{"id":213301,"date":"2025-04-03T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=213301"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:59:52","slug":"nasem-ocean-studies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/03\/nasem-ocean-studies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical investments needed on ocean science front to prepare, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Major investments are needed for core research in ocean science and to upgrade and replace infrastructure to support use-inspired, basic research in ocean studies, said a new report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine<\/a> (NASEM<\/abbr>). For more than two years, Shimi Rii, faculty member at the Hawaiʻi<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a> in the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST<\/abbr>), served as a member of the NASEM<\/abbr> committee<\/a> that authored the consensus study report intended to inform the next decade of research and innovation.<\/p>\n

“In this report, we challenge ourselves and the broader ocean science community, by 2035, to establish a new paradigm to forecast ocean processes at scales relevant to human well-being,” said Rii. “What this means, is that now is the time to do science differently than we have always done it\u2014through creative partnerships, innovative endeavors and inclusion of multiple perspectives to enhance scientific advancements.”<\/p>\n

The report, requested and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, focuses on three themes of ocean research important for improving forecasts of ocean processes:<\/p>\n