Expanding Deep-sea Horizons: Scientific Priorities in Abyssal Research

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)将举办一系列三个在线研讨会和一个面对面研讨会，以确定深渊深处的关键科学优先事项和阿尔文结束大修后的核查需求。在网上会议之前，将进行一次广泛分布的调查，以确定研究界对深渊中仍在调查的关键领域以及需要哪些新的和现有的仪器来调查深海的意见。网上会议将暂定围绕三个主题组织：深海作业、海沟和改造断层、以及深海平原和海山。面对面的会议将汇集来自所有主要学科和不同职业阶段的深海研究人员，将在线会议合成两份手稿，一份是审查深渊研究状况并定义社区对研究优先事项的共识，另一份是为DeSSC、NSF和NDSF提供指导，以规划2021年6500 mrHOV Alvin大修后的科学验证考察。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a series of three online workshops and one in person workshop to identify key science priorities at abyssal depths and verification needs when Alvin comes out of overhaul. The online meetings will be preceded by a widely distributed survey to determine the research community's opinions on the key areas that remain under investigated in the abyss and on what new and current instrumentation is needed to investigate the deep ocean.The online meetings will be tentatively organized around three themes: abyssal operations, trenches and transform faults, and abyssal plains and seamounts. An in-person meeting will bring together deep-sea researchers from all major disciplines and at different career stages to synthesize the online meetings into two manuscripts, one that reviews state of research in the abyss and defines the community consensus on research priorities and a second that provides guidance to DeSSC, NSF, and NDSF in planning a science verification expedition when the 6500mrated HOV Alvin comes out of overhaul in 2021.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.