Support for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

项目负责人要求资助国际奥委会项目官员管理国际奥委会海洋碳项目的费用；即国际海洋碳协调项目（IOCCP）和海洋学委员会在海洋酸化和海洋碳封存领域的活动。该提案还为国际奥委会具体活动的博士级专业人员提供支持。海洋学委员会项目官员是海洋学委员会活动与海洋学委员会成员国之间的联络人，也是联合国公约和其他与海洋在全球碳循环中的作用有关的政府间任务的联络人，包括封存和海洋酸化。更广泛的影响：了解碳的作用，它被海洋吸收的情况，它对海洋生态系统及其长期循环的影响，以及人类殖民与其对沿海生态系统影响之间的关系，是基本的社会问题。为了了解不作为的后果和规划具有成本效益的缓解战略，准确的数据和开发可靠的模型至关重要。这些规划活动促进了美国科学家与其国际同行之间的有益交流，往往导致随后扩大联合研究、实地活动和学生交流。

The PI requests funding to cover the costs of the IOC's program officer to manage the ocean carbon programs of the IOC; namely, the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) and IOC's activities in the areas of ocean acidification and ocean carbon sequestration. The proposal also provides support for PhD-level professional's assistance for specific activities of the IOCCP. The IOC program officer serves as a liaison between IOC activities and the IOC Member States, as well as the United Nations conventions and other intergovernmental mandates relevant to the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, including sequestration and ocean acidification.Broader Impacts: Understanding the role of carbon, it's absorption into the ocean, it's consequences for ocean ecosystems and its long-term cycling, as well as the relationships between human colonization and its effect on coastal ecosystems, are fundamental societal concerns. Accurate data and the development of reliable models are essential in order to understand the consequences of inaction and the planning of cost-effective mitigation strategies. These planning activities stimulate beneficial exchanges between U.S. scientists and their international counterparts, often resulting in extended subsequent joint research, field activities and student exchanges.