AccelNet-Implementation: Implementing a Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (iDOOS)

人们对200米以下的深海知之甚少。这个充满活力的领域是生物多样性的巨大储存库，提供关键的气候调节，并拥有丰富的碳氢化合物、矿物和遗传资源。在为可持续发展和管理提供信息所需的水平上观测深海，面临着重大的技术和后勤挑战。为了应对这些挑战，iDOOS项目将实施一项深海观测战略（DOOS），将从事持续深海观测、测绘、勘探、建模、研究和管理的美国和国际网络联合起来，利用彼此的努力、知识和资源。该实施项目将推动全球海洋观测系统社区推动的倡议，该倡议在全球海洋观测系统（GOOS）的框架下开展工作，并被批准为联合国海洋十年行动。通过将跨学科的深海观测者联系起来，将观测社区扩大到非传统合作伙伴，并将数据提供者与用户联系起来，iDOOS将增强GOOS的深海能力并满足社会需求。通过与政策制定者、监管机构和科学协调员的合作，国际深海科学组织将提高对深海科学的认识和支持，并将科学纳入有关气候、生物多样性和可持续性的关键决策。iDOOS将培养一批在全球范围内精通深海观测、建模和数据科学的未来领导者，他们善于与监管机构、政策制定者以及同行科学家沟通。iDOOS主要涉及三个主题：(1)设定深海观测需求；(2)促进综合观测的协调与实施，以满足可持续发展目标和社会需求；(3)转化知识和数据，以实现基于科学的全球深海决策、监管和治理。这些主题将通过区域示范项目的框架加以整合和应用。iDOOS将与GOOS学科专家小组合作，根据深海要求完善基本海洋变量，并与网络伙伴合作，最大限度地实施和使用这些变量。此外，该项目有两个交叉活动。对数据/信息学的关注将为需求设定主题提供最佳实践和标准，支持跨工作组的活动，并为早期职业研究人员提供量身定制的培训。该项目旨在实现可查找、可访问、可互操作和可重复使用（FAIR）的深海数据和数据支持的深海劳动力。iDOOS的一个关键要素是对下一代的指导和培训。iDOOS将组建一个由来自合作网络、更广泛的深海观测社区以及发展中国家和土著社区的深海早期职业研究人员（DOERs）组成的网络。通过主题工作组，该项目将开展培训活动和会议，以大幅改善参与网络之间以及更广泛的深海科学领域的公正、公平、多样性、包容性和归属感。通过国际网络对网络合作加速研究（AccelNet）计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。AccelNet项目支持美国研究网络与国外互补网络之间的战略联系，将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大国际协调努力的重大科学挑战。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。

The deep ocean below 200 m is poorly known. This dynamic realm is a vast repository for biodiversity, provides critical climate regulation, and houses a wealth of hydrocarbon, mineral, and genetic resources. Observing the deep ocean at a level required to inform sustainable development and management faces significant technical and logistical challenges. To address these challenges, the iDOOS project will implement a Deep-Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) that brings together U.S. and international networks engaged in sustained deep-ocean observing, mapping, exploration, modeling, research, and management to leverage each other’s efforts, knowledge, and resources. This implementation project will boost the DOOS community-driven initiative, working under the umbrella of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and endorsed as a United Nations Ocean Decade Action. By connecting deep-ocean observers across disciplines, expanding the observing community to include non-traditional partners, and linking data providers to users, iDOOS will enhance the GOOS deep-ocean capabilities and target societal needs. Through engagement with policy makers, regulators, and science coordinators, iDOOS will raise awareness and support for deep-ocean science, and bring science into critical decisions regarding climate, biodiversity and sustainability. iDOOS will foster a community of future leaders informed in deep-ocean observing, modeling, and data science at a global level who are adept at communicating to regulators and policy makers as well as fellow scientists.iDOOS addresses three main themes: (1) requirement setting for deep ocean observing; (2) promoting the coordination and implementation of integrated observing to address Sustainable Development Goals and societal needs; and (3) translating knowledge and data to allow science-based decision-making, regulation and governance of the global deep ocean. These themes will be integrated and applied via the framework of regional demonstration projects. iDOOS will work with the GOOS disciplinary expert panels to refine Essential Ocean Variables in terms of deep ocean requirements, and with network partners to maximize their implementation and use. In addition, the project has two cross-cutting activities. A focus on data/informatics will contribute best practices and standards to the requirement-setting theme, support activities across the working groups, and offer tailored training to early-career researchers. The project aims to enable findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) deep-sea data and a data-enabled, deep-sea workforce. A key element of iDOOS is the mentorship and training of the next generation. iDOOS will assemble a network of Deep Ocean Early career Researchers (DOERs) drawing from collaborating networks, the broader deep-ocean observing community, as well as from developing countries and indigenous communities. Through the theme working groups, the project will conduct training activities and meetings to substantially improve justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging among the participating networks and more broadly within deep-ocean science.The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts.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.