Conference: 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing: Understanding the Role of Ocean Mixing Across Scales on Climate, Ecosystems, and Ocean Solutions to Societal Problems

会议：2024 年戈登海洋混合研究会议：了解不同尺度的海洋混合对气候、生态系统和海洋社会问题解决方案的作用

• 批准号: 2344507
• 负责人: Sonya Legg
• 金额: $ 4.48万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2024; Gordon; Research; Ocean

This grant is to support the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Ocean Mixing, as well as the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for early career scientists. These will provide a forum to improve the broader community’s understanding of turbulent mixing in the ocean, including the interactions across scales, and practical applications. Ocean mixing has important impacts in many areas of societal relevance, including climate (e.g. ocean heat and carbon uptake, the meridional overturning circulation), weather (e.g. hurricane intensity), pollution (e.g. marine plastics) and ecosystems (e.g. hypoxia). More recently, as the possible role of the ocean in mitigating climate and ecosystem changes is being explored, changes to mixing resulting from ocean renewable energy and influence of ocean mixing on enhanced ocean carbon dioxide removal must also be considered. The 2024 GRC will make the connection between fundamental studies of ocean mixing and these important impacts and applications. The GRC format is designed to generate vigorous discussion and foster new collaborations, stimulating new understanding. The GRC will strengthen the connection between fundamental studies of ocean mixing and applications to societally relevant problems, with consequent benefits to society. The GRC will also foster an inclusive ocean mixing community by promoting new interactions between people working on different aspects, using different approaches, and at varied career levels, through focused discussions and facilitated informal networking activities. The GRS will enable the full participation of early career scientists in this community, contributing to workforce development. NSF support will help to eliminate financial barriers to participation, by supporting attendance of early career scientists and scientists from historically under-represented groups.Ocean mixing, which can loosely be defined as time-variable motion which increases fluxes of tracers above levels set by molecular diffusion, encompasses a wide variety of processes taking place over a large range of scales, from mesoscale geostrophic eddies to isotropic turbulence. Between these scales many different instability processes excite motions which lead to mixing. All these processes, except for the largest mesoscale eddies, occur on scales too small to explicitly simulate in the ocean component of climate models, requiring parameterizations of their impact on tracer fluxes to accurately capture their effect on the large scale ocean. The development of parameterizations requires experts in different aspects of ocean mixing - observations, theory, process simulation, laboratory experiments, regional and climate modeling - to work together. The GRC stimulates this collaboration between scientists using different approaches and focused on different scales, to better understand ocean mixing. The GRS provides a forum for early career scientists to network with their peers and engage in professional development prior to the main conference.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.

该赠款是为了支持2024年戈登研究会议（GRC），以及有关早期职业科学家的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）。这些将提供一个论坛，以提高社区对海洋动荡混合的理解，包括跨尺度的相互作用以及实际应用。海洋混合在社会相关性的许多领域都具有重要影响，包括气候（例如海洋热量和碳吸收，子午倾覆循环），天气（例如飓风强度），污染（例如，海洋塑料）和生态系统（例如，低氧）。最近，由于正在探索海洋在缓解气候和生态系统变化中的可能作用，因此还必须考虑由海洋可再生能源和海洋混合影响对增强的海洋二氧化碳去除的混合变化。 2024 GRC将在海洋混合的基本研究与这些重要影响和应用之间建立联系。 GRC格式旨在引起激烈的讨论并促进新的合作，从而刺激新的理解。 GRC将加强海洋混合的基本研究与与社会相关问题的应用之间的联系，从而对社会带来好处。 GRC还将通过通过不同的方法和不同的职业水平，通过重点讨论和支持的非正式网络活动来促进从事不同方面的人们之间的新互动来促进一个包容性的海洋混合社区。 GRS将使早期职业科学家在这个社区的全面参与，从而有助于劳动力发展。 NSF的支持将通过支持早期职业科学家和从历史上代表性不足的群体中的出勤率来消除参与的财务障碍。EceanCompings.ecean Comping可以松散地定义为可时变量的运动，从而使示踪剂的磁带的磁带增加到超过分子差异的水平以上，包括各种流程，包括各种各样的范围，从各种各样的范围内，来自Morsers greations coppass coppass coppasse grops salters greations cops coppassection coppass coppassect coppasse scompass coppass cops cops coppass cops coppass coppass coppassect s。各向同性湍流。在这些量表之间，许多不同的不稳定性过程激发了导致混合的运动。除了最大的中尺度涡流外，所有这些过程都发生在太小的尺度上，无法在气候模型的海洋组成部分中明确模拟，这需要它们对示踪剂通量的影响的参数，以准确地捕获其对大型海洋的影响。参数的开发要求专家在海洋混合的不同方面 - 观测，理论，过程模拟，实验室实验，区域和气候建模 - 一起工作。 GRC使用不同的方法刺激科学家之间的这种合作，并专注于不同的尺度，以更好地了解海洋混合。 GRS为早期职业科学家提供了一个论坛，以便在主要会议之前与同龄人建立联系并从事专业发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。