A Proposal for a Workshop on the Roles of Marine Laboratories in the Implementation of the Nation's Emerging Priorities for Research and Monitoring in the Coastal Zone

9505729马龙基金为一个多机构讲习班提供经费，讨论海洋实验室在执行沿海地区研究和监测优先事项方面的作用。该研讨会由美国国家科学基金会、美国国家海洋和大气管理局沿海海洋项目和美国环保署研究与发展办公室赞助。讲习班的目标是确定海洋实验室能够最好地满足国家在沿海监测和研究方面需要的机制。海洋实验室的潜在作用将根据几个感兴趣的领域进行讨论：1)超越生物组织尺度的多学科研究，从分子到生物体和生态系统；2)跨学科研究，超越了从流域到沿海海洋构成陆海界面的生态系统的传统界限；3)具有成本效益的监测网络，不仅将记录环境变化和发现趋势，而且还将为假设检验提供框架，以揭示这种趋势的原因和后果；4)研究界、联邦和州机构以及公众之间的信息流和联络；5)区域分布式数据和信息管理系统，用于科学分析和制定海岸带管理综合战略。该讲习班将在国家海洋实验室协会（NAML）的主持下组织。

9505729 Malone Funds are provided for a multi-institutional workshop to discuss the roles of marine laboratories in implementing priorities for research and monitoring in the coastal zone. The workshop is being sponsored by NSF, NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, and EPA Office of Research and Development. The workshop's goal is to identify mechanisms by which marine laboratories can best address national needs in coastal monitoring and research. The potential role(s) of marine laboratories will be discussed in light of several areas of interest: 1) multidisciplinary research that transcends scales of biological organization from molecules to organisms and ecosystems; 2) multidisciplinary research that transcends the traditional boundaries of ecosystems constituting the land-sea interface from drainage basin to coastal ocean; 3) cost-effective monitoring networks that will not only document environmental variability and detect trends but will also provide a framework for hypothesis testing to reveal causes and consequences of such trends; 4) information flow and liaison between the research community, federal and state agencies, and the public; and 5) regional distributed data and information management systems for scientific analysis and the formulation of integrated strategies for coastal zone management. The workshop is to organized under the auspices of the National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML).