NSF Convergence Accelerator: Future of Oceans: Innovation, Exploration, and Utilization

该项目将组织和主办一个以海洋未来为重点的讲习班。会议旨在将来自学术界、工业界、政府和基金会等众多学科和组织的利益相关者聚集在一起，以确定和探索海洋创新、探索和利用方面的合作途径。目标是开发一个潜在的NSF融合加速器的未来主题（轨道），确定该主题的潜在范围，支持该主题可能产生的潜在可交付成果，可以在融合研究方法下聚集在一起的学科专业知识，以及如果支持该主题，可以跨学术界，工业界，基金会和政府参与的伙伴关系。海洋是食物、能源、天气和气候稳定、生态多样性以及对社会重要的许多其他资源的主要来源。通过确定海洋创新、勘探和利用的趋同方法，本次会议将对可持续性问题（能源、食品、气候、污染）、国家安全问题（国防、风险评估、海洋技术）和国家工业（渔业、航运、石油、能源、旅游）产生直接影响。由于生态、国防和工业资源的迫切需求，学术界、工业界、非营利组织和政府对海洋科学技术的兴趣日益浓厚。研讨会将集中讨论从技术、工业和科学学科三个不同角度解决海洋问题和新出现的机遇的趋同战略。该主题具有很强的融合潜力，涉及物理科学、生命科学、社会科学和工程等学科。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will organize and host a workshop focused on the future of oceans. The conference aims to bring together stakeholders from numerous disciplines and organizations - spanning academia, industry, government, and foundations - in order to identify and explore avenues for collaborations in ocean innovation, exploration, and utilization. The goal is to develop a potential future topic (track) of the NSF Convergence Accelerator, identifying the potential scope of the topic, the potential deliverables that could result from supporting that topic, the disciplinary expertise that could come together under a convergence research approach, and the partnerships that could be engaged across academia, industry, foundations, and government if the topic were supported. The ocean is a primary source of food, energy, weather and climate stabilization, ecological diversity, and numerous other resources important to society. By identifying convergent approaches for ocean innovation, exploration, and utilization, this conference will have direct impact on sustainability concerns (energy, food, climate, pollution), national security matters (defense, risk assessment, marine technologies), and national industries (fishing, shipping, oil, energy, tourism). Academia, industry, non-profits, and governments have increasing interest in ocean science and technologies due to emergent needs for ecological, defense, and industrial resources. The workshop will focus on convergent strategies to tackle ocean problems and emerging opportunities from three different lenses: technology, industry, and scientific disciplines. The topic has the potential to be strongly convergent, engaging disciplines across the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and engineering.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.