean. These are regions of the marine system that are subject to intense human forcing and interaction.Broader Impacts: This conference seeks, as do all GRC's, to gather leading people in the field and to bring them into contact with each other and with graduate students in relevant disciplines in an effort to seed new thoughts across the field. During this year's program eight of the thirty speakers and discussion leaders are women.