Workshop/Symposium on Organism/Sediment Interactions

从潮滩到最深的海沟，海底表面沉积物是强烈的化学、生物和物理活动区域。这种强度主要是由于宏观动物在进食、移动和洞穴灌溉活动中物理混合颗粒并引起间隙水交换。这种活动有效地增加了海底的有效面积，是没有这种动物存在时的数倍。该项目的研究人员将组织一次科学研讨会，回顾“生物-沉积物”关系领域的科学发展状况，并评估未来的研究方向和技术发展。参加者将包括沉积物地球化学家、物理海洋学家、底栖生物学家、海洋工程师、沉积地质学家和其他对了解世界海洋这一科学上最难以捉摸的边界有共同兴趣的人。

Aller OCE-9711198 ABSTRACT From tidal flats to the deepest ocean trenches, the surface sediments of the sea floor are zones of intense chemical, biological, and physical activity. This intensity is due largely by macroscopic animals that physically mix particles and cause interstitial water exchange during their feeding, moving, and burrow irrigation activities. Such activity effectively increases the effective surface of the seafloor several times more that it would be if such animals were not present. The investigator in this project will be organizing a scientific workshop to review the state of scientific development of the field of "organism-sediment" relations and to assess future research directions and technological developments. Participants will include sediment geochemists, physical oceanographers, benthic biologists, ocean engineers, sedimentary geologists and others who share a common interest in understanding this most scientifically elusive boundary of the world ocean.