GLADE Workshop: July 26-29, 2010 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography San Diego, CA

2010年7月26日至29日在斯克里普斯海洋研究所举行的“岩石圈和地球深部地球动力学”（GLADE）研讨会旨在使大部分分散的岩石圈和地幔动力学研究人员走出？森林？并进入一个开放的论坛，开始讨论重大的科学问题，作为一个社区，并解决这些问题所带来的挑战。GLADE旨在为美国地球动力学社区提供一个嵌套的平台，以展示和讨论最先进的和新兴的研究方向。随着计算地球动力学已经进入预测能力的领域，这一高度技术性的学科需要一个深入和专业讨论的场所，以便我们可以相互学习。然而，地球动力学界也认识到观测在发展和限制地球动力学模型方面的重要作用，特别是来自构造、板块重建和地球物质流变学等领域的观测。为了实现这一目标，会议强烈鼓励来自构造学界的参与，并旨在促进地球动力学和构造学界之间有意义的和持续的接触。GLADE会议的内容将集中在超越固体地球动力学的主要突出科学问题以及行星演化和动力学的相关主题上。科学内容分布在会议的前三天，而最后一天将用于地球动力学软件的教程和技术研讨会。这些演示和教程旨在强调下一代地球动力学软件和社区支持的现有软件的进步，其中大部分已经由地球动力学计算基础设施（CIG）支持和维护。所有出席的研究生将被要求参加技术项目，但其他（高级）参与者可以在科学项目后离开。会议采用了一种新颖的形式，旨在更好地整合海报，口头和讨论会议，以及指定时间让学生与主题演讲人见面。此外，CIG指导委员会将在会议的第一个晚上举办一个市政厅讨论会，以获得社区对过去和未来软件开发优先事项的投入。这项工作得到了地球物理学、构造学和海洋地质学地球物理学项目的支持。

The workshop on "Geodynamics of the Lithosphere and Deep Earth" (GLADE), held July 26-29, 2010 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography aims to bring the largely fragmented lithosphere and mantle dynamics researchers out of the ?forest? and into an open forum to begin discussing major scientific questions together as a community and address the challenges those provide. GLADE is intended to serve as a nesting ground for the US Geodynamics community to present and discuss both state-of-the-art and emerging research directions.With the view that computational geodynamics has moved into the realm of predictive capability, this highly technical discipline needs a venue for in-depth and specialized discussion in order that we may learn from each other. However, the geodynamics community also recognizes the essential role that observations have in developing and constraining geodynamic models, in particular those coming from areas such as tectonics, plate reconstructions, and rheology of Earth materials. Towards this goal, the meeting strongly encourages participation from the tectonics community and aims to foster meaningful and continual engagement between the geodynamics and tectonics communities.The content of the GLADE meeting will be focused upon ma jor outstanding scientific issues that transcend solid Earth geodynamics and related topics in planetary evolution and dynamics. The scientific content is spread over the first three days of the meeting, while the final day will be set aside for tutorials and technical workshops on geodynamics software. These demonstrations and tutorials are intended to emphasize next-generation geodynamics software and community-supported advances to existing software, much of which has been championed and maintained by the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG). All graduate students in attendance will be required to participate in the technical program, but other (senior) participants may leave after the scientific program. The meeting adopts a novel format that seeks to better integrate poster, oral, and discussion sessions, as well as designate time for students to meet with keynote speakers. In addition, the CIG steering committee will host a townhall discussion on the first evening of the meeting in order to gain input from the community regarding past and future software development priorities.This effort is supported by the Geophysics, Tectonics, and Marine Geology & Geophysics Programs.