NSF Org:	EAR Division Of Earth Sciences
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE
Initial Amendment Date:	May 26, 2010
Latest Amendment Date:	May 26, 2010
Award Number:	1023675
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Jennifer Wade jwade@nsf.gov  (703)292-4739 EAR  Division Of Earth Sciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	June 1, 2010
End Date:	May 31, 2011 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$26,998.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$26,998.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2010 = $26,998.00
History of Investigator:	Claudia Pasquero (Principal Investigator) claudia.pasquero@unimib.it
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of California-Irvine 160 ALDRICH HALL IRVINE CA  US  92697-0001 (949)824-7295
Sponsor Congressional District:	47
Primary Place of Performance:	University of California-Irvine 160 ALDRICH HALL IRVINE CA  US  92697-0001
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	47
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	MJC5FCYQTPE6
Parent UEI:	MJC5FCYQTPE6
NSF Program(s):	COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS, Geophysics, Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics
Primary Program Source:	01001011DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	9263, 4444
Program Element Code(s):	127100, 157400, 574000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

This proposal requests funds to help support travel and meeting costs for students and early career scientists at U.S. institutions to the 28th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics ?Modelling Earth Dynamics: Complexity, Uncertainty and Validation? to be held in June 7-11, 2010 in Pisa, Italy. The conference website is http://cmg2010.pi.ingv.it/index.html.

This conference brings together Earth scientists from across the disciplines with physicists, applied mathematicians, and computational scientists to discuss advances in mathematical and computational techniques for understanding properties and processes in the Earth. This year?s meeting emphasizes aspects of the mathematical modeling of the Earth dynamics, with particular enphasis on the use and effectiveness of models in predicting environmental phenomena. This meeting provides a single multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques across the disciplinary boundaries in the Earth Sciences. Funds are requested to support travel and lodging costs for 9 students, post-docs, and early career scientists which is approximately one third of the number attending past meetings.

This meting is highly interdisciplinary and international in nature and provides an important opportunity for U.S. students and early career scientists from across the earth sciences and applied mathematics to interact with senior scientists in a small informal setting. We will directly contact faculty members in Geophysics in universities and colleges that have a large number of students from under-represented groups, to encourage their students and collegues to apply for a travel and lodging grant to attend the conference. This year there will also be an increased emphasis on the use and effectiveness of mathematical models in predicting environmental phenomena. This topic is of great interest not only to the scientific community but to the whole humanity, as the outcome of Earth models impacts the decisions of governments regarding the human induced changes on landscapes and climate.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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The 28th Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, supported by the National Science Foundation, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and the Italian Institute of Geology and Volcanology, was held on June 7-11, 2010, in Pisa, Italy. The conference theme was "Modeling Earth Dynamics: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Validation". There have been 165 participants from different continents, and different fields.  NSF funds have supported participation from students and young scientists, including one Colombian woman, based in the US. The participation of philosophers together with scientists has been particularly interesting, leading to ample discussion on communicating science (and in particular climate change) to the general public.

The program of the conference included the following sessions:

0. Can our models only predict the irrelevant? (Special Session in onor of Prof. Tarantola)

1. Geophysical fluid dynamics I - Volcanoes

2. Geophysical fluid dynamics II - Sub-surface and surface flows

3. Geophysical fluid dynamics III - Atmosphere and ocean

4. Brittle deformation and computational seismology

5. Geodynamics and geomagnetism

6. Environmental systems and climate

7. Quantifying the uncertainty in Earth Systems

Further information on the conference can be found on the conference website http://cmg2010.pi.ingv.it .

The next Conference on Mathematical Geophysics will take place in June 2012, in Edinburgh (UK).

 

 

Last Modified: 06/30/2011
Modified by: Claudia Pasquero

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