Workshop Proposal: Increasing U.S. Graduate Student Participation in the International Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology

该奖项的目的是增加美国研究生参加2010年7月13日至8月4日在意大利乌尔比诺大学举办的为期三周的古气候学夏季研讨会。乌尔比诺古气候学暑期班聚集了顶尖的研究人员和研究生，他们都有兴趣利用古气候学来帮助预测未来几十年的气候。夏季小组目前的组成包括参与开发气候预测系统、了解气候变化机制和评估潜在最终数据用户需求的研究人员。与往年一样，参与者包括经验丰富的研究人员、新调查人员和研究生。经验和文化的融合使气候科学方面的交流变得开放和活跃。美国是古气候学资金的国际领先者，这从美国教师在暑期学校的强大代表中得到了反映。然而，美国研究生的比例低于其他国家。这导致了美国受益者对课程期间所传授的知识的不平衡。该奖项的目的是让更多的美国学生参加暑期课程，最终目标是为职业生涯早期的美国研究生提供为期三周的住宅沉浸式课程，学习用于重建地球气候的最先进的数据分析和建模技术。对乌尔比诺夏季课程的支持有助于培养未来的研究人员网络，他们在全球范围内联系更紧密。这一点很重要，因为古气候学是一门全球性的科学，需要跨越地理边界的数据。

The purpose of this award is to increase U.S. graduate student attendance in a three-week long summer workshop in paleoclimatology conducted at the University of Urbino in Italy from July 13 through August 4, 2010. The Urbino summer school in paleoclimatology brings together leading researchers and graduate students who share an interest in using paleoclimatology to help predict the climate of the coming decades. The current makeup of the summer group includes researchers involved in developing climate prediction systems, understanding mechanisms of climate variability, and assessing the needs of potential end users of data. As with previous years, the participants include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and graduate students. The mix of experience and cultures enables an open and lively exchange on climate science.The U.S. is the international leader in funding for paleoclimatology and this is reflected in the strong representation of U.S. instructors in the summer school. The representation of U.S. graduate students, however, is lower than that of other countries. This leads to an imbalance among U.S. beneficiaries of the knowledge transferred during the course. The purpose of this award is to enable greater attendance by U.S. students in the summer course with the ultimate goal of providing early-career U.S. graduate students with a three-week residential immersion course in state of the art techniques for data analysis and modeling used in the reconstruction of Earth's climate. Support for the Urbino summer course helps foster a network of future researchers who are better connected, globally. This is important because paleoclimatology is a global science that needs data from across geographic boundaries.