Conference: 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing: Understanding the Role of Ocean Mixing Across Scales on Climate, Ecosystems, and Ocean Solutions to Societal Problems

会议：2024 年戈登海洋混合研究会议：了解不同尺度的海洋混合对气候、生态系统和海洋社会问题解决方案的作用

• 批准号: 2344507
• 负责人: Sonya Legg
• 金额: $ 4.48万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2024; Gordon; Research; Ocean

This grant is to support the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Ocean Mixing, as well as the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for early career scientists. These will provide a forum to improve the broader community’s understanding of turbulent mixing in the ocean, including the interactions across scales, and practical applications. Ocean mixing has important impacts in many areas of societal relevance, including climate (e.g. ocean heat and carbon uptake, the meridional overturning circulation), weather (e.g. hurricane intensity), pollution (e.g. marine plastics) and ecosystems (e.g. hypoxia). More recently, as the possible role of the ocean in mitigating climate and ecosystem changes is being explored, changes to mixing resulting from ocean renewable energy and influence of ocean mixing on enhanced ocean carbon dioxide removal must also be considered. The 2024 GRC will make the connection between fundamental studies of ocean mixing and these important impacts and applications. The GRC format is designed to generate vigorous discussion and foster new collaborations, stimulating new understanding. The GRC will strengthen the connection between fundamental studies of ocean mixing and applications to societally relevant problems, with consequent benefits to society. The GRC will also foster an inclusive ocean mixing community by promoting new interactions between people working on different aspects, using different approaches, and at varied career levels, through focused discussions and facilitated informal networking activities. The GRS will enable the full participation of early career scientists in this community, contributing to workforce development. NSF support will help to eliminate financial barriers to participation, by supporting attendance of early career scientists and scientists from historically under-represented groups.Ocean mixing, which can loosely be defined as time-variable motion which increases fluxes of tracers above levels set by molecular diffusion, encompasses a wide variety of processes taking place over a large range of scales, from mesoscale geostrophic eddies to isotropic turbulence. Between these scales many different instability processes excite motions which lead to mixing. All these processes, except for the largest mesoscale eddies, occur on scales too small to explicitly simulate in the ocean component of climate models, requiring parameterizations of their impact on tracer fluxes to accurately capture their effect on the large scale ocean. The development of parameterizations requires experts in different aspects of ocean mixing - observations, theory, process simulation, laboratory experiments, regional and climate modeling - to work together. The GRC stimulates this collaboration between scientists using different approaches and focused on different scales, to better understand ocean mixing. The GRS provides a forum for early career scientists to network with their peers and engage in professional development prior to the main conference.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.

这笔赠款将用于支持 2024 年戈登海洋混合研究会议 (GRC) 以及针对早期职业科学家的戈登研究研讨会 (GRS)，这些活动将为提高更广泛的社区对海洋湍流混合的理解提供一个论坛。包括跨尺度的相互作用和实际应用。海洋混合在许多社会相关领域具有重要影响，包括气候（例如海洋热量和碳吸收、经向翻转环流）、天气（例如海洋）。飓风强度）、污染（例如海洋塑料）和生态系统（例如缺氧）最近，随着人们正在探索海洋在缓解气候和生态系统变化方面的可能作用，海洋可再生能源和海洋混合的影响所导致的混合变化。 2024 年 GRC 还必须考虑将海洋混合的基础研究与这些重要影响和应用联系起来。GRC 的形式旨在引发积极的讨论并促进新的合作，激发新的理解。 GRC 将加强海洋混合的基础研究与社会相关问题的应用之间的联系，从而为社会带来好处。GRC 还将通过促进不同方面、使用不同方法的人们之间的新互动，培育一个包容性的海洋混合社区。在不同的职业层次上，GRS 将使早期职业科学家能够充分参与该社区，为劳动力发展做出贡献，并通过支持参加的人员来帮助消除参与的经济障碍。早期职业科学家和历史上的科学家海洋混合可以粗略地定义为随时间变化的运动，它将示踪剂的通量增加到分子扩散设定的水平之上，涵盖了在大范围内发生的各种过程，从中尺度地转涡流到在这些尺度之间，许多不同的不稳定过程会激发运动，从而导致混合，除了最大的中尺度涡流之外，所有这些过程都发生在太小而无法在模型中明确模拟的尺度上。气候模型的海洋组成部分，需要对其对示踪剂通量的影响进行参数化，以准确捕捉其对大尺度海洋的影响。参数化的发展需要海洋混合不同方面的专家——观测、理论、过程模拟、实验室实验、区域和区域。气候建模 - GRC 促进科学家之间使用不同方法并专注于不同尺度的合作，以更好地了解海洋混合。GRS 为早期职业科学家提供了一个与同行建立联系并参与专业发展的论坛。该奖项体现了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。