Oceans and Human Health Symposium and Workshop: Accomplishments and Future Directions

海洋与人类健康研讨会和研讨会：成就和未来方向

• 批准号: 0951434
• 负责人: Lora Fleming
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0951434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Oceans; Human; Health; Symposium; Workshop

The urgency of the Oceans and Human Health (OHH) discipline grows daily as the world's population increases and continues to migrate to the coastal zone, at the same time that climate change threatens to impose varied disasters on that coastal zone. The unknowns surrounding the coastal zone and climate change have elevated the general issue of OHH to the level of a national security threat in the United States. Five years ago the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) cooperated to fund four national centers of Oceans and Human Health research. Each NSF-NIEHS center was tasked to actively pair biomedical scientists with ocean scientists in the pursuit of answers to scientific questions arising at the interface of these two previously separate areas of inquiry. We have now reached the point where we should synthesize the knowledge we have gained over the past five years, identify the most important discoveries, and attempt to describe areas in which future oceans and human health research would be most productive.With support from this award, researchers at the University of Miami will convene an Oceans and Human Health Symposium and Workshop to review and discuss in a comprehensive and synthetic way what has been accomplished over the past five years by the four NSF-NIEHS Centers and what the new discipline of OHH could accomplish over the next decade. The meeting is scheduled for April, 2010, in Washington, DC.The meeting agenda will be built around two general foci: OHH advances to-date and future challenges. Topics for the OHH advances portin will include: (1) direct human microbial health hazards in recreational marine waters; (2) ocean food web health hazards; (3) modeling and prediction of Harmful Algal Blooms; and (4) interdisciplinary training. The future challenges portion will include: (1) climate change; (2) natural disasters; (3) coastal impacts; and (4) nterdisciplinary training.Broader Impacts: This symposium/workshop will provide a venue for research networking and collaborative interactions not only between current Center researchers and students, but also among other researchers, science administrators, and policy makers in multiple federal agencies and other organizations in the expanding the OHH community. This will also be an opportunity for all participants to assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of a centers-oriented approach to federally supported OHH research.

随着世界人口的增加并继续向沿海地区迁移，同时气候变化有可能给沿海地区带来各种灾难，海洋与人类健康（OHH）学科的紧迫性与日俱增。沿海地区和气候变化的未知因素已将 OHH 的普遍问题提升到对美国国家安全构成威胁的程度。五年前，美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 和美国国立环境健康科学研究所 (NIEHS) 合作资助了四个国家海洋与人类健康研究中心。每个 NSF-NIEHS 中心的任务是积极将生物医学科学家与海洋科学家配对，以寻求这两个先前独立的研究领域交界处出现的科学问题的答案。 现在，我们应该综合过去五年中获得的知识，确定最重要的发现，并尝试描述未来海洋和人类健康研究最富有成效的领域。在该奖项的支持下迈阿密大学的研究人员将召开海洋与人类健康研讨会和研讨会，以全面、综合的方式回顾和讨论四个 NSF-NIEHS 中心在过去五年中所取得的成就以及 OHH 的新学科可以并在未来十年内完成。会议定于 2010 年 4 月在华盛顿特区举行。会议议程将围绕两个主要焦点：OHH 迄今为止的进展和未来的挑战。 OHH 进展部分的主题将包括：(1) 休闲海洋水域中微生物对人类健康的直接危害； (2)海洋食物网健康危害； (3) 有害藻华的建模和预测； (4)跨学科培训。 未来挑战部分将包括：（1）气候变化； （二）自然灾害； (3) 沿海影响； (4) 跨学科培训。 更广泛的影响：本次研讨会/讲习班将为当前中心研究人员和学生之间，以及多个联邦机构和其他研究人员、科学管理人员和政策制定者之间的研究网络和协作互动提供场所。扩大 OHH 社区的其他组织。 这也将为所有参与者提供一个机会，评估联邦支持的 OHH 研究以中心为导向的方法的相对优势和劣势。