SCOR Workshop: The Biology and Biogeochemistry of Planktonic Foraminifera

浮游有孔虫可以说是地球科学界可获得的近地表古海洋信息的最重要载体。重建过去的气候状态和预测过去和未来在不断变化的海洋条件下有孔虫功能的影响的能力，取决于对它们的生态、生物学、生理学以及它们将地球化学示踪剂纳入方解石外壳的机制的全面了解。在过去的四分之一个世纪里，研究人员发表了关于这类浮游生物的生物学/生态学的实验结果和观察结果，但这些出版物在许多不同的期刊上详细介绍，这些期刊涵盖了海洋地质学、生态学和遗传学等不同领域。这些出版物突出了我们在实验室培养浮游有孔虫的能力方面取得的进展。对活的微生物进行受控的地球化学实验，既校准了现有的古海洋学替代指标，又产生了新的地球化学工具，可以从化石记录中梳理出新的信息。该奖项为学生和年轻研究人员参加浮游有孔虫生物学和生物地球化学研讨会和培训讲习班提供旅行支持。拟议的专题讨论会/讲习班将汇集浮游有孔虫生物学、生态学、地球化学和实验室培养领域的国际专家，讨论新的技术和成果，并培训下一代年轻科学家如何在这些浮游原生生物上生长和进行实验。资金还用于支付讲习班期间的实验室租金。对于美国研究生/博士后群体来说，这是一个独特的机会，他们可以接受培训，了解世界各地不同实验室正在使用/开发的最先进的技术和工具。将通过开放获取网站和开放源码电子书向所有与会者和广大社区提供研讨会讲座和综合材料的录像。专题讨论会/讲习班还将提供一个论坛，传播今后开展浮游有孔虫实验所需的专门技术。专题讨论会/讲习班将于2015年夏季与海洋研究科学委员会(SCOR)工作组(138)联合举行。

Planktonic foraminifera are arguably the most important carriers of near surface paleoceanographic information available to the geoscience community. The ability to reconstruct past climate states and to predict the impact of the functioning of foraminifera under changing oceanic conditions in the past and future depends on a complete understanding of their ecology, biology, physiology and the mechanisms by which they incorporate geochemical tracers into their calcite shells. In the last quarter century, researchers have published experimental results as well as observations on the biology/ecology of this group of planktonic organisms but the publications are detailed in many different journals that encompass fields as diverse as Marine Geology, Ecology and Genetics. These publications highlight the advances made in our ability to grow planktonic foraminifera in the laboratory. Conducting controlled geochemical experiments on living micro-organisms has both calibrated existing paleoceanographic proxies and produced new geochemical tools that can tease out novel information from the fossil record.This award provides travel support for students and young researchers to participate in a symposium and training workshop on the biology and biogeochemistry of planktonic foraminifera. The proposed symposium/workshop will bring together international specialists in the fields of planktonic foraminifera biology, ecology, geochemistry and laboratory culturing to discuss new techniques and results and train the next generation of young scientists how to grow and conduct experiments on these planktonic protists. Funds also cover the costs of laboratory rental for the duration of the workshop. This is a unique opportunity for the U.S. graduate/postdoc community to get trained in the state of the art techniques and tools that are being used/developed in different laboratories around the world. Video-recorded symposium lectures and synthesis materials will be made available to all participants and the community at large through an open access web site and open source e-book. The symposium/workshop will also provide a forum to disseminate the specialized techniques needed to conduct future experiments on planktonic foraminifera. The symposium/workshop will be held in conjunction with a Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group (138) in the summer of 2015.