Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Workshop Agenda

Monday, July 10, 2006

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome by Scott Doney
9:00-9:45 Agency updates

Atmosphere-Ocean CO2 exchange (Chair: Richard Feely)

9:45-10:30

Taro Takahashi: Improved estimates for the climatological mean distribution of sea-air pCO2 difference and the net CO2 flux over the global oceans

10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher: Atmospheric and oceanic inverse modeling: What are the atmospheric and oceanic data telling us about air-sea CO2 fluxes?
11:30-12:15 Richard Feely: Interannual variability of the air-sea exchange of CO2: What we have learned so far from observations
12:15-1:15 Lunch and Posters
1:15-2:00 Scott Doney: Simulating interannual variability in global
air-sea CO2 fluxes
2:00-2:30 Discussion on Air-Sea CO2 Flux session
2:30-3:15 Steve Emerson: Ocean biological productivity rates determined
from in situ, remote oxygen measurements
3:15-3:30 Break

Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment and other Research Opportunities (Chair: David Glover)

3:30-5:00 Short presentations by David Ho (GasEx-III), Tom Trull (ACE/CSIRO carbon research) and Colm Sweeney (Bomb 14C) followed by plenary discussion
5:00-7:00 Reception

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

Marine Ecosystem/Biogeochemical Dynamics (Chair: Kathy Barbeau)

9:00-9:45 John Marra: Beyond assimilation numbers
9:45-10:30 Ken Buesseler: Carbon dynamics of the mesopelagic zone - results from VERTIGO
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Mark Altabet: Climate change and the oceanic nitrogen cycle; forcings and possible feedbacks
11:30-12:15 Stephanie Dutkiewicz: Natural selection in a model ocean and
a new approach to representing ocean ecosystems in biogeochemical models
12:15-1:15 Lunch and Posters
1:15-2:00 Jim Moffett: Is the Arabian Sea Fe limited?
2:00-2:45 Jim Bishop: Ensembles of observations: Biomass - flux
coupling in the Southern Ocean
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:45 Gabrielle Rocap: The biological pump in the age of genomics
Ocean Acidification (Chair: Richard Feely)
3:45-5:30 Short presentations by Joan Kleypas, Mark Eakin and Vicki Fabry
followed by plenary discussion

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

Marine Ecosystem/Biogeochemical Dynamics (Chair: Kathy Barbeau)

9:00-9:45 Julie Morris, NSF
9:45-10:30 Mike Behrenfeld: Basin-scale expressions of nutrient stress
in phytoplankton and implications toward carbon modeling
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Aditee Mitra: How not to model the flow of carbon through planktonic predator-prey systems
11:30-12:00 Discussion on Marine Eco/BGC session
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Posters

Other research opportunities

1:00-2:00

ORION (Mary-Elena Carr/Wade McGillis)

EU CARBOOCEAN (Helmuth Thomas)

HOT (Ricardo Letelier)

Ocean Carbon Dynamics and Climate (Chair: Jorge Sarmiento)

2:00-2:45 Joellen Russell: The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in a warming world: propping open the door to the deep ocean
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:45 Naomi Levine: Detection and attribution of anthropogenic CO2
uptake on decadal time-scales
3:45-4:30 Keith Rodgers: Detection and Attribution of anthropogenic change in oceanic DIC: a test case for the North Pacific
4:30-5:15 Dierdre Toole: Open-ocean organic sulfur cycling: Light, DMS, and the climate feedback loop
5:15-8:15 Group Dinner on the Fenno Patio

Thursday, July 13, 2006

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

Ocean Carbon Dynamics and Climate (cont.) (Chair: Jorge Sarmiento)

9:00-9:45 Robert Anderson: Calcium carbonate preservation in equatorial Pacific sediments: Harbinger of the next ice age?
9:45-10:30 Ed Laws: Oceans and human health: Impacts of climate change
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Raffaele Ferrari: Upper ocean ventilation and biogeochemical modeling
11:30-12:15 Ray Najjar: U.S. Eastern Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Modeling, data assimilation, and analysis
12:15 End of meeting

 

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