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Quantitative Skills for Solid Earth Geophysics - Scoping Meeting

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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.

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