The International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces

自1983年以来，关于水面气体转移的国际研讨会大约每五年举行一次，由社区成员在自愿的基础上组织和主办。专题讨论会的目标是了解、量化和参数化管理大气-海洋气体交换的混合和生物地球化学过程，这是研究海洋温室气体通量的核心。尽管全球海洋作为人为二氧化碳的主要汇的作用已经确立，但全球变暖对推动海-气交换的机制的影响是一个主要的不确定性来源。因此，必须提高我们对碳吸收的物理和生物地球化学机制及其对环境条件变化的敏感性的理解。社会各界有机会交流最新的研究成果，将加深我们对空气-水气体交换的认识。该奖项为学生、博士后研究员和早期职业科学家提供旅行支持，以参加2015年5月18日至21日在华盛顿州西雅图举行的第七届水面气体转移国际研讨会。学生、博士后和早期职业科学家的出席将提供一个宝贵的机会，让他们与天然气输送社区的一大批领先科学家见面和互动。社区本身也将受益于参与和吸引下一代科学家的机会。一个专门提供会议记录的在线开放获取服务将被用来广泛和及时地分发所报告的研究。研讨会定期将国际科学和工程界聚集在一起，研究水面气体转移的机制、参数和影响。重点是控制气体通量的物理和生物地球化学过程，其中包括风、波浪破碎和洋流造成的湍流以及天然和人为表面活性剂的影响。这些都是管理热量和动量流动的相同机制，因此，社区中的许多人参加了这次会议，研究发生在海洋表面或附近的各种空气和水侧混合过程。专题讨论会涵盖的专题包括：管理空气-水转移的物理的实地、实验室和模拟调查，全球气候模式中使用的参数的开发和测试，以及全球大气-海洋二氧化碳通量分布的绘图和评估。除这些核心专题外，2015年专题讨论会还将包括二氧化碳吸收增加造成的海洋酸化以及减少海冰面积对极地区域气体转移的影响等专题。将包括来自地球科学(海洋学、大气科学、水文学)、工程学科(土木工程、机械、化学、环境)以及与气水边界运输和转移的所有方面有关的基础科学研究人员的发言。

The International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces has occurred roughly every five years since 1983 and is organized and hosted on a voluntary basis by members of the community. The Symposium objectives to understand, quantify, and parameterize the mixing and biogeochemical processes governing air-sea gas exchange are central to the investigation of ocean fluxes of greenhouse gases. Although the role of the global ocean as a major sink of anthropogenic carbon dioxide is well established, the impact of global warming on the mechanisms that drive air-sea gas exchange is a major source of uncertainty. Thus it is essential to improve our understanding of the physical and biogeochemical mechanisms responsible for carbon uptake and their sensitivity to changing environmental conditions. The opportunity for the community to exchange recent research results will advance our knowledge of air-water gas exchange. This award provides travel support for students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists to attend the 7th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces in Seattle, WA on 18-21 May 2015. Attendance by students, postdocs, and early career scientists will provide a valuable opportunity to meet and interact with a wide range of leading scientists in the gas transfer community. The community itself will also benefit by the opportunity to engage and entrain the next generation of scientists. An on-line open access service that specializes in conference proceedings will be used to provide a wide and timely distribution of the reported research.The Symposium periodically brings together the international scientific and engineering community investigating the mechanisms, parameterizations, and implications of gas transfer at water surfaces. The focus is on the physical and biogeochemical processes that govern gas flux, which include turbulence due to wind, wave breaking, and currents and the effect of natural and anthropogenic surfactants. These are the same mechanisms that govern the flux of heat and momentum and thus the conference is attended by many in the community studying a wide range of air- and water-side mixing processes that occur at or near the ocean surface. The topics covered by the Symposium encompass field, laboratory, and modeling investigations of the physics governing air-water transfer, development and testing of parameterizations for use in global climate models, and mapping and assessment of the global distribution of air-sea Carbon Dioxide fluxes. In addition to these core topics, the 2015 Symposium will include the topics of ocean acidification due to increased Carbon Dioxide uptake and the impact of reducing sea-ice extent on gas transfer in Polar Regions. Presentations by researchers from the geosciences (oceanography, atmospheric sciences, hydrology), engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, chemical, environmental), and the basic sciences related to all aspects of transport to, and transfer across, gas-water boundaries will be included.