Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Objectives:
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Develop new interdisciplinary approaches to collaborate around marine issues
Build capabilities in data-intensive science and services, such as OOI
Enable new capabilities and facilities to support access to the sea
Establish new partnerships
Create “incubator” spaces
Unique approaches to experiential learning around marine issues
Develop international partnerships related to marine studies research and policies
Plan of Action:
1) Identify capabilities and capacities among constituents
2) Brainstorm about research directions and opportunities
3) Identify gaps and needs, and set priorities
What is the vision for research within the MSI?
Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Sustainability, The Future We Want and a Core Principle of OSU
and the MSI
Whether it is safe, sustainable seafood, clean water and energy, or access to ocean
related recreation and cultural resources, OSU and the research endeavor at MSI are
committed to defining and understanding the complex questions necessary to
ensure a sustainable future for Oregonians and our ocean resources.
Convergence, An Approach to Emergent Research Themes for the
OSU MSI
Convergence integrates knowledge, tools, and ways of thinking from life and
health sciences, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences,
engineering disciplines, and beyond to form a comprehensive synthetic
framework for tackling scientific and societal challenges that exist at the
interfaces of multiple fields.
Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS TO THE OCEAN: A STEWARDSHIP OF PLACE IN
OREGON
Water connects the land to ocean from the fresh rain and snow in the mountains
carrying materials downstream, through the flowing creeks and rivers, to the
oscillating estuaries and eventually to the salty coastal ocean; water completes this
cycle continually along the Oregon coast.
Major Research Themes
• Integrated Marine Systems Science
• Reliance on the Sea
• Global Change and Resilient Coastal Communities
Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Assets and Areas of Distinction
There are lots, look online and talk to your colleagues
(outside your division).
Cluster #2
Environmental and Human Health,
Anthropologist, Community
Development, Food Security/Ecology
Cluster #1
Tourism, Aquaculture, Social Scientist,
Fisheries/Stock Assessment
Cluster #1
Metocean dynamics
Morphodynamic modeling
Remote Sensing
Eco-informatics
Modeling of climate change
Cluster #2
Spatial Planner,
Governance, Hazards
Educator, Maritime
Studies
Reliance on the
sea
Coastal
resiliency and
global chance
Cluster #1
Nearshore Biological, Physical,
Acoustics, Optics, Modeler
Understanding
marine
systems
Cluster #2
Toxicology, Ocean Health,
Microbial Ecology,
Environmental Chemistry
Cluster #3
Paleo, Archeo, Geoarcheo,
Anthropologist
Cross-Cutting Themes
Cluster #1
Transdisciplinary Learning, Environmental
Education, Citizen Science Scholarship,
Process and outcome evaluation
Cluster #2
Bioinformatics, Uncertainty, Big Data,
Spatio-temporal Statistics