ARCSS/OAII Biological Initiative in the Arctic: Shelf-Basin Interactions Science Planning Workshop

该奖项旨在支持一个规划研讨会，为北冰洋大陆架的物理和生物地球化学相互作用研究制定一项科学计划。由研讨会参与者制定的陆架盆地相互作用倡议将确定一项研究计划，该计划可用于解决陆架有机衍生物质的命运问题，这些物质在响应全球变化的情况下被运输到深盆地。必须确定有机物质的去向，以便改进估算全球变暖期间与大气交换的二氧化碳量的模型。目前，北冰洋从陆架到海盆的碳交换在很大程度上是未知的，如果要准确估计全球变化对气候敏感的北极地区的影响，就必须对其进行调查。研讨会将为开展一个研究项目制定一个科学计划。

The award is to support a planning workshop to develop a science plan for studies of the physical and biogeochemical interactions of Arctic Ocean shelves. The Shelf Basin Interactions initiative to be developed by the workshop participants will identify a research program that may be conducted to address the question of the fate of organically derived material from the shelf that is transported to the deep basin in response to global change. The fate of the organic material must be determined in order to improve models for estimating the volume of carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere during global warming. At present, the carbon exchange from shelf to basin is largely unknown in the Arctic Ocean and must be investigated if accurate estimates of the impact of global change on the climatically sensitive Arctic region is to be determined. The workshop will produce a science plan for conducting a research program.