1. Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group

2. What is the vision for research within the MSI?
Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Objectives:
Develop new interdisciplinary approaches to collaborate around marine issues
Build capabilities in data-intensive science and services, such as OOI
Enable new capabilities and facilities to support access to the sea
Establish new partnerships
Create “incubator” spaces
Unique approaches to experiential learning around marine issues
Develop international partnerships related to marine studies research and policies
Plan of Action:
Identify capabilities and capacities among constituents
Brainstorm about research directions and opportunities
Identify gaps and needs, and set priorities
What is the vision for research within the MSI?

3. Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Sustainability, The Future We Want and a Core Principle of OSU and the MSI
Whether it is safe, sustainable seafood, clean water and energy, or access to ocean related recreation and cultural resources, OSU and the research endeavor at MSI are committed to defining and understanding the complex questions necessary to ensure a sustainable future for Oregonians and our ocean resources.
Convergence, An Approach to Emergent Research Themes for the OSU MSI
Convergence integrates knowledge, tools, and ways of thinking from life and health sciences, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences, engineering disciplines, and beyond to form a comprehensive synthetic framework for tackling scientific and societal challenges that exist at the interfaces of multiple fields.

4. Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
From The Mountain Tops to the Ocean: A Stewardship of Place in Oregon
Water connects the land to ocean from the fresh rain and snow in the mountains carrying materials downstream, through the flowing creeks and rivers, to the oscillating estuaries and eventually to the salty coastal ocean; water completes this cycle continually along the Oregon coast.
Major Research Themes
Integrated Marine Systems Science
Reliance on the Sea
Global Change and Resilient Coastal Communities

5. Marine Studies Initiative: Research Working Group
Assets and Areas of Distinction
There are lots, look online and talk to your colleagues (outside your division).

6. Understanding marine systems Coastal resiliency and global chance
Cluster #1
Tourism, Aquaculture, Social Scientist, Fisheries/Stock Assessment
Cluster #2
Environmental and Human Health, Anthropologist, Community Development, Food Security/Ecology
Reliance on the sea
Understanding marine systems
Coastal resiliency and global chance
Cluster #1
Metocean dynamics
Morphodynamic modeling
Remote Sensing
Eco-informatics
Modeling of climate change
Cluster #1
Nearshore Biological, Physical, Acoustics, Optics, Modeler
Cluster #2
Toxicology, Ocean Health, Microbial Ecology, Environmental Chemistry
Cluster #2
Spatial Planner, Governance, Hazards Educator, Maritime Studies
Cluster #3
Paleo, Archeo, Geoarcheo, Anthropologist
Cross-Cutting Themes
Cluster #1
Transdisciplinary Learning, Environmental Education, Citizen Science Scholarship,
Process and outcome evaluation
Cluster #2
Bioinformatics, Uncertainty, Big Data, Spatio-temporal Statistics