2016 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference

海洋全球变化生物学的研究已成为海洋科学关注的一个主要领域。这一领域的研究是多学科的，包括生物、化学和物理海洋学，以及海洋生态学和进化生物学。在这个快速发展的研究领域，这个研究团体之前在分享数据和进展的会议上受到了挑战。然而，2014年7月举行的首届海洋全球变化生物学戈登研究会议（GRC）为美国科学界提供了一个机会，让他们在戈登会议的幽静氛围中讨论和分享前沿成果。会议非常成功，出席的人非常多，特别是来自早期职业科学家。本提案是为2016年7月17日至22日在新罕布什尔州沃特维尔谷会议中心举行的第二届也是即将到来的2016年海洋全球变化GRC筹款申请。2016年海洋全球变化生物学GRC的资助将支持美国研究人员参加一个会议，在那里可以交流思想，改进和推进研究方向。来自其他国家的科学家高度参与了这些会议，从而为美国海洋科学家创造了在这一全球重要领域开展国际合作的机会。在GRC本身和之前的戈登研究研讨会期间，奖励将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的跨学科培训。该项目将通过一个特别的主题来提高美国科学家的科学传播技巧和见解，该主题旨在解决向决策者和管理者传达科学研究成果的问题。这次会议将促进海洋全球变化生物学研究人员的新成果（通常是未发表的材料）的分享。第一次会议旨在突出该领域令人兴奋的新研究领域，第二次海洋全球变化生物学GRC将在这些重要的新兴方向上建立9个主题，包括实际的5天会议。其中包括需要关注适应和进化救援，作为对气候变化和多压力源的可能响应；使用基因组学工具和下一代测序来促进进化响应的研究；需要检查环境变化背景下的物种相互作用；需要继续探索OA、温度和沿海水域脱氧等物理因素的相互作用；最后，在可能的情况下，还要检查生态系统层面的后果。值得注意的是，在审查第一次GRC时，与会者注意到有一个关于科学传播的会议。将包括这样一个会议，讨论如何使决策者和管理人员更容易获得海洋全球变化研究的结果。在设计新主题时，主席（菲利普·博伊德博士）和副主席（格雷琴·霍夫曼博士）试图考虑一个将重点放在这些确定领域的场地，并报告海洋全球变化生物学这一迅速发展领域的进展。

The study of global change biology in the oceans has emerged as a major area of focus for marine sciences. This area of research is multidisciplinary, encompassing biological, chemical and physical oceanography, along with marine ecology and evolutionary biology. This research community has previously been challenged in meeting to share data and advances made in this rapidly developing field of study. However, the inaugural Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Ocean Global Change Biology in July 2014 created an opportunity for the U.S. science community to discussion and share cutting edge results in the retreat-like atmosphere of a Gordon Conference. The meeting was very successful, with excellent attendance, particularly from early career scientists. This proposal is a request for funding to support the second and upcoming 2016 GRC on Ocean Global Change on to be held at the Waterville Valley Conference Center in Waterville Valley, NH on July 17-22, 2016. Funding to the 2016 GRC on Ocean Global Change Biology will support U.S. researchers in attending a meeting where ideas can be exchanged and research directions can be improved and advanced. These meetings are highly attended by scientists from other countries, thus creating an opportunity for U.S. marine scientists to develop international collaborations in this globally important field. During the GRC itself and in the Gordon Research Seminar preceding it, awards will support interdisciplinary training for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The project will advance the science communication skills and insights of the U.S. scientists via a special theme designed to address communicating the results of scientific research to policymakers and managersThis meeting will facilitate the sharing of new results, often times unpublished material, from investigators in Ocean Global Change Biology. The fist meeting served to highlight exciting new areas of research in the field and the second GRC on Ocean Global Change Biology will build upon these important emerging directions in 9 themes that comprise the actual 5-day conference. These include the need to focus on adaptation and evolutionary rescue as a possible response to climate change and multistressors, the use of genomics tools and next generation sequencing to facilitate the study of evolutionary response, the need to examine species interactions in the context of environmental change, to continue to explore the interaction of physical factors such as OA, temperature and deoxygenation of coastal waters, and finally to also examine ecosystem-level consequences where possible. Notably, in reviews of the first GRC, conferees noted there a session on science communication. Such a session will be included to discuss how the results of research in ocean global change research can be made more accessible to policymakers and managers. In designing the new themes, the Chair (Dr. Philip Boyd) and Vice Chair (Dr. Gretchen Hofmann) have attempted to take into consideration a venue that will focus on these identified areas, and to also report on progress in this rapidly advancing field of ocean global change biology..