COBRA Side Event at AGU 2024
US Leadership in Deep-Sea Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs
Tuesday December 10, 2024 (2:30 – 4:30PM EST)
Westin DC Downtown
999 9th St NW, Washington, DC, 20001
Meeting Room 10-11 on Meeting Room Level
The US has many opportunities, needs, and challenges for deep-sea research to inform decision making, especially to address major knowledge gaps and technological limitations concerning emergent human uses of the deep sea for potential deep-sea mining and marine and subseafloor carbon dioxide removal strategies. The NSF-funded COBRA project that aims to accelerate research of the deep sea to inform decision making convened an expert panel to discuss these knowledge gaps, needs, and challenges as well as opportunities for US leadership. We invited representatives of executive agencies, legislative staff, and civil society organizations to join this conversation at this event held on the side-lines of the American Geophysical Union annual conference, Tuesday December 10, 2024 at the Westin DC Downtown. This event was not recorded and followed Chatham House Rule.
See this document for the key messages (background, knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities) from this briefing on:
- Deep-sea considerations for the US Academic Research Fleet
- Deep-sea considerations for mCDR (marine Carbon Dioxide Removal) research
- Deep-sea considerations for deep-sea mining research
- Deep-sea considerations for NOAA Ocean Exploration
- Deep-sea considerations for BOEM Critical Minerals research, and
- Deep-sea considerations for technology R&D
Questions can be directed to cobra@bigelow.org.
Agenda Overview
| 2:30PM - 2:45PM | Networking (Light Snacks Available) |
| 2:45PM - 4:00PM | Expert Panel with Q&A Moderated by Beth Orcutt (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Vice President for Research and Senior Research Scientist)Paula Bontempi (University of Rhode Island Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography and Chair of the Coalition for Ocean Science and Education Advocacy (COSEA)) Challenges, needs, and opportunities for US academic leadership in ocean science Beth Orcutt (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Vice President for Research and Senior Research Scientist) Julie Huber (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Senior Scientist) Jeremy Weirich (NOAA Ocean Exploration Director) Simon Freeman (ARPA-E Program Director) Jeffrey Reidenauer (BOEM Chief of the Marine Minerals Division) |
| 4:00PM - 4:30PM | Additional Networking (with Snacks) |
Registration
Please use the link below to register your interest in attending as space for the event is limited.
