2019 Coastal Ocean Dynamics Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

该奖项支持美国早期职业科学家参加两年一度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。这次会议汇集了学术界，联邦和国际研究人员的多元化群体，分享最新进展，并确定沿海海洋动力学的新挑战。会议重点关注理论，观测和数值模拟应用的新进展，以进一步了解沿海海洋过程并提高我们的预测能力。正是在海岸，人类活动与海洋环流联系最紧密，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，例如预测海洋作业和海上安全、监测和预测水质、水生病原体的传播和扩散、绘制海洋生物栖息地的地图和描述海洋生物栖息地的特征，以及缩小全球气候变率和气候变化模型的尺度，以推断其对沿海地区的影响。会议的一个重要的更广泛的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，为各种机构。近一半的会议时间被分配给与会者之间的非正式互动，以提供大量的机会来建立这些关系，并在不同年龄组，该领域的不同子学科或来自不同地理区域的人之间交流思想。资金将用于扩大人口，通过支持代表性不足和资源不足的团体出席会议，促进参与者的专业和地理多样性，这些团体将从戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会的智力环境和网络机会中受益。该奖项为美国的早期研究提供旅行和注册支持。职业专业人士和学生参加戈登沿海海洋动力学研究会议，该会议将于2019年6月16日至21日在新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特的南新罕布什尔州大学举行。该会议每两年召开一次，汇集了学术界，联邦和国际研究人员的多元化群体，分享最新进展，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、沿岸的地带、大陆架和陆架断裂区，包括与邻近深海或边缘海的中尺度交换过程。 涵盖的主题将包括：1）大陆架和近岸沉积物输运动力学; 2）新型沿海海洋测量和分析技术; 3）生物地球化学动力学与沿海海洋物理学之间的联系; 4）沿海海洋观测和建模; 5）了解浅水和近岸沿海沃茨水域物理学的进展; 6）河口物理学的进展; 7）物理海洋学和海洋衍生能量; 8）亚中尺度过程和非线性内波;和9）海岸动力学中的最新主题讨论。沿海海洋动力学GRC将伴随着戈登研究研讨会，专门针对学生和早期职业科学家的专业发展，从而大大扩大了GRC本身的更广泛的影响。基于GRC的包容性历史，会议将包括一个特别会议（GRC Power Hour），致力于支持我们科学界女性的专业成长。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 theory, observations, and numerical modeling to further understanding coastal ocean processes and improving our predictive capabilities. 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, 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. An important broader impact of the conference is the establishment and nurturing of relationships between senior researchers, junior researchers and students for a variety of institutions. 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 Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, from June 16-21, 2019. This conference, convened every two years, 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) Shelf and Nearshore Sediment Transport Dynamics; 2) Novel Coastal Oceanographic Measurements and Analysis Techniques; 3) Links Between Biogeochemical Dynamics and Coastal Ocean Physics; 4) Coastal Ocean Observation and Modelling; 5) Advances in Understanding the Physics of Shallow and Nearshore Coastal Waters; 6) Progress in Estuarine Physics; 7) Physical Oceanography and Ocean Derived Energy; 8) Sub-mesoscale Processes and Non-Linear Internal Waves; and 9) Discussion of Late-Breaking Topics in Coastal Dynamics. 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. Building on GRC's history of inclusion, the conference will include a special session (GRC Power Hour) dedicated to supporting the professional growth of women in our scientific communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.