2016 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference

海洋中的全球变化生物学研究已成为海洋科学的一个主要研究领域。这一研究领域是多学科的，包括生物、化学和物理海洋学，以及海洋生态学和进化生物学。这个研究界以前曾在会议上面临挑战，以分享在这一快速发展的研究领域取得的数据和进展。然而，2014年7月关于海洋全球变化生物学的首届戈登研究会议(GRC)为美国科学界创造了一个机会，让他们在戈登会议的幽静气氛中讨论和分享尖端成果。这次会议非常成功，出席者非常出色，特别是职业生涯早期的科学家。这项提案是一项资金申请，以支持即将于2016年7月17日至22日在华盛顿州沃特维尔山谷的沃特维尔山谷会议中心举行的第二届也是即将举行的关于海洋全球变化的GRC。为2016年全球海洋变化生物学全球研究中心提供的资金将支持美国研究人员参加一个可以交流想法、改进和推进研究方向的会议。来自其他国家的科学家高度参与了这些会议，从而为美国海洋科学家在这一全球重要领域开展国际合作创造了机会。在GRC本身和之前的戈登研究研讨会上，奖项将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的跨学科培训。该项目将通过一个特别主题来促进美国科学家的科学交流技能和洞察力，该主题旨在向政策制定者和管理者传达科学研究结果。本次会议将促进海洋全球变化生物学研究人员分享新成果，这些成果往往是未发表的材料。第一次会议突出了该领域令人振奋的新研究领域，第二届全球海洋变化生物学全球研究中心将以这些重要的新兴方向为基础，以9个主题为基础，组成实际为期5天的会议。其中包括需要把重点放在适应和进化拯救上，以此作为对气候变化和多重应激源的可能反应，利用基因组学工具和下一代测序来促进对进化反应的研究，需要在环境变化的背景下审查物种之间的相互作用，继续探索自然因素的相互作用，例如沿海水域的开放式气候变化、温度和脱氧作用，最后还需要在可能的情况下审查生态系统一级的后果。值得注意的是，在对第一届GRC的回顾中，与会者注意到有一次关于科学交流的会议。将包括这样一次会议，讨论如何使政策制定者和管理人员更容易获得海洋全球变化研究的研究成果。在设计新的主题时，主席(菲利普·博伊德博士)和副主席(格雷琴·霍夫曼博士)试图考虑一个将重点放在这些确定的领域的地点，并报告在这一快速发展的海洋全球变化生物学领域的进展情况。

The study of global change biology in the oceans has emerged as a major area of focus for marine sciences. This area of research is multidisciplinary, encompassing biological, chemical and physical oceanography, along with marine ecology and evolutionary biology. This research community has previously been challenged in meeting to share data and advances made in this rapidly developing field of study. However, the inaugural Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Ocean Global Change Biology in July 2014 created an opportunity for the U.S. science community to discussion and share cutting edge results in the retreat-like atmosphere of a Gordon Conference. The meeting was very successful, with excellent attendance, particularly from early career scientists. This proposal is a request for funding to support the second and upcoming 2016 GRC on Ocean Global Change on to be held at the Waterville Valley Conference Center in Waterville Valley, NH on July 17-22, 2016. Funding to the 2016 GRC on Ocean Global Change Biology will support U.S. researchers in attending a meeting where ideas can be exchanged and research directions can be improved and advanced. These meetings are highly attended by scientists from other countries, thus creating an opportunity for U.S. marine scientists to develop international collaborations in this globally important field. During the GRC itself and in the Gordon Research Seminar preceding it, awards will support interdisciplinary training for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The project will advance the science communication skills and insights of the U.S. scientists via a special theme designed to address communicating the results of scientific research to policymakers and managersThis meeting will facilitate the sharing of new results, often times unpublished material, from investigators in Ocean Global Change Biology. The fist meeting served to highlight exciting new areas of research in the field and the second GRC on Ocean Global Change Biology will build upon these important emerging directions in 9 themes that comprise the actual 5-day conference. These include the need to focus on adaptation and evolutionary rescue as a possible response to climate change and multistressors, the use of genomics tools and next generation sequencing to facilitate the study of evolutionary response, the need to examine species interactions in the context of environmental change, to continue to explore the interaction of physical factors such as OA, temperature and deoxygenation of coastal waters, and finally to also examine ecosystem-level consequences where possible. Notably, in reviews of the first GRC, conferees noted there a session on science communication. Such a session will be included to discuss how the results of research in ocean global change research can be made more accessible to policymakers and managers. In designing the new themes, the Chair (Dr. Philip Boyd) and Vice Chair (Dr. Gretchen Hofmann) have attempted to take into consideration a venue that will focus on these identified areas, and to also report on progress in this rapidly advancing field of ocean global change biology..