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Announcing new OCB SSC members

Dear Colleagues:
OCB has completed its 2009 SSC member elections and would like to thank
the OCB community for all of the excellent nominations. We are pleased
to welcome the following new members, who bring a broad range of
expertise to the SSC:

• Craig Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Marine
microbial ecology, bacterioplankton, and dissolved organic carbon
• David Hutchins (University of Southern California) – phytoplankton
biology, marine nutrient and carbon cycling
• Kenneth Johnson (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) – marine
biogeochemical sensor development
• Cindy Lee (Stony Brook University) – Ocean carbon cycle, marine
geochemistry of organic compounds, organic and inorganic nitrogen-cycle
biochemistry, silicate and carbonate biomineralization
• Taro Takahashi (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) – CO2 cycling
through oceans and atmosphere, industrial CO2 accumulation

Chris Sabine (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) was also
re-elected to continue serving as an ex-officio member of the SSC. Chris
is playing a leadership role in the development of the next U.S. Carbon
Cycle Science Plan.

We would like to thank departing SSC members Debbie Bronk (Virginia
Institute of Marine Science), Burke Hales (Oregon State University),
David Karl (University of Hawaii), and Wade McGillis (Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory) for their vision and hard work over the past three
years. They have contributed a great deal to the conceptual evolution
and implementation of OCB during its critical inaugural period.

Best wishes,
Heather Benway
OCB Project Office

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