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Supporting the CoML Synthesis Plan

Supporting the CoML Synthesis Plan. Jesse Ausubel Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. What might Sloan do directly to help? What help in addition to Sloan do we need?. Supporting Synthesis 1: Within each Field Project.

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Supporting the CoML Synthesis Plan

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  1. Supporting the CoMLSynthesis Plan Jesse Ausubel Alfred P. Sloan Foundation What might Sloan do directly to help? What help in addition to Sloan do we need?

  2. Supporting Synthesis 1:Within each Field Project • Final grants for 2010 activities available to all Field Programs, FMAP, HMAP (proposals due not later than 1 October 2009) • Will depend on progress in synthesis already achieved

  3. Supporting Synthesis II:Across projects • Additional resources may be considered for cross-cutting or integrative activities re diversity, distribution, abundance Examples: a) Completing list of named species (WoRMS) b) Estimating how many marine species remain to be discovered c) Offering a new global biogeography of the oceans (landscape scale classification) d) Creating a new geography of marine hot spots (high diversity and/or high endemism)

  4. Supporting Synthesis II:Across projects (2) Examples continued: e) Creating range maps for 80,000+ species f) Freshly estimating biomass by trophic levels g) Freshly estimating changes in size distribution of animals h) Updating the marine tree of life & adding many leaves by barcodes + other info (proposal in review)

  5. Supporting Synthesis III:Across projects • Additional resources may be considered for cross-cutting or integrative activities re diversity, distribution, abundance (3) Examples: i) Completing 230,000 marine species pages for Encyclopedia of Life j) Considering areas of Oceans Past and Present as precursors for Oceans Future (oxgyen minimum zones [hypoxia], naturally acid environments [near CO2 outgassing Marianas volanoes], areas of recovery…)

  6. Incentives • Forms of recognition? Small awards at dinner tonight • Money prizes? • Let’s think together about what motivates us!!

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