Forecasting the Ocean The 2025–2035 Decade of Ocean Science (2025) / Chapter Skim
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Without such investments, the United States will lose preeminence in this globally competitive endeavor. This report provides advice to NSF on focusing its investments in ocean research, infrastructure, and workforce to meet national and global challenges in the coming decade and beyond, and in doing so, enhance national security, scientific leadership, and a thriving blue economy.
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Progress on this research will contribute to federal management and policy decisions that promote adaptation to changes in the Earth system, resiliency, national security, and prosperity in the ever-changing environment and, it will position the United States as a leader in transformative ocean science. OCEAN SCIENCE RESEARCH PRIORITIES To truly increase fundamental understanding of ocean processes to the point of being able to predict them in areas that are of vital importance to society, the committee recommends that investment be focused on facilitating and promoting research around three main themes and associated urgent research questions: Ocean and Climate, Ecosystem Resilience, and Extreme Events, described in the following sections.
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Long-term hazards, such as saltwater intrusion and land loss from sea level rise, currently threaten coastal communities and are expected to become increasingly more severe. Societal vulnerability to these extreme events can be profound, including its dependence on massive, century-scale investments such as port facilities, existing commercial fishing fleets, offshore energy infrastructure, coastal development, and national defense infrastructure.
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Example research directions in support of this theme include integration of knowledge to improve early warning systems of geohazards, increasing ability to predict global weather extremes and apply these forecasts to inform sustainable urban planning, agricultural and forestry practices, and coastal community climate mitigation strategies. Ultimately, the research required to improve forecast of extreme events will improve the safety of communities vulnerable to extreme weather and geophysical hazards.
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Going forward, resource investment is needed, both fiscally and programmatically (including leadership development, management, and outcome assessments) , to continue to support and incentivize building and sustaining transdisciplinary research teams in the field of ocean sciences.
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collaboratively developing and implementing research that addresses societal needs. Investing in training for transdisciplinary skills can result in a workforce prepared to succeed not only in the academic sector of ocean sciences but also more broadly in solutions-oriented science and other sectors of the U.S.
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Ocean Observatories Initiative NSF's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) has seen many successes over the past decade and as it stands, would partially support the urgent research questions for the next decade such as forecasting extreme events and providing data critical to forecasting changes in circulation, carbon and heat transfer, and understanding changes to fisheries and marine ecosystems.
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leadership in scientific ocean drilling on a global stage. To support basic ocean science and the urgent ocean science research portfolio identified in this report for the next decade and beyond, the committee makes the following recommendations: • Legacy assets: NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE)
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o OCE should renew dialogue with both new and long-standing international partners to identify cost-sharing models for dedicated drillship operations; such models may in clude scientist shipboard participation proportional to international contribution lev els. Additional Supporting Infrastructure In addition to supporting the ARF, the OOI, and ocean drilling, OCE supports several other programs that provide the infrastructure to collect data that is necessary to answer the urgent ocean science research questions of the next decade such as the Ocean Bottom Seismographic Instrument Pool, Marine Rock and Sediment Sampling, Ocean Data Facility, Mooring Facilities and Services, autonomous platforms, and marine laboratories.
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Much can be gleaned from existing and recent national and international efforts to develop robust ocean data management strategies; a workshop series or other convening activity would be an appropriate next step for OCE. RECOMMENDATION 4.5: The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences should fund a convening activity, such as a series of workshops, that seeks to gather expert ad vice and input, review established strategies, and develop peer-reviewed guidelines and prac tices for ocean science data curation, computing, and security, both on research vessels and on shore, integrating findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR)
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