Expanding Deep-sea Horizons: Scientific Priorities in Abyssal Research

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所（WHOI）将举办一系列三次在线研讨会和一次面对面研讨会，以确定阿尔文号大修后深海的关键科学优先事项和验证需求。在线会议之前，将进行一项广泛分布的调查，以确定研究界对深海中仍在调查的关键区域的意见，以及调查深海需要哪些新的和现有的仪器。在线会议将暂定围绕三个主题组织：深海作业、海沟和转换断层、深海平原和海底山。面对面的会议将汇集来自所有主要学科和不同职业阶段的深海研究人员，将在线会议整合为两份手稿，一份回顾深渊研究状况并确定研究优先事项的社区共识，另一份为DeSSC， NSF和NDSF提供指导，以便在2021年6500艘HOV Alvin完成大检查时规划科学验证考察。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。

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a series of three online workshops and one in person workshop to identify key science priorities at abyssal depths and verification needs when Alvin comes out of overhaul. The online meetings will be preceded by a widely distributed survey to determine the research community's opinions on the key areas that remain under investigated in the abyss and on what new and current instrumentation is needed to investigate the deep ocean.The online meetings will be tentatively organized around three themes: abyssal operations, trenches and transform faults, and abyssal plains and seamounts. An in-person meeting will bring together deep-sea researchers from all major disciplines and at different career stages to synthesize the online meetings into two manuscripts, one that reviews state of research in the abyss and defines the community consensus on research priorities and a second that provides guidance to DeSSC, NSF, and NDSF in planning a science verification expedition when the 6500mrated HOV Alvin comes out of overhaul in 2021.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.