OCEANOGRAPHY: Mountains in the Sea

海山是海洋研究的主要前沿领域，科学、商业和社会利益攸关方关注海山的勘探、研究和商业用途，并保护其免遭过度开发。科学家对海山的兴趣广泛，从它们作为通往地球的窗口-S地幔到对生物热点生态的理解。有利可图的渔业导致需要保护和了解可持续渔业产量。这本拟议的卷是第一次对海山进行真正的综合考察，地球物理、地球化学、微生物学、海洋生态学、海洋学和渔业界的领导人将介绍目前对海山科学的理解并提出与海山科学有关的新问题。更广泛的影响：《海洋学杂志》是发表这种跨学科论文的绝佳场所，科学家将利用它来了解最新情况，教育工作者也将利用它作为资源。就包括渔业和海洋保护区在内的社会问题而言，这一问题十分及时。

The PI has requested partial funding for a special issues of The Oceanography Society (TOS) Magazine, "Oceanography" - Mountains in the Sea.Seamounts are a major frontier in ocean research with a diverse community of scientific, commercial, and societal stakeholders focusing on their exploration, study, and commercial use, and protection from overexploitation. Scientific interests in seamounts range from their use as windows to Earth?s mantle to the understanding of the ecology of biological hot spots. Profitable fisheries led to the need for protection and understanding of sustainable fisheries yields. This proposed volume is the first truly integrated look at seamounts, where leaders of the geophysics, geochemistry, microbiology, marine ecology, oceanography, and fisheries communities will present the current understanding of and pose new questions related to seamount science. Broader Impacts: Oceanography Magazine is an excellent venue for such an interdisciplinary set of papers and it will be used by scientists to stay current and by educators as a resource. This issue is quite timely with respect to social issues including fisheries and MPAs.