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The Role of Research and Technology in the Changing Ocean Economy: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
The Role of Research and Technology in the Changing Ocean Economy: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Not all aspects of marine research and technology could be discussed in the limited time frame of the workshop, but the dialogue identified a broad range of emerging technologies that will impact the changing ocean economy. Susan Avery, President Emerita at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, delivered the workshop's keynote address.
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Gallaudet noted that NOAA has identified the blue economy -- defined in this case as advancing the sustainable use of resources from oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes -- as a priority issue. The agency's focus on the blue economy includes five key areas: seafood production; tourism and recreation; ocean exploration; marine transportation; and coastal resil ience (see Figure 1)
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Addressing the significant challenge of marine debris is also of concern, which Gallaudet mentioned is a core component of the bipartisan Save Ours Seas Act, which awards an innovation prize for research in response to the issue and improves preventative waste management infrastructure. NOAA also has a focus on supporting coastal resilience through coastal management activities, including increasing and strengthening communities' ability to withstand coastal flooding.
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Communities that depend highly on seafood may face risks to nutritional health and food security. Small island developing states are home to 65 million people, and 680 million people live in low-lying coastal zones, and are vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal flooding.
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These partnerships are critical to addressing production efficiency, regulatory streamlining and marine spatial planning, ecosystem services and adaptive strategies, and other key issues. 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, began by discussing the important contribution that oceans make to pharmaceuticals, particularly given the abundance of natural products in drugs over the past several decades.
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Arctic marine fish and wildlife habitats, species distributions, and food webs, all of which are important to Arctic residents, are increasingly affected by retreating and thinning Arctic summer sea ice, increasing temperatures, and ocean acidification. Continued warming will accelerate related ecosystem alternations in ways that are difficult to predict, making adaptation more challenging.
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Diefenderfer stated that there are many types of tidal wetlands worldwide such as mangroves and other coastal forests, marshes, and seagrasses that are highly valuable from an economic perspective. Coastal wetlands make up only about 15 percent of natural wetland area globally but deliver an estimated $20.4 trillion a year in economic return, which amounts to 43 percent of the total global ecosystem services from all types of natural wetlands.
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"Now is the time for our nation to use leadership from ocean science and technologists to inform a strategic plan for moving forward." White also reiterated that diversity in ocean-related fields of study and across marine industries is critically needed, particularly in light of rising sea level. "We have a great opportunity with younger generations to reexamine how to effect change in our coastal communities -- will we control this change, or will we be controlled by it?
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PLANNING COMMITTEE: Anton Post, Florida Atlantic University; James Bellingham, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Kelly Sullivan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory STAFF: Susan Sauer Sloan, Director, GUIRR; Megan Nicholson, Program Officer; Lillian Andrews, Senior Program Assistant; Clara Savage, Senior Finance Business Partner; and Cyril Lee, Financial Assistant. REVIEWERS: To ensure that it meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity, this Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief was reviewed by Mary Barber, RTI International and Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations.
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