Use-Inspired Climate Change Solutions: A TOS-ASLO Workshop Series

美国最大的两个水生科学家专业协会--海洋学会(TOS)和湖泊与海洋学联合科学协会(ASLO)将举办一系列社区推动的信息收集活动，以确定美国和世界因气候变化而面临的跨学科和趋同的挑战。重点将是众包研究方向和解决方案，以减轻气候变化构成的威胁，以便在快速的时间框架内实现对社会和经济的重大影响。一个由思想领袖组成的特别工作组将带头接触湖泊和海洋学社区，其成员反映了不同的跨学科专业知识、性别多样性、职业阶段和种族。活动将得到专业人员的协助，并将与确定针对可持续发展科学的解决方案挂钩。社区外联的成果将包括综合讲习班/交流地点的成果，以及从最近的专业协会摘要中挖掘信息，以增加面对面/虚拟对话和投入。这项工作的更广泛影响将是提出变革性的全球想法，这些想法加速以使用为灵感的、创业的和基于自然的解决方案，以应对国家和世界因全球变暖而面临的威胁，而全球变暖正在推动气候变化。因此，潜在的社会影响是巨大的。其他影响包括水生科学界的建设；支持早期职业科学家的发展；加强跨学科、机构间和国际合作；提供政府、学术和私营部门之间的联系工具，将发达国家和发展中国家的科学家联系起来，加快设计和实施以使用为灵感的气候变化解决方案。气候变化及其对环境、社会、土地利用模式、社区位置等的影响是国家和世界面临的严重问题。美国两个主要的水生科学家专业协会(海洋学会和湖泊与海洋学联合科学协会)将利用他们的数千名科学家网络，为气候变化引起的可处理问题的解决方案获取意见和众包想法。这些专业学会将与国内和国际的成员共同举行会议、调查和对话，以确定可能的领域，即跨学科和利益相关者群体的汇聚科学，以及可以在短时间内取得重大进展的领域。这两个专业协会将生成一份报告，提交给国家科学基金会。这一奖项反映了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 Oceanography Society (TOS) and the Associated Sciences for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), the two largest professional societies of aquatic scientists in the US will hold a series of community-driven information collecting events to identify interdisciplinary and convergent challenges the nation and world are facing due to climate change. A focus will be to crowdsource research directions and solutions to mitigate the threats posed by climate change in such a way that major impacts to society and the economy will be realized within a quick time frame. Outreach to the limnology and oceanographic communities will be spearheaded by a task force of thought leaders with a membership reflecting diverse interdisciplinary expertise, gender diversity, career stage, and ethnicity. Activities will be professionally facilitated and will be tied to identifying solutions that target sustainability science. Results of the community outreach will include a synthesis of workshop/communication venue results as well as the mining of information from recent professional society abstracts to augment the in-person/virtual conversations and input. Broader impacts of the work will be to surface transformational, global ideas that accelerate use-inspired, entrepreneurial, and nature-based solutions to the threats the nation and world are facing due to a warming world which is driving climate change. As such, the potential societal impacts are great. Other impacts include aquatic science community building; support of the development of early-career scientists; enhancing interdisciplinary, inter-agency, and international collaborations; and providing vehicles for connections between government, academic, and the private sector that link scientists in developed and developing nations in accelerating the design and implementation of use-inspired climate change solutions.Climate change and its impacts on the environment, society, patterns of land use, locations of communities, etc. are serious problems facing the nation and the world. The two US premier professional societies of aquatic scientists (The Oceanographic Society and the Associated Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography) will use their network of thousands of scientists to obtain input and crowdsource ideas for solutions to tractable issues being caused by climate change. These professional societies will jointly hold meetings, surveys, and conversations with members, nationally and internationally, to identify possible areas in which convergent science that crosses disciplines and stakeholder groups and where major advances in a short time frame can be made. The two professional societies will generate a report that will be submitted to the National Science Foundation.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.