ARCSS/OAII Biological Initiative in the Arctic: Shelf-Basin Interactions Science Planning Workshop

该奖项旨在支持一个规划讲习班，以制定研究北冰洋大陆架物理和地球化学相互作用的科学计划。 研讨会与会者将制定的陆架盆地相互作用倡议将确定一个研究方案，以解决因全球变化而从陆架转移到深海盆地的有机物质的命运问题。必须确定有机物质的命运，以改进估算全球变暖期间二氧化碳与大气交换量的模型。 目前，北冰洋大陆架与海盆之间的碳交换基本上是未知的，如果要准确估计全球变化对气候敏感的北极地区的影响，就必须进行调查。 研讨会将为开展研究项目制定科学计划。

The award is to support a planning workshop to develop a science plan for studies of the physical and biogeochemical interactions of Arctic Ocean shelves. The Shelf Basin Interactions initiative to be developed by the workshop participants will identify a research program that may be conducted to address the question of the fate of organically derived material from the shelf that is transported to the deep basin in response to global change. The fate of the organic material must be determined in order to improve models for estimating the volume of carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere during global warming. At present, the carbon exchange from shelf to basin is largely unknown in the Arctic Ocean and must be investigated if accurate estimates of the impact of global change on the climatically sensitive Arctic region is to be determined. The workshop will produce a science plan for conducting a research program.