U.S. - Norway Workshop on Polar Marine Ecology; Trondheim, Norway; May 12 - 16, 1990

该奖项支持斯克里普斯海洋研究所的Osmund Holm-Hansen博士和其他几位美国海洋科学家参加在挪威特隆赫姆举行的极地海洋生态国际研讨会。该研讨会是专门为积极参与“挪威北极海洋生态研究计划”(PRO MARE)的科学家们设计的。研讨会召集人兼课题研究方案主任是特隆赫姆大学的Egil Sakshaug教授。PRO MARE是由挪威赞助的一项为期五年的巴伦支海生态深入研究，邀请了许多来自其他国家(主要是美国)的研究人员。参加多学科研究巡航。研究的重点是量化影响食物网动态的过程，并评估这些速率如何受到物理、化学和光学参数的影响。讲习班提供了一个机会，讨论并开始将在PROMARE期间获得的广泛数据综合成巴伦支海的生态系统分析，并审查它们与一般极地海洋学的相关性。巴伦支海具有一些海洋学特征，使其成为研究具有世界广泛意义的生物问题的极好的“模型”系统。这些问题包括锋面系统的发展及其对提高初级生产的重要性、受气象条件影响的浮游植物生产力和垂直混合深度之间的关系，以及每年海冰融化的生物学和物理意义。所有六名美国研究人员的旅行都将得到这笔拨款的支持，他们都亲自参与了PROMARE计划；他们将在多学科讨论中做出许多贡献和学习。

This award supports the participation of Dr. Osmund Holm-Hansen of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and several other U.S. marine scientists in an international workshop on Polar Marine Ecology to be held in Trondheim, Norway. The workshop has been designed specifically to bring together the scientists who were actively involved in the "Norwegian Research Program for Marine Arctic Ecology" (PRO MARE). The convener of the workshop and director of the subject research program is Professor Egil Sakshaug of the University of Trondheim. PRO MARE was an intensive five year ecological study of the Barents Sea sponsored by Norway, which invited many investigators from other countries (primarily the U.S.) to participate in the multidisciplinary research cruises. The emphasis of the research was to quantify the processes affecting food web dynamics, and evaluate how these rates are affected by physical, chemical and optical parameters. The workshop offers an opportunity to discuss and begin to synthesize the broad range of data acquired during PRO MARE into an ecosystem analysis of the Barents Sea, as well as examining their relevance to general polar oceanography. The Barents Sea has some oceanographic features which make it an excellent "model" system to study biological problems which have world wide significance. These include the development and importance of frontal systems for enhanced primary production, the relationship between phytoplankton productivity and depth of vertical mixing as influenced by meteorological conditions, and the biological and physical importance of the melting of the annual sea ice. All six U.S. researchers whose travel will be supported by this grant have had much personal involvement with the PRO MARE program; they will have much to contribute and learn during the multidisciplinary discussions.