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AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | February 10, 2015 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | February 10, 2015 |
| Award Number: | 1503715 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Anjuli Bamzai
AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | May 1, 2015 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2016 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $17,950.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $17,950.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
5586 POST RD UNIT 2 EAST GREENWICH RI US 02818-3454 (401)783-4011 |
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West Kingston RI US 02892-0001 |
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Physical & Dynamic Meteorology, Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
The theme of the 2015 Radiation and Climate GRC is Towards Understanding the Interactions between Radiation, Clouds, Aerosol, Precipitation and Climate. The GRC will be held July 26-31, 2015 and will be preceded by the third Graduate Research Seminar on July 25-26, 2015. Together, these meetings will focus upon outstanding issues in aerosol, cloud, precipitation and radiation interactions from cloud to planetary scales. The GRC is novel in that it explicitly focuses on providing ample opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other early career scientists to interact with more senior researchers throughout each day of the conference.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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The 2015 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Radiation and Climate met all
expectations laid out in the original funding proposal. Targets for the numbers
of GRS participants were 40-60 and that for the GRC 140-160 under caps of 60 participants for the GRS and 200 participants for the GRC. Because the GRS filled all 60 slots so quickly, the GRS conference organizers expanded the GRS cap to 70, which also immediately filled up. In the end, the GRS had 70 registrants and 68 who showed up, with the three no shows (two from China and one from India) encountering VISA issues. Of the 68 GRS registrants, 60 were graduate students and early career scientists with the remaining 7 being chairs, vice chairs and senior scientist speakers from the GRC. Of the 60\ graduate students and early career scientists, 32 were female and 28 male. The GRS on Radiation and Climate is turning out to be hugely popular and successful, in no small part as a result of funding associated with this proposal.
The GRC had 168 registrants and 163 participants, with three of the no shows the same early career scientists who could not make the GRS. Of the 163 participants, 46 were early career female scientists, 48 were early career male scientists, 16 were senior female scientists, and 54 were senior male
scientists. The total of 163 participants for the GRC was comparable to the
past two GRCs on Radiation and Climate, illustrating that we have a healthy
conference.
The chairs of the GRS were Geeta Persad (graduate student, Princeton University) and Matthew Igel (post-doctoral researcher, University of Miami). Of the 10 graduate students and early career scientists presenting talks at the GRS, 6 were male and 4 female. Two of the talks, one by Edward Gryspeerdt (post-doctoral researcher, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology) and the other by Raphaela Vogel (graduate student, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), were selected for presentation on the Thursday evening session of the GRC, thereby enhancing participation of early career scientists in the GRC.
Of the initial invitations for the 22 GRC speakers (not including the 2 early
career scientist presentations selected from the GRS), 19 of them led
immediately to accepts, including for the 2 keynote addresses. Two of the
unsuccessful invitations went to senior female scientists. Of the 9 initial discussion leader invitations, 7 were successful, with the unsuccessful two both senior female scientists. These results attest to the continuing
reputation of the GRC on Radiation and Climate as a prestigious conference at which to give an extended talk and to guide discussions. In the end, 4 of the 22 talks were from female scientists, and 2 of the 9 discussion leaders were female scientists.
The quality of the talks was excellent (see the agenda at the back of this progress report for the final list of them) and led to significant discussion after each and every one, with both early career and senior scientists fully participating in them. In fact, the discussions quickly ate up the 20 minutes provided for them, leading to the thought that perhaps even longer discussion periods need to be worked into future GRCs on Radiation and Climate in some way.
Last Modified: 09/10/2015
Modified by: Eugene Clothiaux
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