Travel: Symposium on Advances in Ocean Observation

该项目支持一个新形式的专题讨论会，汇集了一个小型（约30人）但高度积极的专家组，专注于海洋观测中更智能的方法。研讨会的主要目的是利用融合科学促进海洋科学家和技术人员之间的积极讨论，并产生可操作的想法，重点是将计算和机器人智能带入海洋观测。这将在联合国海洋十年（UN 2021）期间，在各级（国家，国际）推进观测方法的构思。这将有望帮助海洋科学家了解和利用机器人技术和计算机科学的进步，并帮助技术人员推进他们的科学和解决问题的方法，以产生真实的社会影响，最终目标是促进海洋科学的发展和我们对世界海洋的了解。研讨会将汇集来自不同背景和职业阶段的研究人员，他们可能没有任何理由（或动机）在孤立的环境之外进行互动。换句话说，这种努力是一种说服跨学科和地理界限合作的形式。虽然后者仍然是一个挑战，但预计在联合国十年期间，美国和欧洲的机构将提供跨国合作的方法。组织者希望与所有与会者共同撰写一份手稿，将研讨会上讨论的想法和概念介绍给更大的海洋科学，机器人和计算机科学界。海洋科学是一个高度跨学科的领域。然而，它在该领域的实践，特别是在观测方法的背景下，继续受到观测的空间和时间尺度与动态和恶劣环境中的过程之间的不匹配的阻碍。地面现实、计算和机器人科学的进步以及海洋科学的实际需求之间的脱节是显而易见的，也是亚速尔群岛专题讨论会旨在解决的核心问题。因此，本次会议的主要重点是融合科学，以解决科学需求和现有技术之间的差距。由于海洋科学是一个广阔的领域，本次研讨会的核心领域是上层水体的地球化学和物理。会议将是高度跨学科的，来自欧洲和美国的顶尖专家。会议将采用一种非典型的互动方式，通过更多的探索性参与来增强。组织者打算使用认知科学社区使用的高度参与性方法。此外，在这个海洋十年中，它为科学家和技术人员提供了一个明确的焦点，使他们能够协调一致地共同努力，在观测方法方面取得具体进展。这在很大程度上是可行的，因为计算和机器人科学的成熟和进步，利用了美国和欧洲数十年的资金。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This project supports a symposium with a novel format which brings together a small (~30 people) yet highly motivated group of experts focusing on smarter methods in ocean observation. The primary aim of the symposium is using convergence science to catalyze active discussion between marine scientists and technologists and generate actionable ideas with a central focus on bringing computational and robotic intelligence to ocean observation. This will make connections for ideation to advance observation methods at various levels (national, international), during this UN Decade of the Oceans (UN 2021). This will hopefully help marine scientists understand and leverage advances in robotics and computer science and help technologists advance their science and problem solving methods to have a real societal impact with the ultimate goal of advancing the state of ocean science and our understanding of the world’s ocean. The symposium will bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and career stages, who might not have any reason (or incentive) to interact outside their siloed environments. In other words, this effort is a form of persuasion to collaborate across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. While the latter continues to be a challenge, the anticipation is that methods in trans-national collaboration will be provided by agencies in the US and Europe during this UN Decade. The organizers expect to produce a manuscript with all participants as co-authors to expose the ideas and concepts discussed at the symposium to the larger ocean science, robotics and computer science communities.Ocean science is a highly inter-disciplinary field. Yet it’s practice in the field, especially in the context of observational methods, continue to be hobbled by a mismatch between the spatial and temporal scales of observation and processes in a dynamic and harsh environment. The disconnect between the reality on the ground, the advances that have been made in the computational and robotic sciences, and the actual needs in ocean science are stark and at the heart of what the Azores Symposium aims to address. The principal focus of this meeting therefore is convergence science to address the gaps between the science needs and the available technologies. Since ocean science is a vast field, the core domain this symposium will focus on, is the upper water-column biogeochemistry and physics. The meeting will be highly transdisciplinary with leading experts from across Europe and the US. The meeting will have an atypical method of interaction that is augmented by more probing participation. The organizers intend to use a highly participatory approach used by the Cognitive Science community. Also, in this Decade of the Ocean, it provides a distinct foci for scientists and technologists to make a coherent thrust in working together to make concrete progress in observational methods. In large part this is doable, because of the maturity and advances in computational and robotic sciences, which leverage decades of funding in the US and Europe.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.