2018 Ocean Global Change Biology GRC/GRS

该奖项为第三届也是即将举行的会议提供资金，即2018年GRC海洋全球变化生物学会议，该会议将于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研究已成为海洋科学的一个主要重点领域。这一研究领域是多学科的，包括生物、化学和物理海洋学，沿着海洋生态学和进化生物学。这个研究社区以前在会议上分享数据和在这个快速发展的研究领域取得的进展方面受到了挑战。然而，首届戈登研究会议（GRC）海洋全球变化生物学在2014年7月，随后在2016年的一次成功的会议，创造了一个前所未有的机会，为美国科学界讨论和分享前沿成果在戈登会议的务虚会般的气氛。这两次会议都非常成功，与会者特别是早期职业科学家踊跃出席。2018年GRC海洋全球变化生物学奖将支持美国研究人员参加一次会议，在那里可以交流想法，改进和推进研究方向。这些会议有来自其他国家的科学家参加，从而为美国海洋科学家在生物海洋学这一全球重要领域开展国际合作创造了机会。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能和见解。这次会议将促进分享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。以前的会议突出了该领域令人兴奋的新研究领域，第三届海洋全球变化生物学研讨会将在9个主题中建立这些重要的新兴方向，这些主题包括实际的5天会议。其中包括需要把重点放在适应和进化拯救上，作为对气候变化和多重压力的可能反应，使用基因组学工具和下一代测序来促进对进化反应和基因表达模式的研究，关于全球变化背景下的表观遗传学的会议，需要在环境变化的背景下研究物种之间的相互作用，继续探索有机酸、温度和沿海沃茨脱氧等物理因素之间的相互作用，并在可能的情况下，最后审查生态系统一级和生物能量学后果。在设计新的主题时，主席（Gretchen Hofmann博士）和副主席（Sinead柯林斯博士）已试图考虑一个地点，将重点放在这些确定的领域，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

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.