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Reef Solutions: Convergence of Research and Technology to Restore Coral Reefs

Authors: Amy Apprill, Yogesh Girdhar, Colleen Hansel, T. Aran Mooney, Weifang Zhang, Tom W. Bell III, Steve Elgar, Konrad Hughen, Michael Jakuba, Jeffrey Kaeli, Elizabeth Kujawinski, Robin Littlefield, Yaqin Liu, Matt Long, Anna Michel, Jesus Pineda, Ann Tarrant, Peter Traykovski, Z. Alex Wang, Daniel P. Zitterbart

A convergence of diverse research expertise and approaches paired with new technological advances are essential to overcoming the challenges associated with rebuilding biodiverse, complex and iconic coral reef ecosystems and ensuring the future of resources utilized by one-eighth of the world's population.

A Global eDNA Monitoring System (GeMS)

Authors: Francisco Chavez, Margaret Leinen, Andrew Allen, Jeff Bowman, Jules Jaffe, Chris Scholin

GeMS would harness the readings provided by Environmental DNA, genetic material suspended in seawater. Molecular techniques can be used to see who was there, from viruses to top predators. The technology provides many opportunities to further understand ocean life and how to protect its species.

Storm Impacts on Ocean Systems and Coastal Communities

Author: Britt Raubenheimer

The use of rapidly deployable monitoring stations during large storms will advance ocean and land processes and interactions theories. The real-time observations of physical, chemical, and biological measurements will also provide critical information for emergency management, federal agencies, coastal industries, and communities. It is necessary to develop a national initiative, expand existing networks of researchers, and create new technologies for novel observing systems that can be deployed rapidly in areas likely to be impacted by impending storms.

Ocean Genome Atlas Project, a mission to genomically map the full biodiversity of the world's oceans at single-cell-resolution

Authors: Leonid Moroz and Peter Molnar

Ocean Genome Atlas Project (OGAP) will deploy state-of-the-art mobile labs throughout the world's oceans, sample millions of planktonic and benthic organisms, observe, document, and perform a full range of genomic analysis (including single-cell transcriptome and 3D genomic sequencing, as well as metabolomics and proteomics microanalyses) and finally, employ artificial intelligence (AI) to process the datasets. The results will help predict the dynamics of ocean ecosystems and provide critical insights about planetary health, predictive, evolutionary, and fundamental biology, as well as biomedicines of the future. Ultimately, OGAP's work will form the backbone of a dynamic 4D (space and time) Ocean Genome Atlas at single-cell resolution.

The Endless Dive: Marine Species 3D response to climate change in oceans

Authors: Chad Wong

It is well known throughout different ecological systems that with a warming climate, plant and animal species have moved northward to combat the changing climate. This has also been seen in regards to elevation, from reptilian microhabitats to large-scale mountain ranges. Could marine life follow this pattern? With such a unique, 3D landscape, species can move both deeper and northward in response to climate change. This could lead to impacts on fisheries as well as food chains and communities.

Ocean Science and Ocean Worlds

Authors: Christopher German, Kevin Arrigo, Alison Murray, Alyssa Rhoden

Bringing together a new community of Earth, Ocean and Planetary scientists to explore how oceans function elsewhere in our Solar System and to provide fresh perspectives on how essential the oceans are to maintaining a healthy climate and sustaining life on our own planet.

Improving Predictability of the South Asian Monsoon: Identifying and Understanding Multidecadal-Centennial Scale Variability in the Asian Monsoon and Surrounding Oceans

Authors: Konrad Hughen

Understanding long-term patterns of climate change is critical to identifying anthropogenic impacts on climate variability and predicting societally-important impacts in the future. Multi-decadal to centennial scale climate variability remains especially poorly understood, as this window lies mostly beyond the limits of instrumental datasets. This is particularly true in understudied tropical regions, including those affected by the South Asian Monsoon, which delivers critical water resources to over a billion people. Coral paleoclimate reconstructions of Asian Monsoon strength and hydrographic conditions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans can shed light on mechanisms controlling long-term monsoon variability and improve predictions of the future.

The Alexander: A revolutionary submersible research platform

Authors: Bart Kemper, Krista Kemper, Veda Thipparthi, Ana Escobar, Quinton Moore, Linda Cross, Amy Pinner

A novel research submersible that can either anchor to a shallow bottom or free-float beneath the waves. It is launched and recovered by a tender vessel, allowing it to operate world-wide. It's designed for a small operational crew to support teams conducting research and collaboration. A moon pool allows for diving as well as the use of ROVs and AUVs. Common spaces are modular to allow for different configurations to support the mission at hand. Unlike smaller submersibles, this will allow scientists, community leaders, artists, and others share the experience and work together, trading off operational depth for personnel capacity.

Novel Coastal Ecosystems: Engineered Solutions to Accelerate Water Quality Restoration using Engineered Aeration

Authors: Lora Harris, Jeremy Testa, Laura Lapham, Andrew Heyes

Low-oxygen conditions occurring in coastal waters are increasingly driven by nutrient release from human activities impairing ecosystems. Climate changes and ecosystem regime shifts have altered the baselines used to generate restoration targets, so remediation trajectories are now uncertain and management efforts may fall short. A solution involves augmenting nutrient reduction efforts with engineered aeration to make up the difference. Aeration of the water column could not only reverse hypoxia but also accelerates processes that naturally remove nutrients. Thoughtful studies of ecosystem function under engineered conditions are needed to determine feasibility of these solutions and document potential unintended consequences.

OceanPredict.US

Authors: Eric Chassignet, Eric Bayler, Paul DiGiacomo

Leveraging national and international collaborations and partnerships, OceanPredict.US aims to coalesce national global and basin-scale ocean assessment and prediction capabilities into operational implementations supporting nested regional and coastal activities. OceanPredict.US targets the full operational oceanography value chain, spanning: needs, observations, data management, analysis, ocean prediction, dissemination via a digital ocean, and information service delivery, culminating in end use while enabling innovation and value-added development.

Ocean University: Developing a Model Internship Program to Increase Diversity in Ocean Science

Authors: Noa Muraki Gottlieb, Ayana Melvan, Nicole Yen

This proposal was submitted with the goal of developing a model program for university-sponsored internships that will afford all high school students the opportunity to explore, pursue, and ultimately contribute to ocean science. The model includes: (1) a standardized ocean science curriculum with academic and career-oriented elements; (2) guidelines for student mentoring during and post-internship; (3) ongoing academic opportunities to ensure continued support and development; and (4) post-internship community education and outreach.

Enhancing ocean monitoring and prediction with daily global altimetry and scatterometry

Authors: Brian Arbic (University of Michigan), Maarten Buijsman (University of Southern Mississippi), Patrick Heimbach (The University of Texas at Austin), Dimtiris Menemenlis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Scott Palo (University of Colorado, Boulder), Jay Shriver (Naval Research Laboratory), Thomas Yunck (GeoOptics)

Satellite altimetry has revolutionized physical oceanography by providing regular maps of sea surface height on a large scale. These maps have allowed the community to examine a wide variety of oceanic phenomena, including global and regional sea level change. The current generation of altimeters have repeat times of 10-30 days, limiting coverage to those time scales. This project proposes a Cubesat array that uses Cellular Ocean Altimetry/Scatterometry Technology (COAST) to improve ocean estimation and prediction systems. The ultimate goal is a higher frequency of measurements, better measurements of various ocean phenomena and properties, and more applications for search-and rescue, oil spill prediction, and weather and climate prediction.

EquiSea: The Ocean Science Fund for All

Authors: Alexis Valauri-Orton, Brian K. Arbic, Jorge Rafael Bermudez Monsalve, Gina Bonne, Marcia Creary Ford, Edem Mahu, Courtnie Park, Aileen Tan Shau Hwai

EquiSea aims to improve equity in ocean science by establishing a philanthropic fund to provide direct financial support to projects, coordinating capacity development activities, fostering collaboration and co-financing of ocean science between academia, government, NGOs, and private sector actors, and supporting the development of low-cost and easy-to-maintain ocean science technologies.

Ecological Forecasts for a Rapidly Changing Coastal Ocean

Authors: Josie Quintrell, Clarissa Anderson, Gabrielle Canonico, Debra Hernandez, Molly McCommon, Jan Newton

Provide accessible, informative, high-resolution predictions on how changes - from genomes to cells to organisms to ecosystems - may impact people's lives, livelihoods, and property.

Accelerating Global Ocean Observing: Monitoring Coastal Ocean Through Broadly Accessible, Low-Cost Sensor Networks

Authors: Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Anna Michel, and Aran Mooney

This proposal seeks to develop a global network of low-cost, easily produced, and readily deployed ocean graphic censors for use on a wide variety of platforms in the coastal ocean.

An Ocean Science Education Network for the Decade

Authors: Gail Scowcroft, Tina Bishop, Liesl Hotaling, Paula Keener, Janice McDonnell, Cheryl Peach, Peter Tuddenham

A coordinated ocean science education network will leverage resources across sectors and nations to reach global citizenry. A flow of information among scientists, education professionals, indigenous leaders, policymakers, business leaders, and the public will help guide research priorities and enhance global ocean literacy.

Marine Life 2030: Forecasting Changes to Ocean Biodiversity to Inform Decision-Making - A Critical Role for the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)

Authors: Frank Muller-Karger, Maria Kavanaugh, Katrin Iken, Enrique Montes, Francisco Chavez, Henry Ruhl, Robert Miller, Jeffrey Runge, Jackie Grebmeier, Lee Cooper, Brian Helmuth, Elva Escobar-Briones, Neil Hammerschlag, Maury Estes, Jay Pearlman, Erin Hestir, Emmett Duffy, Kristen J. Sarri, Charlotte Hudson, Jason Landrum, Gabrielle Canonico, Libby Jewett, Jan Newton, Barbara Kirkpatrick, Clarissa Anderson

Marine Life 2030 will establish a globally coordinated system to deliver actionable, transdisciplinary knowledge of ocean life to those who need it, promoting human well-being, sustainable development, and ocean conservation.

Marine Health Hubs: Building Interdisciplinary Regional Hubs of Excellence to Research and Address the Societal Impacts of Marine Debris Across the Globe

Authors: Tanya Maslak and Natasha Sadoff

Marine Health Hubs (MHH) program will build capacity for and mobilize interdisciplinary teams worldwide to address marine debris across the continuum of research to application. We will establish self-sustaining regional hubs of excellence to promote interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle plastic marine waste from an environmental, economic, and societal lens.

PERSEUS (Pelagic Ecosystem Research: Structure, Emergent FUnctions, and Synergies)

Authors: Samantha Joye, Joseph Montoya, Ajit Subramaniam

A visionary program aims to characterize the composition, connectivity, and complexity of the ocean ecosystem as emergent properties that vary over ecological and evolutionary time skills.

Implementing a Global Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (iDOOS)

Authors: Lisa Levin, Patrick Heimbach, Henry Ruhl, Karen Stocks, Andrea McCurdy, Leslie Smith

The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) is a GOOS project envisioning a globally integrated network of systems that observes the deep ocean (> 200m, with emphasis > 2000m) in support of strong science, policy and planning for sustainable oceans. This ocean shot (iDOOS) will implement an interconnected network of deep-ocean observing, mapping, exploration, and modelling programs working together for the coming decade.

METEOR: A Mobile (Portable) Ocean Robotic Observatory

Authors: Kanna Rajan, Fernando Aguado, Pierre Lermusiaux, Joao Sousa, Ajit Subramaniam, Joaquin Tintore

A paradigm shift in reliable, efficient, near real-time, affordable, integrated data-gathering, assimilating, and ocean modeling to monitor, understand, predict and effectively manage key ocean processes essential to ocean health.

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COBRA: A Research Accelerator for the Crustal Ocean Biosphere to Catalyze New Knowledge and Inform Decision Making

Authors: Julie A. Huber, Beth Orcutt, Andrew T. Fisher, Jim McManus, Randi Rotjan, and C. Geoffrey Wheat

COBRA will bring together an international interdisciplinary team to coordinate efforts and achieve mutual benefit objectives that catalyze new knowledge and inform decision-making related to the crustal ocean biosphere. Also, COBRA will train the next generation of leaders in ocean exploration, science, and policy.

A Real-Time Global Rivers Observatory

Author: Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink

To understand and document changes in ocean temperatures and mineral sequestering we need to gauge their impact on river basins and the coastal ocean by using the integrative power of fluvial networks to transmit landscape signals. We need to preserve a physical record of changing rivers by building archives of river water and sediment to give future generations a chance to ask novel questions as changes become deeper and more widespread, and to seek answers with new methodologies.

A Global Network of Surface Platforms for the Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS)

Authors: Jaime Palter and Megan Cronin

Air-Sea exchanges of energy, moisture, and gases drive the earth's climate. These interactions influence weather, carbon dioxide distribution, marine life, and human life. OASIS seeks to create a coordinated, multidisciplinary network to observe ocean-atmosphere exchange.

Ocean Sound Atlas

Authors: Kyle Becker, R. Dziak, Heather Spence, Katheryn Nuessly & Chris Parsons

The Ocean Sound Atlas will be a digital global ocean sound map. This interactive system will compile and integrate passive acoustic data by location of recording, for use by researchers, educators, policy-makers, engineers, explorers, sound artists, and other stakeholder groups.

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ICOFS (Integrated Coastal Ocean Forecast Systems)

Authors: Villy Kourafalou, Brian K. Arbic, Alan Blumberg, Eric Chassignet, Kim Cobb, Chris Davis, Pierre Lermusiaux, Claire B. Paris-Limouzy, Jay Pearlman, Kanna Rajan, Samantha Siedlecki, Kristy Tiampo, Rafael Schiller, Fiamma Straneo

ICOFS: Integrated Coastal Ocean Forecast Systems is the U.S. component of the international "CoastPredict: Observing and Predicting the Global Coastal Ocean" Programme coastpredict.org that has been proposed to the Decade and is being developed as a component of the IOC/GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System).

Development of Health Indices for Microbe-Dominated Ocean Systems

Authors: Elizabeth Kujawinski, Amy Apprill, Colleen Hansel, Mak Saito, Benjamin Van Mooy, Mary Ann Moran

Ocean microbes are fundamental to the habitability of Earth. Oceans are changing with climate change, affecting ecosystem processes with unknown consequences. In order to diagnose the health of the oceans, we need to distill oceanographic observations into actionable tools that help us understand and predict the health of the oceans.

Ocean Memory Project: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Global Scale Challenges

Authors: Jody Deming, Daniel Kohn, and Heather Spence

Ocean Memory Project's (OMP) vision is to grow a network of interconnected regional or themed nodes, each able to engage with an array of local challenges and partners while remaining in dialog with our larger community of thought and practice, thus allowing for engaged community growth that links people, and a growing knowledge base, from local to a global scale.

Navigating the Ocean's Role in Carbon Dioxide Removal

Authors: Adam Subhas, Heather Kim, Ken Buesseler

We propose an Ocean Shot to develop the science we need to assess the ocean's ability to sequester atmospheric CO2 and understand how the ocean can intentionally and responsibly be modified to increase uptake of atmospheric CO2.

Measuring the Ocean: A Plan for Open Source Underwater Robots and Sensors to make Ocean-Science more Accessible

Author: John Reine

Open-source robots that are simpler in design, cheaper to construct and operate, and carry interoperable and similarly open-source sensors will be more broadly adopted and vastly reduce the barriers to usage and will accelerate the explosion of profiling robots in research, education, and ocean monitoring

The Ocean Decade Show

Authors: Taylor Goelz, R. Tyler Buckingham, Peter Ravella

The Ocean Decade Show is your monthly source of behind-the-scenes information about the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. This podcast will be a guide exploring the history, planning, preparation, and execution of the Ocean Decade.

Net Ecosystem Improvement: An Evidence-Based Approach

Authors: Ronald Thom and Heida Deifenderfer

A proposal to continue increasing the size and natural functions of an ecosystem, or natural components of the ecosystem, alongside continuing human development.

Caribbean Observatories (CARIBO): Ocean Storminess at the Western Boundary and Its Impacts on Shelf/Slope Environment and Ecosystems

Authors: Lisa Beal, Amanda Oehlert, David Die, Hilary Close, Gregor Eberli, Shane Elipot, Rana Fine, Brian Haus, Nick Higgs, Igor Kamenkovich, Villy Kourafalou, Robin Mahon, Claire Paris, Sam Purkis, Diana Udel

Innovative, multi-disciplinary, multi-scale, observations at the inflow and outflow of the Caribbean Seas, one of the ocean's most biologically diverse ecosystems serving 38 countries/dependencies with large inequalities in governance and wealth.

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Transformative Ocean Observing for Hurricane Forecasting, Readiness, and Response in the Caribbean Tropical Storm Corridor

Authors: W. Douglas Wilson, Scott Glenn, Travis Miles, Anthony Knap, Cesar Toro

This proposed UN Decade Ocean Shot activity will build supporting physical and social infrastructure and conduct a long-term, critical-region sampling program using gliders, High-Frequency Radars (HFRs), and developing technologies to provide real-time information resulting in hurricane forecast improvement.

Mining Five Centuries of Climate and Maritime Weather Data from Historic Records

Authors: Caroline C. Ummenhofer and Timothy D. Walker

Building on established protocols from prior data rescue efforts to transfer qualitative information to quantitative weather records, digitizing and extracting historic observations greatly expands current records of maritime weather around the world back to ~1500 CE, feeds into community reanalysis modeling efforts, and offers the opportunity to engage the public through citizen science.

OceanCloud: Transforming Oceanography with a New Approach to Data and Computing

Authors: Ryan Abernathey, Chelle Gentemann, Chiara Lepore

OceanCloud is a new vision for data infrastructure with three pillars:

1. Analysis-ready data shared openly in the cloud

2. On-demand, scalable distributed processing

3. Interactive, data-proximate computing, available to anyone

Remediating Environmental Disasters in the Ocean (REDO)

Authors: Mohammed Hasan, Mark E. Capron, Jim Stewart

Provides many reasons and funding sources for building an ocean observation and construction facility in southern California. This Ocean Shot proposes this facility will assist with: an ocean observation system, DDT sequestration or removal, CO2 sequestration (many ways), offshore geothermal energy hybrid with CO2 mineralization.

Building Ocean Collaborations

Authors: Jon White and Nick Rome

The project's objectives are to sustain ocean observations, identify a funding model for special projects, support pan-regional products, super-regional services, connect ocean programs across sectors, and meet Administration priorities.

DORIS: Deep Ocean Research International Station

Author: Ross Henderson

DORIS will map the Ocean’s dynamic currents and patterns of marine life migration in a systematic manner using multispectral sensors deployed aboard the station, and with extra-vehicular arrays of edge-computing devices, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) arrays, and Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles (UUV).

Transforming Ocean Predictions for Seafood Security and Sustainability (TOPS3)

Authors: Franz Mueter, Seth Danielson, Mike Lomas, William Burt, Tim Essington, Colleen Petrik

Understanding interconnected ecosystem observations to forecast seafood security and sustainability.

Feeding 10 Billion: Contributions from a Marine Circular Bioeconomy

Authors: Celina Scott-Buechler, Arjun Hausner, Chuck Greene

The marine circular bioeconomy will leverage marine aquaculture to sustainably intensify global food production. Nutrient recycling will lead to the co-production of more environmentally favorable, algae-based energy products and materials. Sustainability benefits will include reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater use, arable land demand, eutrophication, and biodiversity loss.

Twilight Zone Observation Network: A Distributed Observation Network for Sustained, Real-time Interrogation of the Ocean's Twilight Zone

Authors: Simon Thorrold, Allan Andrews, Ann Bucklin, Ken Buesseler, Godi Fischer, Annette Govindarajan, Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, Andone Lavery, Joel Llopiz, Larry Madin, Melissa Omand, Philip Renaud, Heidi Sosik, Peter Wiebe, Dana Yoerger, and Gordon Zhang

The ocean's twilight zone is a vast, globe-spanning region of the ocean. Design and deploy a scalable observation network that, when replicated across the global ocean, will provide data to sustainably manage the oceans twilight zone while conserving the ecosystem services that the zone provides.

Auscultating the Oceans: Developing a Marine Stethoscope

Authors: E.C.M. Parsons and OSML IWG

Auscultate is to examine a patient by listening to sounds. Just like doctors need stethoscopes, we need tools to measure ocean health.

The US Ocean Biocode

Authors: Chris Meyer, Emmett Duffy, Allen Collins, Gustav Paulay, Regina Wetzer

The Ocean Biocode seeks to create a comprehensive DNA sequence library for all marine species by 2030. Marine biodiversity is the heart of ecosystems. Advancing DNA sequencing abilities give us the chance to sequence more, and now we need to translate this gathered information to species.

Super Sites for Advancing Understanding of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Boundary Layers

Authors: Carol Anne Clayson, Santha Akella, Stace Beaulieu, Alex Bocconcelli, Bia Villas Boas , Mark Bourassa, Luca Centurioni, Meghan Cronin, James Edson, Chris Fairall, Tom Farrar, Sarah Gille, Juliet Hermes, Seiji Kato, Matthew Mazloff, Frank Muller-Karger, Tony Lee, Christa Marandino, Jaime Palter, Rhys Parfitt, Nadia Pinardi , Laura Riihimaki, Chris Sabine, Hyodae Seo, Shawn Smith, Paul Stackhouse, Adrienne Sutton, Sebastiaan Swart, Elizabeth Thompson, Hiroyuki Tomita, John Toole, Doug Vandemark, Weidong Yu, Christopher Zappa, Chidong Zhang, Dongxiao Zhang, Seth Zippel

We propose the concept of “Super Sites” to provide multi-year suites of measurements at specific locations to simultaneously characterize physical and biogeochemical processes within the coupled boundary layers at high spatial and temporal resolution. Measurements will be made from floating platforms, buoys, towers, and autonomous vehicles, utilizing both in situ and remote sensors.

Data-driven Reef Rehabilitation Using New Biomimicking, Advanced Materials Artificial Reefs

Authors: Emily Higgins, Guyon Brenna, Melody Brenna

IntelliReefs restores and revitalizes reefs through innovative, data-driven solutions, addressing coral reef loss and degradation. IntelliReefs has developed a bio-mimicking, nanotech marine substrate called Oceanite that can be tailored to protect and restore entire degraded coastlines.

Global Youth Advisors for the Decade: Engaging the Greatest Stakeholders in Decision Making

Authors: Emily Berglund and Charley Peebler

Youth Advisory Councils worldwide can put the voices of youth on the global platform with those of our world leaders as we collectively discuss and develop solutions to our ocean's greatest challenges.

The 4Site Pacific Transect Collaborative

Authors: Judith Lemus, Deron Burkepile, Joachim Claudet, Neil Davies, Annaig Le Guen, Alexander Mawyer, Frank Murphy, Alex Wegmann, Nicholas Wolff

Combining scientific and culturally-grounded data, knowledge, values, and perspectives to equitably achieve Sustainable Development Goals and resilient wellbeing of coastal social-ecological systems.

Sustaining Ocean Observations: Communications and Marketing

Authors: Sheri Schwartz, Stephanie Murphy, Kruti Desai, Nick Rome

To better organize, fund, and communicate the value of ocean observing a marketing campaign is needed. Its messaging will need to be multi-layered, both unifying the community and speaking to individual audiences. Strengthening and expanding the network of trusted partners is required for agreeing on and communicating this unified message and addressing governance challenges.

An Ocean Corps for Ocean Science

Authors: Brian K. Arbic, Osinachi Ajoku, Marcia C. Ford, Madeline Foster-Martinez, Winn Johnson, Edem Mahu, Paige E. Martin, Tashiana Osborne, Katherine Roche, Alexis Valauri-Orton

Forming collaborations between US scientists and scientists in under-resourced countries can help address the unequal distribution of ocean science infrastructure worldwide. Just as the Peace Corps inspired young Americans, Ocean Corps will inspire US oceanographers to engage the world.

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FantaSEAS Project: Incorporating Inspiring Ocean Science in the Popular Media

Authors: Ashley Scarlett, Andrew Kornblatt, E.C.M. Parsons

Promoting ocean literacy and diversity in ocean science, by engaging industries and the general public through art, television, and literature.

Unlocking the secrets of the evolving Central Arctic Ocean Ecosystem: A foundation for successful conservation and management

Authors: Carin J. Ashjian, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, and Lee W. Cooper

The Central Arctic Ocean is changing as fast as any other region, but understanding of the ecosystem is inadequate for effective protection, conservation, and management. A comprehensive expeditionary and autonomous approach will help quantify uncertain biological characteristics and rates over pan-Arctic spatial and temporal scales. This need is particularly timely given the recent international ratification of the "International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean," which has now come in to force. Meeting the challenges of the Agreement will require multiple nations and diverse stakeholders, including Indigenous coastal communities, to work together.

Marine Plastics Research Coordination and Monitoring Network (MP-Net)

Authors: Mark Hahn, Neel Aluru, Beckett Colson, Michelle DiBenedetto, Scott Gallager, Mary Gaylord, Houshuo Jiang, Hauke Kite-Powell, Ken Kostel, Larry Madin, Paul Matthias, Anna Michel, Rob Munier, Jordan Pitt, Larry Pratt, Chris Reddy, John Stegeman, Collin Ward

Pollution of the oceans by plastics, especially microplastics, is a 'wicked problem' whose solutions will require cross-disciplinary collaboration and multi-stakeholder engagement. The mission of the proposed Marine Microplastics Research Coordination and Monitoring Network (MP-Net) is two-fold: (i) to promote fundamental, solutions-oriented understanding of plastic life-cycles and impacts, and (ii) to enable multi-level, real-time, and continuous observation and monitoring of plastics in the ocean. A Global Marine Plastics Database will compile data on ocean plastics and provide open and equitable access to information about ocean plastics for use in research and mitigation efforts.

Revising the Marine carbon Cycle -Introducing the Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Reactivity Continuum Concept

Authors: Michael Gonsior, Leanne Powers

Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the least understood and arguably most dynamic carbon pool on Earth. We postulate that the current age estimates for deep ocean DOM of 5,000-6,000 years are wrong and that the turnover of this large carbon pool may only be 100's but not 1000's of years. If this hypothesis is true, the ocean might not sequester carbon in the way we currently assume it. Defining the marine DOM reactivity continuum by structurally elucidating organic molecules that accumulate in the deep ocean and to determining their half-life will improve DOM and global carbon cycle models.

Advancing Ocean Science through Open Science and Software on the Cloud

Authors: Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer and Andrea McCurdy

Seek to advance community awareness and practice around open science by taking advantage of innovative development tools and environments that will better enable science by decreasing barriers to collaborations, reproducibility, interdisciplinary research. For data, this would mark a shift from the central repository model to the central service model, enabling data-proximate computing.

Developing Thermally Tolerant Kelp Broodstock to ensure the Global Persistence of Kelp Mariculture in Response to Ocean Change

Authors: Schery Umanzor, Jose Sandoval Gil, Amanda Kelley, Jose Zertuche-Gonzalez

Transformative work with a holistic approach in which stress memory is used to revitalize wild kelp forests and support the increasing mariculture industry.

Persistent Mobile Ocean Observing: Marine Vehicle Highways

Authors: Dana Manalang, William Wilcock, Kendra Daly

Global infrastructure for Ocean and Planetary Health Monitoring by a fleet of marine vehicles compatible with a standard interface and observe difficult-to-predict transient events that drive ocean processes not accessible to fixed instrumentation. MVH is an opportunity for global partnerships and open to any vehicle developer.

Science Enables Abundant Food (SEAFood) with Healthy Oceans

Authors: Mark E. Capron, Mohammed Hasan, Jim Stewart, Don Piper

Building SEAFood lifeboat ecosystems that will be able to survive changing ocean temperature and chemistry. Using nutrients from people and agriculture runoff, the effective use of all nutrients could grow 1 billion tons of SEAFood a year.

Measuring the Pulse of Earth's Global Ocean

Authors: R. Dziak, E.C.M. Parsons, and OSML IWG

We plan to deploy a unique, deep-ocean capable hydrophone-lander system at each of these deep-sea sites (>7k meters) Our goal is to make the first, simultaneous measurement of baseline ocean sound levels in what should be the quietest (i.e., lacking human-made noise) locations on Earth.

Proteus: The International Space Station of the Ocean

Authors: Alix Ford and Fabien Cousteau

The first state-of-the-art modular ocean habitat and lab facility. Proteus is envisioned as the ocean's "International Space Station" - the largest and most technologically advanced marine station ever built, a platform for global collaboration to advance science and to inspire and engage the public.

Butterfly: Revealing the Ocean's Impact on Our Weather and Climate

Authors: Chelle Gentemann, Carol Anne Clayson, Tony Lee, Shannon Brown, Mark Bourassa, Tom Farrar, Sarah Gille, Kelly Lombardo, Rhys Parfitt, Hyodae Seo, Aneesh Subramanian

A NASA Earth Venture Mission - EVM3 - Proposed Mission. EVMs are science-driven, competitively selected, low-cost satellite missions.

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Ocean Technology Field Academy

Authors: Hans VanSumeran, Ed Bailey, Jason Slade, Liesl Hotaling

The Ocean Technology Field Academy will support ocean-focused communities and advance ocean understanding by providing competency-driven micro-credentials representing a participant's ability to exploit, enhance and promote sensors, sensor platforms, sensor networks, crewed and uncrewed underwater vehicles, sonar systems, and process data.

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Plant a Million Corals

Authors: David E. Vaughan and Dee Dee Vaughan

The global coral reef crisis requires a scalable solution for communities of varied economies. Plant a Million Corals is an effort to provide affordable access to immediate operations of coral restoration technology.

CalWave's mission is to unlock the vast and steady carbon-free power from ocean waves

Authors: Marcus Lehmann

CalWave’s mission is to unlock the vast and steady carbon-free power from ocean waves. CalWave is bringing superior power and monitoring technology to market with a global reach. Our proprietary wave energy converter technology achieves high performance while surviving storms and extreme conditions.

Forward-Looking Decision Making in Fisheries in the Face of Climate Change

Authors: Lisa Kerr, Andrew Pershing, Katherine Mills, Kanae Tokunaga, Vincent Saba, Jon Hare, Carla Gomes, Enrique Curchitser, John Wiedenmann, Malin Pinsky, Kevin St. Martin

Bringing together a transdisciplinary team to transform data, capacity for predictive modeling, and the effectiveness of fisheries decision making. This team will work closely with stakeholders to design products that address key questions and help them make forward-looking climate-informed decisions.

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Authors: Christopher E. Ordoñez, John A. Barth

An existing network of established time series transects and areas collecting long-term data sets. The UN should build on the success of BOON and establish a BOON for the Global South. Increased observation coverage will improve understanding of the Ocean-Climate System.

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Fostering a Network for Cooperative Science Research on Commercial Ships (Science RoCS)

Authors: Kerry Strom, Leah Trafford McRaven, Magdalena Andres, Alison Macdonald, Laura Stolp, Jules Hummon, Tom Rossby, and Julian Herndon

Science RoCS envisions a future where scientific data collection on commercial ships is the new industry standard, providing regular and repeat measurements across oceans, including remote regions, on scales not otherwise accessible to the scientific community and society at large.

Arctic Shelves: Critical Environments in Flux

Authors: Kristin Meyer-Kaiser, Samuel Laney

Arctic Seafloor Observatory Program: A new paradigm for ocean observing in a critical region. This concept supports the development of new approaches to sustain long-term seafloor observatories suitable for pan-Artic shelf and ecosystem research.

Long-Term, Global Seafloor Seismic, Acoustic and Geodetic Network

Authors: John Orcutt, Jon Berger, Monica Kohler

Establishment and maintenance of autonomous ships to collect and send data, including seafloor mapping, ocean sampling, and seafloor system maintenance ashore.

OceanObs Living Action Plan

Authors: Kruti Desai, Stephanie Murphy, Nick Rome, Sheri Schwartz

The OceanObs Living Action Plan is a strategy that changes daily. Through this work, we hope to address gaps in the ocean observations community, promote accountability, and ensure we all act as stewards of the ocean. The objective is to maintain this project for years and allow the ocean observations community to prosper through it.

Nature-Based Nutrient Reduction for Seagrass Restoration

Author: Carl Persson

A three-pillar solution to restore seagrass by addressing natural process bottleneck in shallow waters (<80 meters) and issues with nitrogen levels for seagrass growth. The solutions offer the steps needed to clear a healthy path for new seagrass seedings.

Atuin - The Self-Contained Ocean Science and Monitoring Platform

Author: Andrew Kornblatt

The most robust ocean science and monitoring stations. Combining already existing technologies into unified floating research and ocean monitoring platforms.

Ocean Arc: An Ocean Shot for the Arctic

Authors: Heather Tabisola, Calvin Mordy, Brian Skerry, Chris Meinig

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change. Combining scientific research, new imaging technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and underwater photography, we’ll share near to real-time changes of biodiversity in the Arctic and highlight these rapidly changing and unique environments.

COVERAGE: Next Generation Data Service Infrastructure for a Digitally Integrated Ocean Observing System in Support of Marine Science and Ecosystem Management

Authors: Vardis Tsontos, E. Lindstrom, Jorge Vazquez, Thomas Huang, Mike Chin, Jospeh Jacob, Joe Roberts, Flynn Platt

Coordinated international, multi-agency effort seeking to implement the next generation value-added data service infrastructure necessary to power a digitally integrated ocean observing system.

Small Islands, Big Impact

Authors: Fiorenza Micheli, Natalie Arnoldi, Louw Claassens, Collin Closek, Robert Dunbar, Caroline Ferguson, Yimnang Golbuu, Eric Hartge, Staci Leiws, Stephen Monismith, Robert Richmond, Colette Wabnitz

Global declines in ocean health combined with the upheaval of COVID-19 are unraveling Pacific Island states' social, economic, and cultural fabric. This concept is designed to co-develop science innovation and ocean solutions that foster crisis readiness and are scalable to multiple geographies.

Great Global Fish Count by DNA

Authors: Jesse H. Ausubel and Mark Y. Stoeckle

Information on species diversity & abundance from DNA in 1 liter of water is comparable to information from 66 million liters trawled by a net. Time for the Great Global Fish Count! A project to collect data on millions of species through sediments in water.

Carbon Sequestration via Drilling-Promoted Seawater-Rock Interactions

Author: Craig Lundstrom

Finding effective methods to limit the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 through sequestration encouraged by seawater-rock interactions.

BioGeoSCAPES: Ocean Metabolism and Nutrient Cycles on a Changing Planet

Authors: Mak Saito, Heather Benway, Naomi Levine, Adrian Marchetti, Alyson Santoro, Ben Twining

BioGeoSCAPES will improve our understanding of ocean metabolism and its interaction with nutrient cycling. Through an approach built on international collaboration, BioGeoSCAPES strives to provide significant and transformative advances in our knowledge at multiple spaces and time scales that will contribute to understanding the oceans and their role in influencing climate on a changing planet.

Global Ocean and Human Health Program

Authors: John Stegeman, Donald Anderson, Richard Camilli, John Farrington, Mark Hahn, Katherine Hubbard, Ambrose Jearld, and Di Jin

This Ocean Shot addresses the need for an international program to meet the challenges at the intersection of ocean health and human health. A Global Ocean and Human Health (GOHH) Program would build a transformative network encompassing essential research and engineering, policy, and economic concerns relevant to ocean and human health in the U.S. and globally.

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The Estuarine Ecological Knowledge Network (EEKN): The View from SE Louisiana and Future Prospects

Authors: Grant S. McCall, Russell Greaves, Robert Hitchcock, Brian Ostahowski Partners: Diego Figueroa, Thong Ahn Tran, Doru BÄƒnÄƒduc, Nelson Fontoura

Increase communication between coastal community members, scientists, and policymakers in Pilot Project Sites.

Why Paleoceanographic Observations are Needed to Improve Future Climate Projections

Authors: Geoffrey Gebbie, Delia Oppo, Caroline Ummenhofer, and Wanyi Lu

Ocean heat uptake is an important determinant of the earth's climate sensitivity to atmospheric carbon dioxide. A proposal about breaking the impasse in improving climate sensitivity estimates by considering instrumental and proxy evidence simultaneously.

Measuring Global Mean Sea Level Changes With Surface Drifting Buoys

Authors: Shane Elipot, Josh Willis, Rick Lumpkin, Luca Centurioni, Bruce Haines

We propose to implement a new ocean observing system for monitoring regional and global-mean sea-level rise. This system with consist of a global array of thousands of GPS-driven water-following drifting buoys which will continuously record their geographical positions and the sea levels they ride on.

A Call for Health Diagnostics to Preserve Coral Reefs

Authors: Colleen Hansel and Amy Apprill

A set of health diagnostics based on an emerging understanding of the biochemistry of coral reef ecosystems would help mitigate future reef decline and improve remediation efforts of currently compromised reefs by identifying early-stage stress and health decline in corals and other reef organisms.

A Sensor Network for Mixing at the Ocean's Bottom Boundary

Authors: Kurt Polzin, Matthew Alford, Cynthia Bluteau, Annalisa Bracco, Kathleen Donohue, Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Joe Kuehl, Jim Ledwell, Sonya Legg, David Marshall, Trevor McDougall, Marie-Jose Messias, Ruth Musgrave, Alberto Naveira Garabato, Jonathan Nash, Keith Nicholls, Al Plueddemann, Steve Rintoul, Hesam Sehelipour, Vitelii Sheremet, John Taylor, Fred Thwaites, John Trowbridge, Martin Visbeck, A.J. Williams III, Zhankun Wang

A community-level project gathering observationalists, turbulence modelers, and general circulation model users and builders. The project core will be the development of a sensor network to estimate momentum and buoyancy fluxes within the planetary boundary layer, stress-driven drag at the bottom boundary, and energy conversion rates associated with the flow over topography.

Integrated Ocean Observing Across the Northwest Atlantic

Authors: Jake Kritzer and Shayla Fitzsimmons

We envision an interconnected system to track oceanographic and ecological changes from the Arctic to the Gulf of Maine, integrating state-of-the-art technologies, Indigenous knowledge, and citizen science to better understand the rapidly changing Northwest Atlantic.

The Coral Reef Sentinels: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health

Authors: David I. Kline, Alex Dehgan, Paul Bunje, Shah Selbe, Ved Chirayath, Oscar Pizarro, Matthieu Leray, Sean Connolly, Pim Bongaerts, Tali Treibitz, Oren Levy, Ezri Tarazi, David Kriegman, Andreas Andersson, Melanie Mcfield, Emmett Duffy, Chad Gallinat, Sam Kelly, Henrik Cox

Working alongside NASA AMES and a large international team, this project focuses on more efficient coral reef imaging and analyses. Satellite and drone remote sensing abilities, as well as imaging technology, can be used to get more accurate information about corals, more quickly.

Observing the Oceans Acoustically

Authors: Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Bruce M. Howe, Eric Rehm, Hanne Sagen, Peter F. Worcester, Georgios Haralabus

Our vision is a global-spanning multi-purpose ocean acoustic network in direct analogy with GPS required to transform use and observation of the world below the ocean surface. A small number of judiciously-placed low-frequency acoustic sources transmitting to globally distributed receivers enable monitoring of acoustic geo-positioning, ocean measurements, and ocean sound time series.

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Future Fisheries in a Changing World

Authors: Katherine Mills, Lisa Kerr, David Reidmiller, Kanae Tokunaga

Marine fisheries provide food, income, jobs, and cultural identity for millions of people. Future fisheries face multiple stressors, including climate change. Scientific advances integrating multiple dimensions will be needed to devise effective strategies for climate-resilient fisheries.

Challenger 150 - A Decade to Study Deep-Sea Life

Authors: Erik Cordes, Chris German, Lisa Levin, Craig McClain, Rosanna Milligan, Austin Gallagher, and the Challenger150 global program

At the heart of the Challenger-150 Program is the development of deep ocean expertise, particularly in economically developing nations, in order to achieve a global generation of stewards working together to maintain the integrity of deep-ocean ecosystems. Through the development of new technologies and the expansion of observations, we will advance understanding of the diversity, distribution, and function of deep-ocean biota; and to use this new knowledge to educate, inspire, and promote sustainable use of the deep ocean. Challenger 150 is an IOC endorsed UN Ocean Decade Action and part of the Deep Sea Research and Management Community of Practice.

This concept was accepted and presented during the February 2021 Ocean Decade: U.S. Launch Meeting under the title Challenger150: A Global Survey of Deep Sea Ecosystems to Inform Sustainable Management. Revised content was approved and made publicly available in February 2022. View the updated Ocean-Shot.

Envisioning an Interconnected Ocean: Understanding the Links Between Geological Ocean Structure and Coastal Communities in the Pacific

Authors: Megan Lubetkin, Sarah Gaines, Nicole Raineult

The Ocean Explorations Trust (OET) will conduct scientific expeditions to better understand the ocean through seafloor mapping and ocean exploration. OET seeks to collaborate with local communities to reveal the structural significance and interconnected nature of oceanic features, making a link to the livelihoods of Pacific islanders.

Meeting Protein & Energy Needs for 10 Billion People While Restoring Oceans

Authors: Scott Lindell and Hauke Kite-Powell

Shellfish and seaweed farming provide resources, opportunities, and solutions to address a wide range of seemingly intractable global problems. Properly placed and managed, aquaculture operations can be restorative to ocean environments, counter climate change, and relieve pressure to farm sensitive terrestrial environments.

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FathomNet: Exploring Our Ocean Using Artificial Intelligence

Authors: Kakani Katija, Megan Cromwell, Denley Delaney, Ben Woodward, Katy Croff Bell

The adoption of AI in the ocean is limited by the availability of curated data, particularly underwater imagery and video, to train algorithms. FathomNET seeks to automate the processing of underwater imagery and video, to fully explore and discover our ocean.

Near Real-Time Assessment of Ocean Ecosystem Health Through Remote Sensing of Collective Behavior in Animal Colonies

Authors: Daniel P Zitterbart, Ben Fabry, Celine Le Bohec

We propose to expand the scope of ecosystem remote sensing, from its current focus on large-scale long-term dynamics to include remote sensing of animal movements (without biologging) and thus advance decoding of wildlife- and ecosystem-health.

The TeleConnected Reef

Authors: Anne Cohen, Weifeng Zhang, Michael Fox, Nathaniel Mollica, Steven Lentz, Andrew Ashton, Magdelena Andres, James Bellingham, Glenn Garwakawiez, Weifu Guo, Ying-Tsong Lin, Simon Thorrold

Coral reefs are the tropics' most valuable ecosystem. Lack of information about the changing physical and biogeochemical reef environment is a major obstacle to effective efforts. Universal access to real-time and archived model output will enhance predictive capabilities and early warning systems, and transform efforts to manage, conserve, and restore these critical ocean ecosystems in the 21st century.

Battery-free Ocean Internet-of-Thing (IoT)

Authors: Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodrigues, Walleed Akbar, and Fadel Adib

The Ocean IoT would allow us to monitor aquaculture in realtime, optimize feeding, and other applications. This project seeks to build an underwater IoT using a new backscatter approach, which works better underwater than the traditional approach.

Southern Ocean Storms - Zephyr

Authors: Joellen Russell, David Long; Nicole Lovenduski; Ernesto Rodriguez

We propose a carefully planned addition to the scatterometer constellation to increase the frequency of observations and better constrain high winds. More observations, in conjunction with higher spatial resolution, will reduce the uncertainty in estimates of the global carbon and heat budgets.

SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Ocean and Earth

Authors: Bruce Howe, Christopher Barnes, David Meldrum, and Joint Task Force for SMART Cables

SMART Cables' vision is to observe the oceans and Earth with a planetary-scale network of sensor-enabled submarine telecommunications cables to support climate, ocean circulation, sea-level monitoring, and tsunami and earthquake early warning and disaster risk reduction.

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Building a Great Lakes Basemap to Serve the Blue Economy

Authors: Tim Kearns, Kelli Paige, Linden Brinks, Shelby Brunner

The Great Lakes have never been mapped in detail. Maps you see of the Great Lakes bathymetry (shape and depth of the lake floor) are created using low-density and sometimes decades-old data. High-density data is critical for effective management, research, and innovation, particularly under mounting climate change threats and as the blue economy grows.

TRITON: A Social Media Network for the Ocean

Authors: Kristen Yarincik, Melissa Brodeur, Amanda Holloway, Sheri Schwartz, Cassandra Wilson

A different, unified approach to outreach and communication: TRITON, a social media platform. The platform will serve as a one-stop-shop for information about the ocean and society, a place where scientists and organizations can share and amplify science-based information and for dissemination of original content that connects people to the ocean through the lens of their own community experiences.

Improved Value of the Observing System through Integrated Satellite and in situ Design

Authors: Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer and Andrea McCurdy

Over the decade this work will demonstrate the value of sustained remotely sensed data to the global ocean observing system and how uncertainties can be overcome through better-informed system design.

Sustained, Open Access, In-situ, Global Wave Observations for Science and Society

Authors: Luca Centurioni, Sidney Thurston, Theresa Paluszkiewicz

We propose to leverage the NOAA-funded Global Drifter Program (GDP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to implement a global array of directional wave spectral drifters (DWSD). Our approach is designed to improve air-sea interaction science and climate assessment. In-situ global wave observations are essential to progress in coupling oceanography, meteorology, and climate science.

Seascape Genomics of North Pacific Forage Fishes

Authors: Savannah LaBua, Anna Rix, Laura Timm, Andres Lopez

We will use a seascape genomics approach to integrate information from multiple disciplines to address large-scale ecosystem and population dynamics as climate conditions continue to change.

Just, Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive (JEDI) Aquanautics: Democratizing Innovation in the Networked Blue Economy

Authors: Winslow Burleson, Michael Lombardi, and Danielle Harlow

JEDI Aquanautics will fuse the world's most powerful experiential supercomputer, the NSF Holodeck, with Ocean Space Habitat'sSM transformative capabilities--creating a world-class sociotechnical convergence catalyst for the Networked Blue Economy (NBE). JEDI "Inventioneering" will foster open-access passion-based convergence research, education, and innovation to inspire and train the next generation of lifelong learners and innovators. The overarching project vision is to lay the foundations of a vibrant JEDI Aquanautics ecosystem across academia, industry, government, public and private organizations, diverse multi-stakeholder communities and end-users. Significantly increasing human engagement with ocean environments, JEDI Aquanautics will deliver profound benefits throughout the global NBE.

FISH-TAMB for a healthier ocean: A novel, scalable tool by Syntrophia to sustainably harness microbial power and supercharge bioindustrial processes

Authors: Rachel L. Harris, Nicholas Lyons, Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb

Harnessing the power of microbial communities will be the cornerstone of future innovations in healthier oceans and climate change monitoring. FISH-TAMB (U.S. patent 63/093,347) monitors microbial metabolism in real time at single cell resolution. Harnessing the full metabolic potential of microbes can sustainably support a growing population – by mitigating hazardous pollutants, and even reclaiming waste as raw materials for new production. These processes will help to reduce industrial pollutants that contaminate the ocean and destabilize our climate and meet the goals of the ocean decade.

Exploring Worlds within Worlds

Authors: Tristan Horner

A call to assemble a team of 'explorers' to constrain the role of microscopic marine particles in mediating critical chemical transformations in expanding oxygen-minimum zones.

State of the Art, Globally Ranging Drilling Vessel in Support of Scientific Ocean Drilling

Authors: Marta Torres, Carl Brenner, Clive Neal, Angela Slagle and Geoff Wheat

Integrated and multidisciplinary subseafloor research is a central to understanding the major connections among Earth system components and their fundamental relevance to natural and human-caused challenges facing society. Advances available in modern scientific ocean drilling technologies, data management, and analytical capabilities will empower academic and industrial partnerships to make transformative advances in Earth science research using a new state of the art, globally ranging drilling vessel

U.S. Offshore Wind Development and Artificial Reefs Artificial Reef Jacket and Ecosystem Restoration

Authors: Ashley Schrader, Emily Higgins, Melody Brenna, Laura Trilles

Offshore wind farm (OWF) development is gaining traction in the United States. We seek to pair this initiative with an ecosystem-based management approach that prioritizes ecosystem restoration. We propose the application of our artificial reef jacket structure, which can be customized to support the specific habitat needs of the surrounding marine environment. This application may accelerate ecological response and therefore ecosystem restoration while amplifying and diversifying restoration outcomes. Stronger outcomes provide economic benefits by increasing OWF's carbon offset, enhancing fisheries, and as a habitat banking or nature-based offset solution for clients; all contributing to coastal communities and the ocean economy.

Chasing Unicorns: Exploring the most remote corners of the Pacific Ocean for the Elusive Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale

Authors: Cynthia Matzke, Robert Fitzgeralrd, Tamara Kahn, Dominique Barnes, Debi Kilb

Spiral Pacific is on a mission to be the first scientists to confirm the existence of Ginkgo-toothed beaked whales in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ginkgodens are an extremely rare species of whale with most information collected from dead specimens washed ashore. Our expedition will create marine science history and foster change by producing compelling and effective media that will engage students, policy makers, scientists and innovators to create sustainable solutions to plastic pollution, marine stewardship, and invasive species. Additionally, the expedition will create a data pool for scientists, educators and students worldwide expanding today's limited information on the Ginkgodens.

Integrating Ocean Observing Ocean Shots

Authors: Henry Ruhl, Nick Rome, and Josie Quintrell

A scalable, coordinated and integrated approach will be needed to harness the vast potential of the large number of ocean observing initiatives being scoped and proposed to contribute to the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, both in the US and internationally. However, there is not yet an inclusive Collective Impact Organization (CIO) that ties such elements together from individual observers to academia, state, federal and tribal agencies, industry and non-governmental bodies to harmonize communications, partnerships, and fundraising. Here we describe how a CIO could manage the coordination of those Ocean Shots with observing as a challenge.

An INFOstructure solution to the socio-ecological hazards of coastal flood control infrastructure

Authors: Leila J. Hamdan, Leslie Acton, Kelly M. Darnell, M. Zachary Darnell and Luke Fairbanks

Our Ocean Shot concept is towards creating an information structure (Info-structure) to support decision making surrounding the use of engineering infrastructure for flood hazards in coastal areas. Often, use of such infrastructure occurs in the absence of socio-ecological data about coastal ecosystems and communities and result in unforeseen and multifaceted coastal disasters. The concept will be framed around case studies in the U.S. Gulf South and The Netherlands that highlight the increasing and changing use of flood control structures in response to climate impacts. The concept is scalable other ecosystems and geographies facing climate change related flooding.

Seafloor Hydrostatic Pressure-Assisted Green Hydrogen Production and Storage by Offshore Wind and Ocean Energy

Author: Elias Greenbaum

GTA is an R&D technology company focused on the development of resilient, EMP-hardened gigawatt subsea hydrogen grids for large-scale reduction of greenhouse gases. Our innovation is development of pressure-balanced electrolyzers, fabricated mostly from polyethylene, that are anchored at the seafloor. With the exception of cleaning external marine growth, the electrolyzers will rarely require maintenance because (1) they have no moving parts; (2) polyethylene, the electrolyzer housing, has excellent stability in seawater; (3) alkaline electrolyzers rarely need servicing. GTA electrolyzers are fail-safe from subfreezing weather. They do not need backup or standby power to address periods of unscheduled downtime during subfreezing weather. The most common cause of unscheduled downtime is unfavorable weather conditions that prevent power generation by the wind turbine generator. GTA's value proposition is that, contrary to competing approaches, large power transformers, offshore platforms, and high voltage cables are eliminated. These are large CAPEX and OPEX items. Using GTA's subsea electrolyzers, the hydrogen is produced and stored safely at the sea floor, away from population centers, via a network of hydrogen pipelines. Transport of energy as hydrogen in pipelines is eight times less expensive than transport of energy as electricity in metal cables.

Revolutionizing Coastal Ocean Research through a Novel Share Model for the Long-term Sustainability of Humanity

Author: Robinson Fulweiler, Peter Girguis, Zara Mirmalek

We propose a bold vision for conducting ocean science. While the coastal ocean is essential to the well-being and long-term sustainability of humanity, our scientific knowledge on coastal ecosystems falls woefully short. We are calling for a new model that addresses social, economic, political, and logistical factors that impede participation in coastal ocean science through instruments and community relationships. Our new model will build on familiar tenets of the share economy developed to respond to the needs of coastal ocean research and science.

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