Oceans have long represented a frontier of opportunity for exploration, scientific understanding, commerce, and trade for the United States. The transformative technologies of the fourth industrial revolution – artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, IoT, biotechnology, advanced materials – are expected to recondition traditional ocean-based industries and enable the growth of new markets prioritizing sustainability. At the nexus of unprecedented environmental change and rapid technology innovation, how should the United States position itself as a leader in the global ocean economy? This meeting of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable considered the importance of cross-sector collaboration and the opportunities for U.S. leadership in the context of a changing ocean and a changing ocean economy.
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Susan Avery, President Emerita at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GROWTH OF THE U.S. OCEAN ECONOMY
RDML Tim Gallaudet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
SCIENCE OF A CHANGING OCEAN
Ko Barrett, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Programs and Administration for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
INNOVATION IN MARINE INDUSTRIES
James Bellingham, Director of the Center for Marine Robotics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joshua Berger, Governor's Maritime Sector Lead and Associate Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce
Megan Davis, Research Professor in the Aquaculture and Stock Enhancement Program at Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
William Gerwick, Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
THE CHANGING RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT OF THE ARCTIC
Victoria Herrmann, President and Managing Director of the Arctic Institute
TRANSFORMATIONS OF COASTAL REGIONS AND COMMUNITIES
Heida Diefenderfer, Earth Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
RADM Jon White, CEO and President of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership