Advancing US Participation in the International Synoptic Arctic Survey

该项目支持将于2019年5月在美国马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的伍兹霍尔海洋研究所举办的国际研讨会，以继续规划国际综合北极调查(SAS)计划。通过预计于2020年和2021年夏季在北冰洋不同地区进行的一系列协调的国际研究巡航，SAS将提供关于北冰洋生态系统、碳系统和物理环境的重要基线信息，这是理解和预测持续环境变化对北极的影响所必需的。该讲习班将规划协调一致的实地抽样、国际数据共享、包括研究生参与在内的教育、田野季节结束后的数据综合、公共宣传和土著社区的参与。研讨会将赞助一批早期职业科学家参加。美国科学家是SAS规划的关键参与者，并将领导这次研讨会，促进美国在北极科学领域的领导地位。SAS将吸引公众参与北极研究，提高科学素养，并将包括科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究和职业的多个受众(早期职业、教育工作者、代表性不足的群体)。SAS实地工作的成果将提供对北极系统的基本了解，国家和国际政策制定者可以利用这些系统有效地规划和管理北极地区的人类活动，如交通、资源开发，以及潜在的商业捕鱼。对北冰洋生态系统和碳系统、它们对物理驱动因素的依赖以及它们与邻近大陆架和海洋区域的相互作用的了解，仍然不足以预测环境变化可能如何在泛北极范围内改变这些系统。北极天气调查(SAS)是一个国际计划，设想在一到两个夏季在泛北极尺度上开展一项协调的、多国的实地努力，以实现对相互关联的碳-生态系统-物理系统的基本结构和功能的基线理解，从而能够检测到正在进行的和未来的变化。SAS的重点是一个首要问题，“北极海洋系统的现状和正在发生的重大变化是什么？”实地工作将提供在概念上和通过物理-化学-生物耦合建模来预测未来变化轨迹所需的参数。据设想，这项努力或部分努力将在十年尺度上继续下去，以发现变化。这笔赠款提供资源，用于主办一个为期两天的国际开放式规划研讨会，以及将于2019年5月在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔举行的美国SAS科学指导委员会的后续为期一天的规划和写作研讨会。研讨会的总体目标包括促进美国和国际科学家(特别是早期职业科学家)对SAS的兴趣和参与，设计具体的国际实施方案，扩展目前的国际科学和实施计划，讨论计划部署的年份，并吸引感兴趣的美国和国际项目经理参与。仅就美国而言，进一步的目标包括编纂和编写一份美国实施计划，并为将导致美国参与SAS的活动和建议确定战略。研讨会的计划成果和产品包括研讨会报告、管理计划草案、培养下一代科学家的蓝图/计划以及美国的实施计划。支持早期职业科学家参与的资金将由这笔赠款和国际北极科学委员会工作组的赠款提供。这一奖项反映了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 project supports an international workshop to be held at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA in May 2019 to continue planning the international Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) program. Through a series of coordinated international research cruises anticipated for the summers of 2020 and 2021, in different regions of the Arctic Ocean, SAS will provide important baseline information about the Arctic ocean ecosystem, carbon system, and physical environment necessary to understand and predict the impacts of ongoing environmental change on the Arctic. This workshop will plan coordinated field sampling, international data sharing, education including graduate student participation, post field-season data synthesis, public outreach, and involvement of indigenous communities. The workshop will sponsor the participation of a group of early career scientists. US scientists are key participants in the planning of the SAS and will lead this workshop, promoting US leadership in Arctic science. The SAS will engage the general public in Arctic research, increase science literacy and will include multiple audiences (early career, educators, under-represented groups) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) research and careers. The outcomes of the SAS field effort will provide baseline understanding of the Arctic system that can be used by national and international policy makers to effectively plan and manage human activities in the Arctic, such as transportation, resource development, and, potentially, commercial fishing. Understanding of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem and carbon system, their dependencies on physical drivers, and their interactions with neighboring shelves and ocean regions remains inadequate to project how environmental change may modify these systems on a Pan-Arctic scale. The Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) is an international program envisioned to mount a coordinated, multi-nation, field-based effort on a Pan Arctic scale quasi-synoptically over one-two summers to achieve the baseline understanding of the fundamental structure and function of the linked carbon-ecosystem-physical systems that will permit detection of ongoing and future changes. The SAS is focused on a single overarching question, "What are the present state and major ongoing transformations of the Arctic marine system?". The field effort would provide the parameters needed to project future trajectories of change both conceptually and through coupled physical-chemical-biological modeling. It is envisioned that the effort, or parts of the effort, would be continued on decadal scales to detect change. This grant provides resources to host an international, open-to-all 2-day planning workshop and a follow on 1-day planning and writing workshop for the US SAS Scientific Steering Committee to be held in Woods Hole, MA in May 2019. The overall goals of the workshop include promoting interest and participation in the SAS from US and international scientists (especially early career scientists), designing a concrete international implementation that expands on the present international Science and Implementation Plan, discuss the planned years of deployment, and engage interested US and international program managers. For the US only, further goals include codifying and writing a US Implementation Plan and identifying a strategy for activities and proposals that would lead to US participation in the SAS. The planned outcomes and products of the workshop include a workshop report, a draft management plan, a blueprint/plan for nurturing the next generation of scientists, and a US implementation plan. Funding to support the participation of early career scientists would be provided both by this grant and by grants from International Arctic Science Committee Working Groups.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.