Championing BioCarbon in the N Atlantic

海洋中的生物系统在调节大气中二氧化碳的浓度方面发挥着关键作用，因此在调节我们的气候方面发挥着关键作用，与英国紧邻的北大西洋是发生这种情况的关键地点。这是一个非常热门和重要的研究问题，许多国家都有兴趣进行研究。联合王国政府已决定委托一个大型研究计划，更详细地研究这些过程，特别是它们如何应对气候变化。该计划分为三个阶段，首先是确定关键的知识差距，然后在海上进行观测，最后利用这些新数据改进我们用于预测未来气候演变的模型。该方案正在寻找一个方案冠军，以领导整个方案中的项目的整合，我正在申请执行这项任务。我花了很长时间在英国国家海洋学中心从事这一研究领域的工作，包括在海上进行相关测量和管理大量人员以提供类似项目。最近，我一直在挪威的一个国际中心工作，该中心专注于测量海洋碳吸收并支持全球社区开展这项工作。我在挪威的主要工作是在所有正在进行的各种方案之间建立桥梁，包括在联合国海洋十年，欧盟联合方案编制倡议和加拿大大型倡议下开展的工作，以测量北大西洋海洋碳吸收以及生物过程在推动这一进程中的作用。我将把所有这些经验用于支持这一计划，包括支持计划咨询小组，制定计划的船期表，领导规划研讨会，管理计划的沟通战略以及数据管理战略。通过这些行动，我的目标是帮助英国海洋科学界完成一项具有里程碑意义的工作，与世界其他地区良好地对接，帮助我们共同管理气候变化对地球的影响。

Biological systems in the ocean play a key role in regulating the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and hence in regulating our climate, with the North Atlantic Ocean immediately adjacent to the UK being a key site where this happens. This is a very topical and important research problem which many countries are interested in working on. The UK Government has decided to commission a large research programme to study these processes in more detail, and in particular how they might respond to climate change. The programme is structured in three phases, firstly around identifying key knowledge gaps, then making observations at sea and finally using these new data to improve the models we use to predict the future evolution of climate. The Programme is seeking a programme champion to lead the integration of the projects within the overall programme and I am applying to deliver this task. I spent a long time in the UK working at the National Oceanography Centre on this research area, including lots of time at sea making relevant measurements and managing large groups of people to deliver similar projects. More recently I have been working in Norway for an International Centre focussed on measuring ocean C uptake and supporting the Global Community in this work. My major effort in Norway has been to build bridges between all the various programmes that are spinning up including work occurring under the UN Decade of the Oceans, the EU Joint programming Initiative, and a large Canadian initiative to measure ocean carbon uptake in the N Atlantic and the role of biological processes in driving this. I will bring all this experience to bear in supporting this programme including supporting the programme advisory group, building the ship schedule for the programme, leading planning workshops and managing the communication strategy for the programme as well as the data management strategy. Via these actions I aim to help the UK Marine Science community deliver a landmark piece of work that is well interfaced with the rest of the world and which helps us collectively to manage the impacts of climate change on our planet.