Expanding Deep-sea Horizons: Scientific Priorities in Abyssal Research

扩大深海视野：深海研究的科学优先事项

• 批准号: 2009117
• 负责人: Samuel Soule
• 金额: $ 5.78万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2009117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Deep; sea; Horizons; Scientific

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a series of three online workshops and one in person workshop to identify key science priorities at abyssal depths and verification needs when Alvin comes out of overhaul. The online meetings will be preceded by a widely distributed survey to determine the research community's opinions on the key areas that remain under investigated in the abyss and on what new and current instrumentation is needed to investigate the deep ocean.The online meetings will be tentatively organized around three themes: abyssal operations, trenches and transform faults, and abyssal plains and seamounts. An in-person meeting will bring together deep-sea researchers from all major disciplines and at different career stages to synthesize the online meetings into two manuscripts, one that reviews state of research in the abyss and defines the community consensus on research priorities and a second that provides guidance to DeSSC, NSF, and NDSF in planning a science verification expedition when the 6500mrated HOV Alvin comes out of overhaul in 2021.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所 (WHOI) 将举办一系列三场在线研讨会和一场面对面研讨会，以确定深海深度的关键科学优先事项以及阿尔文检修结束后的验证需求。在线会议之前将进行广泛分布的调查，以确定研究界对深渊中仍在研究的关键领域以及调查深海需要哪些新的和当前的仪器的看法。在线会议将暂定组织围绕三个主题：深海作业、海沟和转换断层、深海平原和海山。现场会议将汇集来自所有主要学科和不同职业阶段的深海研究人员，将在线会议综合成两份手稿，一份回顾深渊研究状况并确定社区对研究重点的共识，另一份手稿该奖项为 DeSSC、NSF 和 NDSF 规划 6500 米额定 HOV Alvin 于 2021 年完成大修后的科学验证探险提供指导。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。