2017 Coastal Ocean Dynamics Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

该奖项支持美国的早期职业科学家参加两年一次的戈登沿海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团体，联邦和国际研究人员分享最新进展，并确定沿海海洋动力学的新挑战。会议的重点是在观测、理论、数值模拟和模拟应用方面的最新发展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程及其预测能力。海岸边是人类活动与海洋环流联系最紧密的地方，海洋建模为将科学研究与社会需求联系起来提供了巨大的希望，方法包括预测海洋作业和海上安全，监测和预测水质以及水生病原体的运输和扩散，绘制海洋生物栖息地的地图和特征，缩小气候变率和气候变化的全球模式，以推断它们对沿海地区的影响。会议最重要的广泛影响是建立和培养高级研究人员、初级研究人员和学生之间的关系。将近一半的会议时间被分配给参与者之间的非正式互动，为不同年龄组、不同领域的子学科或来自不同地理区域的人们提供了建立这些关系和交流思想的大量机会。资金将用于扩大参与者的人口、专业和地理多样性，支持代表性不足和资源不足的群体参加会议，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知识环境和交流机会。该奖项为参加将于2017年6月10日至16日在缅因州比德福德的新英格兰大学举行的戈登沿海海洋动力学研究会议的美国早期职业专业人士和学生提供旅行和注册支持资金。这个会议每两年召开一次，现在以前的GRC沿海海洋环流和沿海海洋模型已经结合起来，汇集了不同的学术团体，联邦和国际研究人员，分享最新的进展，并确定沿海海洋动力学的新挑战。这里的“沿海”一词是指河口、沿海带、大陆架和大陆架断裂区域，包括与邻近深海或边缘海的中尺度交换过程。主题将包括：1)高纬度海岸动态和交换过程；2)海岸模拟与数据同化；3)河口动力学研究进展；4)外大陆架到内大陆架的通量和转换；5)海岸输沙过程；6)物理海洋学对了解渔业和其他生态系统的挑战与成功；卫星同化与遥感新技术；8)海岸物理与生物地球化学的多尺度相互作用；9)最近的异常海洋状况和我们居住的海岸。2017年，沿海海洋动力学GRC将伴随戈登研究研讨会，专门针对学生和早期职业科学家的专业发展，从而大大扩大GRC本身的广泛影响。2017年的新活动是GRC力量时间，旨在支持我们科学界女性的专业成长，并在GRC包容的历史基础上继续发展。

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 observations, theory, and numerical modeling and simulation to furthering understanding of coastal ocean processes and our capabilities for their prediction. 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 and 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. The most important broader impact of the conference is the establishment and nurturing of relationships between senior researchers, junior researchers and students. 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 the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, June 10-16, 2017. This conference, convened every two years now that the former GRC Coastal Ocean Circulation and Coastal Ocean Modeling have been combined, 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) High-Latitude Coastal Dynamics and Exchange Processes; 2) Coastal Modeling and Data Assimilation; 3) Recent Advances in Estuarine Dynamics; 4) Fluxes and Transformation across the Outer to Inner Shelves; 5) Coastal Sediment Transport Processes; 6) Challenges and Successes in Physical Oceanography for the Understanding of Fisheries and Other Ecosystems; 7) New Techniques in Satellite Assimilation and Remote Sensing; 8) Multi-Scale Interactions of Coastal Physics and Biogeochemistry; and 9) Recent Anomalous Ocean Conditions and the Coasts Where we Live. In 2017 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. New in 2017 is a GRC Power Hour, created to support the professional growth of women in our scientific communities and to build on GRC's history of inclusion.