| 3 New Tools and Views in a Changing Ocean
To address the prospect of a changing ocean, together with
increasing anthropogenic pressure, new techniques are
emerging by which to quantify historical ranges of variability
in marine environments, assess the current state of the
world’s oceans, and forecast changes and their ecological
impacts into the future.
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3.1 Observations of Change: Going Operational
This topic will focus on the capabilities and coordination
of ocean-observing systems, including surface and
subsurface buoys, ship surveys, gliders, and satellite-based
measurements, as well as examples where physical,
biogeochemical, or biological ocean observation data
have been used in forecasting, management, or other
operational products.
3.2 Downscaling Global Change for Regional Oceans
This session will focus on the development, calibration,
and application of downscaled models and their use in
forecasting physical and biological change in marine
systems in an attempt to capture increasingly fine-scale
patterns of ocean variability.
3.3 Emerging Molecular Techniques
This session will address molecular techniques used to
evaluate climate-driven changes in the genetic, metabolic,
and biochemical properties of populations, species, and
communities of marine organisms. |
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