2018 Ocean Global Change Biology GRC/GRS

该奖项提供资金支持第三届和即将举行的会议，2018年海洋全球变化生物学GRC将于2018年7月15日至20日在新罕布什尔州沃特维尔谷的沃特维尔谷会议中心举行。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），以及随后在2016年成功举行的会议，为美国科学界创造了一个前所未有的机会，让他们在戈登会议的隐居氛围中讨论和分享前沿成果。这两次会议都非常成功，出席者非常多，特别是来自早期职业科学家的出席者。2018年海洋全球变化生物学GRC奖将支持美国研究人员参加会议，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加了这些会议，从而为美国海洋科学家创造了在生物海洋学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，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巧和洞察力。这次会议将促进分享来自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。之前的会议强调了该领域令人兴奋的新研究领域，而第三届海洋全球变化生物学GRC将以这些重要的新兴方向为基础，在9个主题的基础上，组成实际的5天会议。其中包括需要关注适应和进化拯救作为对气候变化和多压力源的可能反应，使用基因组学工具和下一代测序来促进进化反应和基因表达模式的研究，在全球变化背景下的表观遗传学会议，需要在环境变化背景下检查物种相互作用，继续探索OA等物理因素的相互作用，沿海水域的温度和脱氧，最后还检查生态系统水平和生物能量学的后果，如果可能的话。在设计新主题时，主席（格雷琴·霍夫曼博士）和副主席（西尼德·柯林斯博士）试图考虑将重点放在这些已确定领域的场地，并报告海洋全球变化生物学这一迅速发展领域的进展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.