摘要:科技部自然科學暨永續發展司各學門審議委員會對國內學界提供以下的服務:(1)協助專題研究計畫及研究獎勵申請案之學術審查;(2)出席國際會議、海外學人來華演講與短期科學技術指導、及延攬研究人才等申請案之審查;(3)出席學門聯合會議,協助科技部相關業務之推展,以及(4)其他學門海洋相關業務之重點研究規劃與推動。
除上述常設業務外,地科學門海洋組尚須協調掌握學門人力、海域觀測能量互相配合、適度分工,以有效運用資源,彰顯研究成效。而未來之推動方向主要是整合國內研究人力,依據學門規劃重點,推動各項大型整合研究計畫並定期評估計畫執行成效,整合現有研究船隻觀測能量之配置與運用,整合國內海洋資料庫,建立我國海域加值型基本資料庫,以提供產、官、學界對於國土規劃、資源履勘與開發、環境與生態保育等的依據。同時協助其它相關部會海洋研究業務之推動。今年度尤其預定著力的三項重點:(1)持續推動與監督新海研一、二、三號研究船建造工程,並且協助推動規劃日後的船務運作;協調國研院海科中心與國內海洋學界主要科研單位,規劃發展高效率與安全的海域觀測營運方式,確保海洋基礎研究觀測能量充分發揮;(2)審訂國家海洋研究中長程計劃書並開始推動其中優先項目之執行;(3)因應臺灣週邊海域日趨緊繃的政治情勢,除船載海域觀測仍為海洋基礎研究、海洋環境資料建置的重點,也將持續推動長時間尺度的時間序列測站、關鍵海域的新型海、氣象浮標觀測以及自走水下航儀觀測等形成三維多尺度的海域觀測網絡。
Abstract: Major services demanded from panels of the Department of Natural Science and Sustainable Development (DNSSD) of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) include (1) coordinating reviews on research projects and award applications, (2) coordinating reviews on conference applications or invitations of foreign scholars, (3) participating general panel assemblies to aid DNSSD in fulfilling it’s task in enhancing and guiding the domestic scientific researches, (4) planning ocean sciences research projects and promotions.
Other than the routine services outlined above, the panel of the discipline of Oceanography is obliged to coordinate the efforts, resources and offshore sea observational capability from the domestic community of oceanographic research such that mutual complement and adequate subdividing of the group efforts according to each of their own characteristics can be achieved to enhance the efficiency and performance for the domestic research and survey of the ocean sciences. Moreover, the major task of the panel is to coordinate efforts and resources, to appraise priority of research projects of ocean sciences research and to promote integrated projects that focus on topics that are either along the academic frontier or are related to what have direct impact to our social, economy needs. Constant efficiency and performance assessment of these prioritized projects are obviously essential. Furthermore, efforts on integrating ocean data bank to gradually develop the domestic fundamental ocean data set to provide services for the purpose of ocean resources planning (biological, geological and energy), claiming national domain, offshore engineering background investigation and offshore environment protection etc. Two additional tasks of high priority in the next few years are (1) to coordinate, monitor the progress of building the new generation R/V OR1, OR2 and OR3, make the proper planning of the future operation policy, coordinate efforts from the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, NARL and those from the major domestic institutes of the ocean research community to ensure safe and high efficient marine field observations essential to the basic ocean researches, and (2) to finalize the goal planning of the mid- to long-range national programs of ocean sciences study, and (3) to accommodate the intense international situation in oceans around Taiwan, the conventional field observations carried out by research vessels are, still the major approaches for the fundamental marine researches and the accumulation of important marine environmental information, in addition, there must be efforts devoted to develop time-series stations, modern data buoys at key area with multiple sensors for oceanic and atmospheric parameters and observations carried out by automated underwater vehicles to gradually build up a three-dimensional, multiscale marine observation network.