2014 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference

概述：国家科学基金会的支持将有助于建立一个新的戈登研究会议，题为“海洋全球变化生物学。“智力优点：海洋学和全球环境变化界日益认识到，气候变化对海洋特性的各种影响是多方面的，而且是同时发生的。越来越多的证据表明，我们预测海洋环境这些巨大变化的生物反应的能力取决于对许多不同海洋特性之间相互作用的理解。在过去的十年中，我们的研究界主要集中在个别海洋特性变化的生物效应，特别是pH值（海洋酸化）和温度（海面变暖）。这次新的戈登研究会议将通过采用整体方法来解决两个紧迫的研究问题，将这些不同但相关的研究线索结合在一起：1）海洋生物群将如何应对其环境的多种基本和并发变化？2）它们的累积响应将如何影响海洋生产力、生物多样性和海洋地球化学？更广泛的影响：这个新的戈登研究会议将包括不同的研究团体，从实验学家到建模者，他们都在处理海洋全球变化的生物反应方面。迫切需要超越目前仅关注海洋酸化的做法，全面应对全球人为变化对海洋生物群的各种相互影响，包括变暖、缺氧和分层现象加剧、冰融化、铁和养分供应的变化、辐照度改变、和生物相互作用的变化，如竞争和捕食。海洋全球变化生物学会议将开辟新的沟通途径，在这方面，我们需要与正在处理所有这些相互关联的进程的不同研究界合作，以便制定一系列办法，更系统和更现实地处理不断变化的海洋环境对海洋生物群落和生物资源的各种影响。

Overview: National Science Foundation support will help establish a new Gordon Research Conference titled "Ocean Global Change Biology."Intellectual Merit: There is a growing awareness within the oceanographic and global environmental change communities that the various effects of a changing climate on oceanic properties will be both multi-faceted, and occur simultaneously. A growing body of evidence indicates that our ability to predict the biological responses to these dramatic alterations of the oceanic environment is contingent on understanding the interactive effects between many distinct ocean properties. In the last decade our research community has primarily focused on the biological effects of changes in individual ocean properties, particularly pH (ocean acidification) and temperature (sea surface warming). This new Gordon Research Conference will bring these distinct but related research threads together by adopting a holistic approach to two pressing research questions: 1) How will ocean biota respond to multiple fundamental and concurrent alterations of their environment? and 2) How will their cumulative responses affect ocean productivity, biodiversity and biogeochemistry?Broader Impacts: This new Gordon Research Conference will encompass disparate research communities, from experimentalists to modelers, who are all tackling aspects of biological responses to ocean global change. There is an urgent need to move beyond the current focus on just ocean acidification to address the full range of interactive anthropogenic global change effects on the marine biota, including warming, enhanced hypoxia and stratification, ice melting, changes in iron and nutrient availability, altered irradiance, and shifts in biological interactions such as competition and predation.The Ocean Global Change Biology conference will open new avenues of communication between the diverse research communities who are addressing all of these inter-related processes, in order to devise a range of approaches to more systematically and realistically tackle the full range of impacts of a changing ocean environment on the biological communities and living resources of the oceans.