2018 Ocean Global Change Biology GRC/GRS

该奖项为即将到来的第三届海洋全球变化生物学会议提供资金，该会议将于2018年7月15日至20日在华盛顿州沃特维尔山谷的沃特维尔山谷会议中心举行。海洋中的全球变化生物学研究已成为海洋科学的一个主要研究领域。这一研究领域是多学科的，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。这个研究界以前曾在会议上面临挑战，以分享在这一快速发展的研究领域取得的数据和进展。然而，2014年7月关于海洋全球变化生物学的首届戈登研究会议(GRC)，以及随后在2016年成功举行的一次会议，为美国科学界创造了一个前所未有的机会，可以在戈登会议的隐居氛围中讨论和分享尖端成果。这两次会议都非常成功，都有出色的与会者，特别是职业生涯早期的科学家。2018年全球海洋变化生物学全球研究委员会的这一奖项将支持美国研究人员参加一个可以交流思想、改进和推进研究方向的会议。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的生物海洋学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上，拟议的项目将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的跨学科培训。在为期5天的会议期间，研讨会活动将提高美国科学家的科学交流技能和洞察力。这次会议将促进海洋全球变化生物学研究人员分享新成果，往往是未发表的材料。以前的会议突出了该领域令人振奋的新研究领域，关于海洋全球变化生物学的第三届全球海洋变化生物学全球研究中心将以这些重要的新兴方向为基础，以9个主题为基础，组成实际为期5天的会议。其中包括：需要把重点放在适应和进化拯救上，以此作为对气候变化和多重应激源的可能反应；利用基因组学工具和下一代测序来促进研究进化反应和基因表达模式；举办一次关于全球变化背景下的表观遗传学的会议；有必要在环境变化的背景下审查物种之间的相互作用；继续探讨气候变化、温度和沿海水域的除氧等物理因素之间的相互作用；最后，尽可能还审查生态系统一级和生物能量学的影响。在设计新的主题时，主席(Gretchen Hofmann博士)和副主席(Sinead Collins博士)试图考虑一个将重点放在这些确定的领域的地点，并报告在这一快速发展的海洋全球变化生物学领域的进展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides funding to support the third and upcoming conference, the 2018 GRC on Ocean Global Change Biology to be held at the Waterville Valley Conference Center in Waterville Valley, NH on July 15-20, 2018. 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, followed by a successful meeting in 2016, created an unprecedented opportunity for the U.S. science community to discuss and share cutting edge results in the retreat-like atmosphere of a Gordon Conference. Both meetings were very successful, with excellent attendance, particularly from early career scientists. This award for the 2018 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 area in biological oceanography. During the GRC itself and in the Gordon Research Seminar preceding it, the proposed project will support interdisciplinary training for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The seminar activities will advance the science communication skills and insights of the U.S. scientists during the 5-day meeting.This meeting will facilitate the sharing of new results, often times unpublished material, from investigators in Ocean Global Change Biology. Previous conferences served to highlight exciting new areas of research in the field and the third 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 and gene expression patterns, a session on epigenetics in a global change context, 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 and bioenergetics consequences, where possible. In designing the new themes, the Chair (Dr. Gretchen Hofmann) and Vice Chair (Dr. Sinead Collins) 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.