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This scoping meeting will bring together stakeholders in academia, government, and industry to gauge their interests and needs for a quantitative training framework to educate the next generation of solid Earth scientists and discuss new and innovative approaches to develop sustained training initiatives that can fill these gaps.
Description
A quantitatively-literate workforce is needed to investigate the multi-scale, multi-physics solid Earth science processes at the core of many scientific and societally-relevant problems. However, such skills are in short supply in some Earth science disciplines, such as geodesy and potential fields, in part because of deficiencies in K-12 STEM education and limited postsecondary curricula focused on geoscience applications. This scoping meeting will bring together stakeholders in academia, government, and industry to gauge their interests and needs for a quantitative training framework to educate the next generation of solid Earth scientists and discuss new and innovative approaches to develop sustained training initiatives that can fill these gaps. The objectives are to develop a community-developed framework of programming, data analysis, mathematics, statistics, potential fields, continuum mechanics, and computational modules. This project is a collaboration of the Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, and the Board on Science Education.
Contributors
Sponsors
Internal Funding
Staff
Deborah Glickson
Lead
Jon Eisenberg
Lead
Kerry Brenner
Lead
Michelle Schwalbe
Lead
Major units and sub-units
Center for Health, People, and Places
Lead
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Lead
Division on Earth and Life Studies
Lead
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Lead
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
Lead
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics
Lead
Board on Science Education
Lead
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Lead
Earth Systems and Resources Program Area
Lead
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