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1. Your name
Barbara Ransom
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
govermnent
4. Your discipline
marine geology and geophysics
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
The deep biosphere, who's there, where is it, can we predict the distribution and composition of microbial consortia, what is their
impact, and can we learn things about these microbes that will be important to natural products research, the origin of life, the
global carbon cycle, or life in extreme envionments in temperature, pressure, and time.
Modeling the record of paleoclimate studies coming from seafloor sediments and integrating those records and creating models to
mesh with Global Climate and Earth System Models so we can look backward as well as forward in time to be better be able to
think about what we may be facing in the realm of climate change.
Understanding subseafloor carbon fluid and reservoirs and their impact on global carbon and geochemical cycles, subduction zone
processes, including implications for island arc volcanism, seeps, earthquakes, and hydrothermal fluid-rock interaction in the
subsurface.
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
Themes are
1. The nature, extent, and longevity of the Deep Biosphere.
2. Chemical cycling through subduction zones and quantitative means to assess the impact of dehydration on convergent marging
hazards (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis.
3. Coastal Processes and Adaptation - 50% of the global population is on the coast. Sealevel rise, changes in climate and weather
paterns, eutrophication, degradation of marine ecosystems, and sediment transport and erosion will be huge.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
AUVs and other robotic untethered vehicles outfitted with more and better geochemical and optical/motion sensors will be essential.
Static and fixed assets will decline in importance. A program to help to accelerate technological and sensor development in this area
is desperately needed.
Changing the structure of OCE to reflect interdisciplinary themes, as opposed to disciplines as it is now. For example
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biogeochemical cycles would combine programs, scientists and ideas from all of the OCE science programs (CO, PO, BO, and
MGG) removing barriers between disciplines. Another example m ight be ocean chemical evolution which would involve the CO
and MGG programs seamlessly, or perhaps Deep Biosphere which woud combine BO, MGG, and CO; coastal ocean processes
could be another in which PO,CO, BO, and MGG would all be components.
Interagency collaboration with NOAA Ocean Exploration and the USGS Marine Geology group would strenghen all parties and
expand use of federal faciliteis.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
OCE has two science sections - one that deals with the water column and its biological inhabitants and the other with the solid
earth beneath the water column where many processes that affect the water column occur. The present make up of the committee
does not appear to reflect a balance of the representative disciplines involved (i.e., mostly water column scientists). Also don't see
much representation from ocean engineering, the third OCE section where many advances in tools and increased capabilities
required for us to make new discoveries are included. If this commmittee is mainly focused on the water column, as it appears to be
in terms of its composition, I fear that the important contributions from solid earth processes and ocean engineering wil l not be
addressed and this committee may not be able to adequately guide all parts of the NSF Division of Ocean Science in potential
priority areas for the future.
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1. Your name
Henry Dick
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4. Your discipline
Marine geology and geophysics, Igneous petrology, tectonics
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
Nature and composition of the ocean crust
Mechanisms of sea floor spreading and plate tectonics
Climate
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
Slow spreading ocean ridge tectonics and crustal structure
processes of mantle convection
Composition of the ocean crust
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
#1) Ocean drill ing both ultradeep (>1 km) and shallow (< 1 km).
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#2) Automous underwater vehicles for mapping and sampling both within the oceans and on its floor.
#3) Remotely operated vehicles such as Jason or Roopos.
# Last) The worst expenditure of funds are instrumented cabled observatories (OOI) You can no more understand ocean dynamics
and ocean crust evolution from 7 (?) seafloor cabled observatories, than you can atmosphere circulation and weather with 7
weather stations. This compared to other priorities in a vast ocean - is an absurdity. Moreover, servicing these facili ties will
monopolize ship time, limit vessel schedules to restricted areas of the oceans, and cripple US marine global research at the same
time that our global competitors are expanding their reach to a truly global scale. The US needs to stop this retreat from global
science!
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
This committee is unrepresentative of the field of ocean science, totally lacking representation from the petrology and geochemistry
communities studying the ocean crust and mantle, marine ridge tectonics, seamounts, etc. This omission is so utterly astounding
that it would have to be deliberate.
Second: repeating from above: The worst expenditure of funds are instrumented cabled observatories (OOI) You can no more
understand ocean dynamics and ocean crust evolution from 7 (?) seafloor cabled observatories, than you can atmosphere
circulation and weather with 7 weather stations. This compared to other priorities in a vast ocean - is an absurdity. Moreover,
servicing these facilities will monopolize ship time, limit vessel schedules to restricted areas of the oceans, and cripple US marine
global research at the same time that our global competitors are expanding their reach to a truly global scale. The US needs to stop
this retreat from global science!
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1. Your name
Allison Miller
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Schmidt Ocean Institute
4. Your discipline
Oceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1. Ocean Acidification
2. Overfishing/Availability of Seafood
3. Deep sea research
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6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
1. Ocean Acidification
2. Technology innovation - innovative sensors, monitoring, technology development etc.
3. Heat Budget/global warming of the oceans - how much heat can the ocean absorb?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identifiedto best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
1. Research Funding beyond the Federal Government - Schmidt Ocean Institute, Gordon Betty Moore Foundation. They have
funds and also set their own investment agendas beyond the scope of the Federal Government's interest in Oceanography.
2. Access to cheaper/more distributed technologies. With decreasing budgets, free ship time (for example aboard the R/V Falkor)
and increased use of AUVs, ROVs, etc. that don't necessarily require large ships for research wil l become more widespread.
3. More Ocean Infrastructure, while OOI will be a great initiative for ocean observing once complete, scientists do not know much
about what is being built and how they can be involved i.e. collect their data using the established infrastructure. From this data
management will also play a larger role has collecting large amounts of data become the standard.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
I urge the Committee to look beyond what is available or invested in by the Federal Government. The Schmidt Ocean Institute
operates its own research vessel that researchers can use free of charge, the Marine Science and Technology Foundation awards
contracts to new and emerging technology development, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funds research focused on deep
sea microbiology, The X Prize has an Ocean Health Initiative, etc. etc. These initiatives and foundations will become the standard -
they can invest in more risky research and development than the Federal Government would take on and can often shape their own
agendas.
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1. Your name
Dennis Hansell
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Miami
4. Your discipline
Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
What are the most important anthropogenic impacts on the ocean, how do they act, and how can they be ameliorated?
When (and to what) will the ocean change from its current role as a reservoir for anthropogenic heat and carbon?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
What is the role of organic matter as a long term reservoir of carbon, and how has that role varied in relation to climatic variations.
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What controls the shifts in productivity seen in ocean time-series observations; we see the shifts but we still do not understand the
underlying mechanisms.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
We require great improvements in data management/access/visualization software to maximize and broaden the value of ourmassive collections of ocean data; we should benefit from advances made in molecular biology data handling. The software must
continue to be easily accessible and friendly for use in education.
Ocean observing systems having a global relevance must grow.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Galen McKinley
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4. Your discipline
Ocean carbon and biogeochemistry
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
What are the fundamental mechanisms and the rates at which the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets melt and drive sea level
rise?
What is the role of ocean physics and ocean biogeochemistry in natural climate change (glacial/interglacial cycles) and in the climate
response to anthropogenic CO2 forcing?
What is the impact of ocean acidification on organisms and ecosystems?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over thenext decade.
What is the impact of ocean acidification on organisms and ecosystems?
How is the ocean sink of anthropogenic CO2 responding to changing climate (climate-carbon feedbacks)?
What mechanisms couple ocean physics and biogeochemistry on interannual timescales - are these largely modifications of
mechanisms of the seasonal cycle?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
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Programs - Antarctic Science needs to focus on Antartica - ice sheets and climate in particular. Polar program money should not be
funding Astronomy / Dark Matter research with Ice Cube.
Autonomous platforms need to continue to have investment. But ships are also needed and will always be. Ice breakers for Antartic
and Arctic Science.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Kevin Trenberth
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
NCAR
4. Your discipline
climate
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
Can we maintain and even improve the ocean observing system?
How can we greatly improve data assimilation and resulting ocean products?
How can we improve ocean models?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
How is the ocean heat content changing, especially in space (including with depth) and time?
How are ocean currents changing and varying, and why?
How can we improve the surface energy and water budgets, and associated fluxes?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
TOGA/TAO array is is in major disarray and not being adequately maintained. The observing system has changed since it was
implemented (mainly in 1993) with Argo. So what is an optimal observing strategy within resource lim its? How can much betteruse be made of multivariate observations, especially from space? How can the huge discrepancies among results from different
groups be narrowed and best practices for analysis be developed? Groups need to be confronted with the disparities and they
should be reduced, perhaps with targeted field programs.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Oceanography is important and exciting because of Argo, with a lot of new information, but it is not being properly used.
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1. Your name
Joel Curtis
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
NWS Juneau Alaska
4. Your discipline
Operational Meteorology
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1) Ocean heat transport and feedback mechanisms including biological.
2) Ocean acidification and impacts.
3) sea level rise (fall in my local case) and impacts.
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
1) additional heat input from the ocean into all developing weather systems, both tropical and extratropical. Be sure to capture
feedback mechanisms and be alert to unexpected consequences of the extra heat.
2) refinement of storm surge forecasting.
3) effects of open water in the arctic.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Regarding US national efforts:
1) calibration of tide gauges to flooding. improved inundation mapping.
2) Lobby to have the US sign "The law of the Sea" to secure our waters for commerce and science out to and beyond the
continental shelf.
3) Build and deploy icebreakers combined with science equipment. Base these assets on or near arctic waters.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Avery Sen
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
DoC/NOAA/OAR/PPE
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4. Your discipline
Public Administration
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
In what ways, and to what degrees, do people value the ocean?
What are the social consequences of predicted changes in the ocean?
How do people access, interpret, and act on environmental information?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
What are the comparative advantages (and relative roles) of the multitude of public, private, and academic institutions involved in
ocean science?
Is the integration of ocean science systems (technologies and institutions) performed with respect to public values or scientific
interests?
Are students of ocean science acquiring the trans-disciplinary skills necessary to work effectively on teams with counterparts in
other professions.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Only have time for one:
Conduct high-risk, high-return research on decision support w.r.t. environmental information, possibly via a Cooperative Institute
between NOAA and leading design departments (e.g., MIT Media Lab, Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab,) or via a CRADA with privatefirms (e.g., IDEO).
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Pomponi and Titley? What a team! I look forward to the results.
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1. Your name
David Kadko
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Univ Miami
4. Your discipline
marine geochemistry
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5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1. Accelerated Arctic change (sea ice, ocean chemistry, ecosystem.
2. Expanding oxygen minimum zones
3. Ocean acidifcation
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
The biochemistry and ecology of the rapidly evolving Arctic needs to be better studied. This will provide a baseline with which to
compare the Arctic of the next decades, provide data to verify models of the Arctic system, and provide data and elucidate processes
that will inform us of the trajectory of change.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
There is a dearth of icebreakers and other platforms required for high latitude studies. Consideration of the rapidly evolving Arctic
lends a certain urgency to this situation.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Rhian Waller
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Maine
4. Your discipline
Marine Biology, Biological Oceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
- Taxonomy - what are the species that live in our oceans? Taxonomic expertise is the poorest it has been in decades - getting
species identified and described for most groups is almost impossible, yet vital to our true understanding of ocean processes and
function.
- Functional Ecology - How do organisms adapt to change? Basic ecological principles for most species are unstudied, and in
many cases unfundable to be studied, so are done as side projects. A real focus on researching basic ecological principles is
essential to understanding, and putting into context, more complex species interactions and wider ocean scale biological processes.
- Ecosystem Ecology - How to marine ecosystems function both individually and as complex connected habitats? Understanding
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how ecosystems function and are connected provides insights for the overall sustainability of the ocean. This is necessary
information in a time of increasing anthropogenic impacts and willingness to preserve small ecosystems.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Emmanuel Boss
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Maine
4. Your discipline
Oceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Please read the national academy of sciences: An Ocean Infrastructure Strategy for U.S. Ocean Research in 2030. It includes
answers to all the questions you have asked.
Many (me included) have invested a lot of time working on this report which contains the material pertinent for yours as well. It
seems that the powers-to-be have elected to ignore this report. I wish you wi ll not waste your precious time.
All the best, Emm anuel
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1. Your name
Martin Jutzeler
2. Your email address
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3. Your affil iation
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
4. Your discipline
Volcanology, sedimentology and marine geoscience
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
- Clim atic record
- Origin and spread of volcanic ash beds
- Debris avalanche deposits/landslides
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
What are the products of submarine explosive volcanism?
How to differentiate marine ash beds/products from subaerial vs. subm arine volcanism?
How to recognize pumice rafts deposits?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Cores from IODP and ROVs
ROV surveys
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Gregory Johnson
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
NOAA/PMEL & UW/Oceanography
4. Your discipline
Oceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
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over the decade.
1. What is the ocean storage, uptake, and transport of heat? Answering these questions are vital to understanding how much and
how fast the climate will warm, how much and how fast sea level will rise, and how regional climate will change.
2. What is the change in ocean acidification and how does it affect ecosystems?
3. How and why are ocean oxygen levels changing, and how do these changes relate to changes in ecosystems?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
1. How much heat is the global ocean absorbing, and how is ocean transport of heat changing? The oceans take up over 90% ofthe current planetary energy imbalance, and are the flywheel of the climate system. The flywheel is spinning now, and we need to
know how fast.
2. How are changing ocean salinity patterns linked to changes in the global hydrological cycle? The oceans play a huge role in the
global hydrological cycle, and ocean salinity is a very sensi tive indicator and integrator of changes in that cycle for over the 70% of
the planet's surface.
3. What is the role of ocean temperature changes in determining the rate marine ice sheet melting and its contribution to sea level?
Ice sheets melt appears to be accelerating, and changing ocean temperatures may be a part of that.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identifiedto best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
1. We must expand our observing system to allow global full-depth analyses of the ocean's changing heat and salt patterns, and
hence sea-level. This means implementing programs along the lines of "Deep Argo", and "Under-Ice Argo". The ocean is storing
most of the heat taken up by the climate system, and
2. We must also expand our global-scale observations of oxygen and carbon system parameters beyond the current repeat
hydrography program (http://www.go-ship.org/). This means developing and deploying stable, small- scale, low-cost, low-energy
use sensors on platforms like Argo. This will be a challenge, and quite relevant to society, but we must raise new funding for this
expansion of the observing system, and not cannibalize the existing observing system by expanding it without this new funding.
3. We must figure out how to measure the ocean temperature under ice sheets, a very challenging problem, but one of vital
importance, as water can carry at lot of heat, melting ice fast.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Matt Gill igan
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Professor Emeritus Savannah State University
4. Your discipline
undergraduate and graduate marine sciences education/degrees
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
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6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.Hum an resource development is a critical ocean science infrastructure element. If the drivers of ocean science programs at NSF are
the research questions posed and material infrastructure needed to address them by majority rule (e.g. survey tally), there is an
unintentional risk of asking traditional questions, neglecting new perspectives, and perpetuating a traditional workforce. At risk, quite
frankly, is the relevancy and vitality of ocean sciences in a demographically-diverse nation. Despite decades of concern, the ocean
science community has not successfully in attracted and retained underrepresented minorities. The numbers entering advanced
degree programs in the ocean geosciences have not increased beyond a trickle. Ocean science research planning/programs should
not be distinct from from education research/planning. Integrating them will help tap high-achieving STEM students from beyond
traditional backgrounds and groups. The issue needs to be a priority.
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1. Your name
William Sager
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Houston
4. Your discipline
Marine Geology & Geophysics
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1. Effects and contributions of the oceans to clim ate change.
2. Understanding and management of ecosystems and ocean l ife.
3. High-resolution exploration and understanding of the hidden ocean realm.
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over thenext decade.
1. Distribution and abundance of ocean energy and material resources.
2. High-resolution mapping of ocean geology and structure.
3. Understanding the limits of plate tectonics.
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
1. Next generation satellite altimetry mapping.
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2. Development of autonomous vehicles for m apping or recording marine geophysical data.
3. Widespread multi beam & side-scan sonar mapping of the seafloor.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
The current funding environment is not conducive to advances in marine geology and geophysics owing to the expense of ocean
operations and the declining funding stream for ships and scientific projects.
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1. Your name
joern thiede
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
St. Petersburg (RF) State University
4. Your discipline
Paleoceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1. Paleoenvironmental History of the Arctic Ocean
2. Nature and age of Arctic Ocean basement
3. Potential for the regular access to the Arctic Ocean
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over thenext decade.
See above
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
The US Marine Polar Research Community has been fragemented, uncourageous and undecisive for future activitie. We urgently
need a novel novel research ice breaker with features like: All season capabil ity for operations in the central Arctic Ocean and in the
Southern oceans, autonomous operations in ice-covered oceans, dynamic positioning against the drifiting sea-ice cover, moon
pool for the deployment of sensitive instrumentation, deep-sea drilling). To try to be in the forefront of international polar marine
science requires to be able to do things which nobody has been able to do before. A ship as envisaged by ERICON provides
capacities which go far beyond the possibilities of one single nation.. The ERICON-deliverables in general cover the governance of
an innovative new international research icebreaker, the first of its kind and globally the largest climate- and enviroment-related
scientific infrastructure project. For details see eri-aurora-borealis.eu website
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Robert Anderson
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
4. Your discipline
Chemical and paleoceanography
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.a) How does chemical-biological coupling influence (a) marine ecosystems and (b) marine biogeochemical cycles? Recent
advances in m olecular biology and in the analytical chemistry of micronutrients now m akes possible the interdiscipl inary
investigation of these two-way interactions.
b) How does the circulation of the Southern Ocean respond to external forcing (e.g., climate) and how can the relevant processes be
modeled accurately? Southern Ocean circulation plays a critical role in supplying nutrients to low-latitude ecosystems and in
regulating the efficiency of the oceans biological pump. Improvements are needed in both observations and models of the
Southern Ocean.
c) How sensitive are regional patterns of global climate to Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? Has the importance of
AMOC been overestimated?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
a) How did the oxygen concentration in the deep ocean change throughout the geologically-recent past (e.g., past million years) and
how can we reconstruct those changes quantitatively and reliably?
b) What is the relative importance of rivers, atmospheric transport, exchange with ocean sediments and hydrothermal systems as
sources of dissolved chemicals to the ocean? This is an old question, but the technologies needed to answer it quantitatively are
now available.
c) See also (1)
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role inaddressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
a) Coordinate more of the research in US oceanography to exploit the synergies of multi- investigator collaboration. Big problems
are often global in scope, requiring large coordinated efforts to study them (e.g., ARGO, GEOTRACES two effective but different
approaches, each appropriate for its field).
b) Reverse the trend toward smaller research vessels. The next generation of oceanography will require more hands at sea, not
fewer. Future interdisciplinary research topics, such as chemical-biological coupling (see Item #1) will require more hands than
ever. Ships like the Thompson and Revelle have insufficient berths for such interdisciplinary research.
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c) Simplify and reduce the bureaucracy associated with award administration. Multiple forms of compliance and reporting are
consum ing an inordinate fraction of an investigators tim e, often without guidance or lim its of comm on sense. Implement a
program to review the administrative demands on investigators.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Talk to your colleagues while working on the committee's charge. Regular interaction and feedback will be helpful.
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1. Your name
Michael Strasser
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
4. Your discipline
Sedimentology, Marine Geology and Geophysics
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
What mechanisms control the occurance of oceanic geohazards including earthquake landslides and tsunamis?
What are the origin and limits of l ife in the subseafloor?
How does Earth's climate system, ecosystem, and biodiversity respons to elevated levels of atmospheric C02?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
when, where and how do great earthquake occur?
How do subduction zone megathrust accumulate and relase strain in great earthquake or during slow slip events?
Why do some earthquake trigger large tsunamigenic landslides while others don't?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Riser Drilling
Subseafloor borehole observatories
piston coring and shallow drilling of the sedimentary successions recording past occurance of oceanic geohazard events in the
stratigraphic archive
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Scientific Ocean Drilling is a story of success and must be continued to keep making new discoveries and advancing our
understanding in various fields reaching far beyond "Ocean Sciences objecties" (see above). The subseafloor Earth remains largly
undersampled, hampering a holistic comprehesion of our Earth system.
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1. Your name
Shouye Yang
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
State Key Lab of Marine Geology, Tongji University, China
4. Your discipline
marine geology and geochemistry
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
How ocean influences global climate over the geologic past and in the future?
Ocean acidificationElemental cycling in the ocean from water to sediment and rock
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
As above
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Cabled subm arine observatory covering the coastal to deep ocean
Geologic and geochemical section plan from the highest Tibet to the deepest Mariana Trench
Ocean for the public: international program on ocean conservation
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
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1. Your name
Parker MacCready
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
University of Washington
4. Your discipline
Physical Oceanography
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5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1. How will ocean acidification alter marine ecosystems, particularly coastal and estuarine?
2. How can we best collaborate with computer scientists to enhance numerical modeling and data analysis?
3. How can we better connect our science to the publ ic? Most people have very limited understanding of the ocean, and we have
limited understanding of what stakeholders need. Do any of your non-oceanographer friends know what an internal wave is? Why
should they care?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
1. How can we make modeling easier?
2. Access to observational data and model output is much harder than it needs to be.
3. What physics controls the strength of the estuarine exchange flow?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
1. Strong institutional collaboration with computer science (joint teaching, research, advising).2. Cheap robotic sensors - I want to be able to afford and deploy hundreds, and have them swim home at the end of the
experiment.
3. Find a meaningful alternative to the soft money scientist track. In an age of tight funding it is a waste of time and talent.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Be creative and bold! Help us move toward a vision that is worth spending taxpayers money on.
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Tom Pettigrew
2. Your email address
3. Your affil iation
Pettigrew Engineering, PLLC
4. Your disciplineMechanical Engineer (CORK, etc.)
5. Across all ocean science disciplines, please list 3 important scientific questions that you believe will drive ocean research
over the decade.
1) What new technologies wil l be needed to achieve the science goals?
2) What new technologies are commercially available and applicable to achieving the science goals?
3) What new technologies need to be developed and what existing technologies need to be improved upon?
6. Within your own discipline, please list 3 important scientifi c questions that you believe wil l drive ocean research over the
next decade.
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1) Are the tools and equipment currently in IODP's arsenal sufficient to achieve the science goals?
2) Can the existing tools in equipm ent within the IODP arsenal be modified or im proved upon to achieve the science goals?
3) What new tools and equipment are feasible of being developed of achieving the science goals?
7. Please list 3 ideas for programs, technology, infrastructure, or facilities that you believe will play a major role in
addressing the above questions over the next decade. Please consider both existing and new
technology/facilities/infrastructure/programs that could be deployed in this timeframe. What mechanisms might be identified
to best leverage these investments ( interagency collaborations, international partnerships, etc.)?
Formation of a panel composed of existing IODP engineering expertise as well as former IODP personel who have intimate
knowledge of existing IODP technologies, equipment, and operations, to review the science program and identify specific
technologies required to achieve the science goals. These may be existing technologies or modifications of existing technologies or
development of new technologies.
8. Other comments pertinent to the committees charge.
Don't forget about the engineering aspect of the program and it's budget implications.