Conference: CET: Accelerating integrated Seabed Characterization for clean ENergy Transition (ASCENT)

本次会议是根据NSF DCL 23-108关于清洁能源主题会议的要求召开的。该项目旨在通过一个由地球科学、土木工程和数据科学专家组成的联合会议，通过合作、国际、多学科的努力，推进海底评估方法。会议将寻求机会，通过全球海上可再生能源的发展来缓解供应链限制，实现净零碳排放。会议将促进开发商、顾问和承包商之间的讨论，作为综合海底特征的先锋，以基础科学为基础实现变革性创新，重点关注美国的紧迫区域挑战，同时确保更广泛的知识进步适用于全球。会议活动将激发关于大规模海底特征、降低能源成本、减少原材料生产和消费以及改善海洋空间公平的新想法。考虑到清洁能源转型的规模，传统的耗时和消耗资源的确定性过程不适合用于海底表征。在不进一步加剧气候变化和危害海洋野生动物和海洋环境的情况下，扩大这种转变需要一种新的方法来收集、测试、分析和解释海底土壤数据。未来十年，通过传统手段减少海底的不确定性将需要前所未有的地球物理和岩土技术数据量，其规模远远超出现有全球船队的能力。通过整合数据科学、地球科学和工程学，智能海底表征具有重大的创新机会，具有巨大的变革潜力，可以开发出更智能的地点表征方法。本次会议将在实现净零排放的道路上规划一条智能、能源驱动的道路，影响工程实践和有意义的数据科学整合的指导方针，并在海洋空间公平方面取得切实的积极成果。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。

This conference is in response to NSF DCL 23-108 on Conferences on Clean Energy Topics. This project aims to advance seabed assessment methods through a collaborative, international, multidisciplinary effort comprising a joint conference of experts in geosciences, civil engineering, and data science. The conference will seek to identify opportunities to mitigate supply chain constraints to achieve net zero carbon through global offshore renewables development. The conference will foster discussion among developers, consultants and contractors working as the vanguard of integrated seabed characterization to effect transformative innovation based on fundamental science, focusing on urgent regional challenges in the US while ensuring that broader knowledge advancements are globally applicable. The conference activities will spur new ideas for seabed characterization on a mass scale, lowering energy costs, reducing production and consumption of raw materials, and improving ocean space equity.The conventional time and resource-consuming deterministic process for seabed characterization is not fit for purpose given the scale of the clean energy transition. Scaling up such a transition without further contribution to climate change and harm to marine wildlife and the ocean environment requires a new approach to collection, testing, analysis, and interpretation of seabed soil data. Reducing seabed uncertainty through traditional means over the next decade will require an unprecedented volume of geophysical and geotechnical data, the sheer scale of which is well beyond the capacity of the existing global vessel fleet. Significant innovation opportunities lie with smart seabed characterization through integration of data science, geoscience and engineering, with a high potential for transformative change to develop more intelligent site characterization methods. This conference will chart a smart, energy-driven course on a pathway to net zero, influence guidelines in engineering practice and meaningful data science integration, and deliver tangible positive outcomes in ocean space equity.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.