A mini-workshop to define scientific strategies and next steps for optimizing the OOI-node on Hydrate Ridge

一个小型研讨会，旨在定义优化 Hydrate Ridge 上 OOI 节点的科学策略和后续步骤

• 批准号: 1608177
• 负责人: Marta Torres
• 金额: $ 2.1万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1608177&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: mini; workshop; define; scientific; strategies

Marine gas hydrates comprise a vast offshore reservoir of natural gas. They provide a potential significant untapped energy resource and also present serious potential continental slope landslide hazards capable of generating devastating tsunamis as they decompose and destabilize slope sediments as seawater warms. This workshop on natural marine gas hydrates supports the participation of US scientists at a 1.5-day workshop aimed at showcasing the infrastructure and capabilities of the new NSF-funded and operational Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) cabled infrastructure at Hydrate Ridge off the coast of the northwestern US. The workshop provides a venue for discussion of science and scientific questions that can be tackled at the Hydrate Ridge node, one of three instrumented sites on the cabled observatory. The Hydrate Ridge node was originally envisioned as a natural laboratory where the temporal evolution of dynamic gas hydrate systems could be examined in detail to determine fluxes of methane from the seafloor into the ocean and understand the biogeochemical coupling associated with gas-hydrate formation and dissociation. The OOI Hydrate Ridge workshop will be held March 4th and 5th, 2016 at the same location and immediately following 4th Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrates in Galveston Texas. The timing and location of the workshop were designed to be as cost effective as possible by leveraging off the travel of Gordon Conference attendees who will stay an additional 1.5 days to attend this workshop. Funding from NSF will be used to help subsidize the additional conference days and support the participation of key researchers who may otherwise not be attending the Gordon Conference, but whose input was instrumental in generating site survey data and defining the research objectives for the Hydrate Ridge node in OOI's original founding documents. Also to be discussed will be the wealth of knowledge and technological advances that have taken place since the initial guiding scientific documents. Strategies for optimizing the scientific returns that can be made possible by this new facility will also be discussed. Broader impacts of the workshop include potential impacts on energy, climate, and geohazards with deep linkages into biology, chemistry, physics, permafrost science, marine science, geotechnical engineering, and petroleum engineering.

船用气水合物包括广大的海上天然气储层。它们提供了潜在的大量未开发能源，并提出了严重的潜在大陆坡度滑坡危险，能够在分解并破坏海水温暖时会产生毁灭性海啸并破坏坡度沉积物。关于天然海洋气体水合的研讨会支持美国科学家参加为期1.5天的研讨会，旨在展示新的NSF资助的新型NSF资助和Operations Opean Ocean Persianvatories Initiative（OOI）基础设施的基础设施和能力，该基础设施在我们西北地区的水合沿海地区遍布了我们的西北地区。该研讨会为讨论科学和科学问题提供了一个场所，可以在水合岭节点（The Hydrate Ridge Node）上解决，这是电缆天文台上三个乐器站点之一。 水合脊节点最初是作为自然实验室设想的，可以详细检查动态气体水合系统的时间演变，以确定从海底进入海洋的甲烷的通量，并了解与气体水合物形成和解散相关的生物地球化学耦合。 OOI Hydrate Ridge研讨会将于2016年3月4日至5日在同一地点举行，并在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿的第4届戈登天然气水合研究会议之后立即举行。研讨会的时机和位置旨在通过利用戈登会议参与者的旅行来尽可能效率，他们将额外保留1.5天的时间参加该研讨会。 NSF的资金将用于帮助补贴额外的会议日，并支持否则可能不会参加戈登会议的主要研究人员的参与，但其投入有助于生成现场调查数据并确定OOI原始创始文档中水合岭节点的研究目标。 还将讨论的是自最初指导科学文档以来的知识和技术进步的丰富。还将讨论优化优化该新设施可能使科学回报的策略。该研讨会的更广泛影响包括对能源，气候和地球灾害的潜在影响，并与生物学，化学，物理学，多年冻土科学，海洋科学，岩土工程和石油工程有深远的联系。