FASTNET - Fluxes Across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic

FastNet的研究人员有在高影响力期刊、国际会议和科学工作组和小组成员中持续发表和介绍他们的研究的强有力的、可证明的记录(见研究人员简历)。在FastNet的整个生命周期及以后，我们将与英国和国际物理海洋学团体保持这一水平的接触。FASTNEt将是一个机会，利用最新的自主技术对动态的海洋大陆架领域进行前所未有的季节性观测。我们在理解这一系统方面的预期飞跃将有利于所有受邻近海洋影响的陆架海研究。除物理界外，以下相关领域的研究人员将特别受益：-营养通量和陆架海中的循环，包括碳和二氧化碳-陆架海的生物地球化学建模-生物生产力，以及有害藻华的发展研究在英国，在海洋2025计划期间已经成熟的海洋科学方面有一种积极的跨学科方法。我们将确保Fastnet通过机构和社区活动实现更广泛的学术利益，例如两年一度的英国挑战者协会会议，来自不同海洋学科的研究人员聚集在一起。我们还将积极与NERC高级研究员合作；在这里，我们特别指出M Green博士(班戈)和D McKee博士(Strathclyde)，他们分别在陆架季节的背景下研究海洋混合和海洋光学。Fastnet中的建模组件将与国家海洋预报中心(项目合作伙伴)的研究人员一起找到其主要的学术受益者-NCOF的业务预报方面使Fastnet具有更广泛的社会影响。我们计划与NCOF定期举行科学会议，以确保这一群体获得最大利益。Fastnet建模工作还将使MITgcm模型界的学者受益，并有助于NEMO的进一步开发和实施；将Fastnet数据和交付成果带入广泛的国际用户社区。我们还看到了利用Fastnet的数据来帮助开发新的建模环境的机会，例如像帝国理工学院海洋模型这样的非结构化网格计划。在国际上，我们将通过在主要会议上寻求主题演讲和全体会议来推广Fastnet。Fastnet还与俄勒冈州立大学海岸和陆架海洋研究小组(通过Co-I Boyd和Dale)建立了密切的联盟，后者是美国海洋大陆架海洋学的领先组织之一。更广泛地说，我们将通过参与海洋研究科学委员会(SCOR)致力于大陆架交换的第129号工作组(Co-I Sharples是该工作组的成员)，扩大FastNet的学术覆盖范围。通过与该工作组的合作，我们的目标是将FastNet纳入这一活跃的海洋研究项目和团体的国际论坛。两个特别的国际科学框架为与FastNet进行跨学科合作提供了极好的机会，它们是“沿海地区的陆海相互作用”(LOICZ)和“海洋生物地球化学和生态系统综合研究”(IMBER)。

The investigators within FASTNEt have a strong, demonstrable record of sustained publication and presentation of their research in high impact journals, international conferences and membership of scientific working groups and panels (see investigator CVs). Through the lifetime of FASTNEt and beyond, we will maintain this level of engagement with the UK and international physical oceanography communities.FASTNEt will be an opportunity to make unprecedented seasonal observations of the dynamic ocean-shelf domain using the latest autonomous technologies. The expected leap forward in our understanding of this system will benefit all studies of shelf seas that are influenced by the adjacent ocean. Beyond the physics community, there will be particular benefit to researchers in the associated fields of:- nutrient fluxes and cycling in shelf seas, including carbon and CO2- biogeochemical modeling of shelf seas- biological productivity, and research into the development of harmful algal bloomsWithin the UK, there is an active cross-disciplinary approach to marine science that has matured during the Oceans 2025 program. We will ensure the wider academic benefits of FASTNEt are achieved through institutional and community events, for example the biennial UK Challenger Society Conference, which brings together researchers from different marine disciplines. We will also collaborate actively with NERC Advanced Fellows; here we identify particularly Dr M Green (Bangor) and Dr D McKee (Strathclyde) who are investigating respectively, ocean mixing and ocean optics in the context of shelf seas.The modeling component within FASTNEt will find its main academic beneficiary with researchers at the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (Project Partner) - with the operational forecasting aspect of NCOF giving FASTNEt a wider sphere of societal impact. We have planned regular science meetings with NCOF to ensure greatest benefit to this group. FASTNEt modeling work will also benefit academics in the MITgcm modeling community and contribute to the further development and implementation of NEMO; bringing FASTNEt data and deliverables into a wide international user community. We also see opportunities to use data from FASTNEt to benefit the development of new modeling environments such as unstructured mesh schemes like the Imperial College Ocean Model.Internationally, we will promote FASTNEt by seeking keynote and plenary talks in major conferences. FASTNEt also has close alliances with the Oregon State University coastal and shelf seas research group (through Co-I Boyd and Dale); one of the leading US groups in ocean-shelf oceanography. More broadly, we will extend the academic reach of FASTNEt through our involvement with the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) Working Group #129 dedicated to Ocean-shelf exchanges (where Co-I Sharples is a member). Through association with this Working Group we aim to bring FASTNEt within this active international forum of oceanographic research projects and groups. Two particular international science frameworks that offer excellent opportunities for cross disciplinary working with FASTNEt are 'Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone' (LOICZ) and 'Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research' (IMBER).