Special Issue of Oceanography titled "Paleoceanography - Lessons for a Changing World"

海洋学会(TOS)将出版一期开放获取期刊《海洋学》的特刊，题为《古海洋学--不断变化的世界的教训》。这期特刊将对古海洋学家目前正在研究的地球系统问题以及他们的研究中使用的最新技术提供一个全面、易懂和权威的摘要，其双重目标是促进全球地球和海洋科学界的新合作，并提供最新的、同行评议的综合文献，供世界各地的教育工作者和决策者使用。海洋学编辑Ellen Kappl博士与该领域的四位客座编辑Alan Mix博士、Peggy Delaney博士、Laurie Menviel博士和Katrin Meissner博士将确保拟议的一套同行评议的文章、聚光灯和信息箱将促进这些目标。特刊将提供一个连贯的最新研究结果概要，旨在作为本科生和研究生课堂教学和讨论的基础，并向政策制定者提供信息。该杂志在海洋学界、机构图书馆和政府代表中得到了广泛的发行。《海洋学》的固定订阅者中有一半以上是研究生。为了确保最大的影响，TOS将在海洋学网站上免费提供全期的PDF文件供下载。拟议的《海洋学》特刊将广泛回顾过去十年来古海洋学研究的重大科学成就，并提供前瞻性的研究机会。六个具体专题将用来安排特刊：(1)替代发展、新模型和统计工具；(2)地球生物学，将古气候变化与生物学和进化联系起来；(3)时间尺度上的碳-气候反馈；(4)海洋环流和气候系统动力学；(5)南半球和热带过程在全球气候中的作用；(6)冰-海洋相互作用。这套海洋学文章将提供一个基准，以评估当前和未来气候、碳循环、海平面变化和海洋生态系统的变化。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。

The Oceanography Society (TOS) will publish a special issue of the open-access journal Oceanography with the title "Paleoceanography - Lessons for a Changing World". The special issue will provide a comprehensive, accessible, and authoritative summary of the Earth system problems that paleoceanographers are currently pursuing as well as the state-of-the-art techniques used in their research, with the twin goals of stimulating new collaborations within the global Earth and ocean sciences community and providing up-to-date, peer-reviewed syntheses for use worldwide by educators and decision-makers. Oceanography Editor Dr. Ellen Kappel, along with four guest editors who are experts in the field, Drs. Alan Mix, Peggy Delaney, Laurie Menviel, and Katrin Meissner, will ensure that the proposed set of peer-reviewed articles, spotlights, and information boxes will further these objectives. The special issue will provide a coherent compendium of the most recent results from research intended as a basis for undergraduate and graduate classroom instruction and discussions, as well as to inform policymakers. The journal gets broad distribution within the oceanography community as well as in institutional libraries and with government representatives. More than half the regular subscribers to Oceanography are graduate students. To ensure the greatest impact, TOS will make freely available a PDF of the full issue for download from the Oceanography website.The proposed special issue of Oceanography will broadly review significant scientific accomplishments of paleoceanographic research in the last decade and provide a forward look at research opportunities. Six specific themes will serve to organize the special issue: (1) proxy development, new models and statistical tools; (2) geobiology, linking paleoclimate changes with biology and evolution; (3) carbon-climate feedbacks across time-scales; (4) ocean circulation and climate system dynamics; (5) the role of the Southern Hemisphere and tropical processes in global climate; and (6) ice-ocean interactions. The set of Oceanography articles will provide a benchmark against which current and future changes in climate, the carbon cycle, sea level changes, and marine ecosystems can be assessed.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.