LEADS: Lisa Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Alan Leonardi, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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The deep ocean (below 200 m) covers over half of the planet and is increasingly recognized as critical in global heat, carbon sequestration and climate dynamics, a receptacle for contaminants and debris, as well as replete with living and non-living resources for society. Due to high pressure and its remoteness, as well as jurisdictional and governance challenges, observing in the deep ocean entails its own unique requirements. As such the deep ocean transcends the many Ocean Obs 19 themes: climate change, ecosystem health, food and energy, pollution, blue economy, observing technology innovation, data innovation, modeling challenges, and a need for community building and system integration.
Goals: This session will discuss emergence of key observing needs in the deep ocean with a goal offostering discussion among the very broad group of stakeholders with deep-ocean interests. We explore how to integrate observing programs, data, and models, to address societal needs of the 21st century.
Key questions are:
- How can we innovate and facilitate the integrated collection and analysis of physics, geology, biogeochemistry and biology observations?
- How can we bring together the communities of industry, technology, science and conservation to fill deep-ocean data gaps?
- How can we address the diverse coordination, management and capacity development needs of the highly distributed observing community?
- How can technologies to conduct deep sea observations locally be scaled up to global-scale, multidisciplinary observing networks?
- What is required to improve rapid data sharing and access across disciplines and countries?
After a brief introduction to the session, panelists will address these questions in 5 min. flash talks, making specific deep observing recommendations. These presentations will be followed by a half hour of audience questions, feedback and contributions. Our goal is to generate a series of recommendations for a post-Obs’19 task team and for the Decade for Ocean Science. This session will highlight a part of the ocean that is often overlooked or not well considered. We encourage all with an interest in the deep ocean to participate.