NSF Support For the MARCHEM'93 Conference On InstrumentationFor Chemical Oceanography

这是一个讲习班会议，将汇集研究科学家和来自生产仪器的商业公司的代表，试图找到生产用于化学海洋学研究的改进取样和分析设备的机制。会议的结构将被设计成最大限度地促进商业仪器制造商和研究科学家之间的互动，这将与典型的科学会议非常不同。海洋学家将被要求讨论他们在将其他领域的技术发展转化为能够推进海洋化学和化学海洋学知识的有用设备时所面临的问题，而不是对已完成的科学项目的固定描述。同样，将邀请商业代表谈论他们在为海洋学界所代表的相当小的市场生产仪器时所面临的问题。在概述问题和前景的初步介绍之后，大部分时间将用于非正式讨论，希望在此期间，研究科学家和仪器制造企业之间将建立富有成效的联盟。

This is a workshop conference that will bring together research scientists and representatives from commercial firms that produce instruments in an attempts to find mechanisms for producing improved sampling and analytical devices for chemical oceanographic studies. The structure of the meeting will be designed to maximize interaction between commercial instrument builders and research scientists and will be very different from a typical scientific meeting. Instead of set-piece descriptions of completed science projects, the oceanographers will be ask to discuss the problems that they face in turning technological developments in other fields into useful devices that can advance knowledge of marine chemistry and chemical oceanography. Similarly, the business representatives will be invited to talk about the problems that they face in producing instruments for the rather small market that is represented by the oceanographic community. After initial presentations that outline the problems and prospects, a large portions of the time will be devoted to informal discussions during which it is hoped that fruitful alliances between research scientists and instrument building businesses will develop.