Today is Ocean day of a worldAnd this year’s theme is “Wonder: to hold what he holds.” A researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrinia marine geophysicist and a senior research scientist and an expert in geoinformatics in Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Climate School of Columbia. Ferrini also directs the center of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean of the Nippon Foundation-Gebco project were 2030 (Brown 2030), which is a global initiative that seeks to complete the map of the ocean fund and provide a marine background map of public access by 2030.
In the questions and answers below, Ferrini shares his perspective on current marine research, the importance of international collaboration and what brings his hope for the future of this global field.
How would you describe the Current state of the Ocean Science and Research?
At this time, there is a real recognition that the way of doing this work is through collaboration. I think between him Ocean decade We are in the midst of and other initiatives such as Brown 2030Researchers recognize that collaboration and integration of intersectoral data will help us make better and more complete observations about the environment.
I think most of the events I am participating in this month, including Capitol Hill Week Ocean Week, Explorer’s Club, NYC Ocean Tech Summit and the Ocean conference from the UNThey are really focused on that issue, both long -standing associations that we have benefited from here in the United States, as well as new associations that are growing worldwide. We are really beginning to group Ocean Research data and recognize that data that may not have value for some people have value for others. Collecting, healing and sharing that data can have a great impact and return of investment on a larger scale.
WHave we been able to map until now?
At some point in this month, we will announce the latest authorized international number. But until a year ago it was 26%. This represents the efforts of innumerable individuals and organizations around the world. As we continue our efforts to map the global ocean, we are still trying to find optimal ways to fill the data gaps. We are advancing all the time, accelerating processing and integration, and the new technology is accelerating data acquisition. The most exciting thing for me is that we are perched on the potential of a large influx of data that will not only reveal the hidden parts of our planet, but will also lead to discoveries and solutions that affect people.
The project in which it is working implies Taking advantage of open source data and the creation of a public map of the entire seabed by 2030. Can you talk a little about that and why is it so important?
If we return to the origins of Lamont and some of the first works done here, we see the power to add data so that everything is greater than the sum of the parties. Our individual observational footprint tends to be quite small when we are working in the ocean, partly due to physics. For example, we can only get images or see through water at very short distances. But as we begin to gather more data, we get new ideas. We get a broader perspective when we make the data open and really prioritize accessibility. Not only can experts work with unprocessed data formats that benefit. Actually, we can structure data so that people carry out a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary investigation. We begin to obtain new perspectives just having more people at the table.
When we think at the national level, we have had a lot of effort to ensure that the data collected with federal subsidies and public resources are accessible to the public. We have made excellent discoveries with that data and we have also developed incredible data systems and synthesis due to public access policies. That is a great American leadership signal and offers an additional return on investment. Now we are seeing a significant increase in this work internationally and we can start joining data worldwide. I think this is where there is a lot of power, potential and collaboration.
You mentioned several conferences on the research of the ocean that will attend in the coming weeks. Why are these meetings so vital?
Many of these events are about oceanic exploration, mapping and general discovery. We are in the midst of a great change in the way we work in the ocean space. Now there are many more players than in the past, which is incredible. There is more private sector participation, more investment in philanthropy and we are seeing more collaboration in all sectors. We really have the potential to climb so that it was not possible before, not only for the number of players in the Oceanic company, but also for the growing number of sensors and emerging technology. The pace of computing has also become much faster. All these things together are creating a potential data flood, and our challenge is to connect and manage them. We have all been accustomed to working on our lanes and we tend not to look for adjacent lanes, but there is a real power in the cross connections that can be made.
What do you expect to remove from these national and international conferences?
In addition to the general benefit of getting involved with the growing community of participants, we are really thinking and trying to address scale problems. We have been working to gather ocean mapping data through the Seonon 2030 project and we recognize that joining a global coalition is the only way to build this map. We still have a long way, but if we can discover how to climb our efforts, we can not only have a more complete image of the ocean, but we will accelerate progress. We will also have the opportunity to maintain the rhythm of the dynamics of the ocean.
The UN Conference Ocean will be a really inspiring week in which we will interact with people around the world who are really motivated and passionate about understanding, protecting and managing the ocean so that it can help us keep us in the future. These types of events are really beneficial in terms of not only joining people to understand what is happening worldwide, but also remind us that great progress is being made and that we will continue to progress, even when times are difficult.
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