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Spring 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Reports, Special Volumes, and Outreach Publications

Anderson, D. et al. (2009). The role of scientific ocean drilling in understanding ocean acidification, Summary of the Ocean Acidification and Marine Carbon Cycling Thematic Working Group Meeting, 7-9 January 2009, Miami, FL, U.S. Science Support Program, 9 pp.

Bender, M. et al. (2002). A large-scale CO2 observing plan: In situ oceans and atmosphere (LSCOP). A Report of the In Situ Large-Scale CO2 Observations Working Group. A Contribution to the Implementation of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Seattle, WA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2007). Advancing the integration of marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemistry: Second annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer workshop. EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 88 (47).

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2008). Ocean carbon cycling and climate impacts on marine ecosystems: Third annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer science workshop. EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 89 (47).

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2009). Multidisciplinary perspectives in marine biogeochemistry and ecology: Fourth annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer science workshop. EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 90 (45).

Birdsey, R., N. Bates, M. Behrenfeld, K. Davis, S.C. Doney, R. Feely, D.
Hansell, L. Heath, E. Kasischke, H. Kheshgi, B. Law, C. Lee, A.D. McGuire, P.
Raymond, and C.J. Tucke (2009). Carbon cycle observations: gaps threaten
climate mitigation policies, EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 90(34),
292-293.

Carbon Cycle Science working group (2009). USGCRP/CCSP Strategic Planning Building Block, Global Carbon Cycle, 6 pages.

Committee on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (2009). Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, National Research Council Report (ISBN: 0-309-13174-X), 178 pages.

Cooley, S. and OCB Ocean Acidification Subcommittee (2009). OCB Ocean Acidification lab/outreach kit, 29 pages.

Current: The Journal of Marine Education featuring: "Ocean Acidification -From Impacts to Policy Opportunities" (February 2009). Permission has been granted to OCB to post this special issue of Current published by The National Marine Educators Association (NMEA). For more information about the NMEA, please visit their website

Doney, S. (2009). The consequences of human-driven ocean acidification for marine
life, F1000 Biology Reports 1:36, 4pp., doi: 10.3410/B1-36.

Doney, S.C., V.J. Fabry, R.A. Feely, J.A. Kleypas (2009). Ocean acidification: The other CO2 problem, Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci., 1, 169-192, 10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163834.

Doney, S.C. (2008). Ocean acidification, essay in Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas (National Geographic Atlas) by S.A. Earle and L.K. Glover, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., p. 39, ISBN 978-1426203190.

Doney, S. C. and H. M. Benway (2007). Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry: An eye toward integrated research. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 16(3): 69.

Doney, S.C. (2006). The dangers of ocean acidification. Scientific American 294(3), 58-65.

European Commission (2009). Integrated assessment of the European and
North Atlantic Carbon Balance - key results, policy implications for post 2012 and research needs. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 136 pp. ISBN 978-92-79-07970-2.

European Science Foundation (2009). Science Policy Briefing on the “Impacts of Ocean Acidification.”

Fabry, V. J., C. Langdon, W. M. Balch, A. G. Dickson, R. A. Feely, B. Hales, D. A. Hutchins, J. A. Kleypas, and C. L. Sabine (2008). Ocean acidification’s effects on marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry scoping workshop on ocean acidification research. Eos 89(15): 143.

Fabry, V. J., C. Langdon, W. M. Balch, A. G. Dickson, R. A. Feely, B. Hales, D. A. Hutchins, J. A. Kleypas, and C. L. Sabine (2009): Present and future impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, Report of the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Scoping Workshop on Ocean Acidification Research (UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; 9–11 October 2007)

Goodkin, N. and S. Doney (2007). Global calcification after ocean acidification, Meridian Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, 2(2), 12-13.

Hales, B., Wei-Jun Cai, B. Greg Mitchell, Christopher L. Sabine, and Oscar Schofield [eds.] (2008). North American Continental Margins: a synthesis and planning workshop. Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Group and Interagency Working Group. Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycles Science Program.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and the International CLIVAR Project Office. Hood, M. (ed.), Ship-based Repeat Hydrography: A Strategy for a Sustained Global Programme. (IOC Technical Series, 89. IOCCP Reports, 17. ICPO Publication 142.) UNESCO, 2009. (English)

IOC, IGBP, Marine Environment Laboratories of the IAEA, and SCOR (2009). Ocean Acidification: Summary for Policymakers.

IOC (2008). Changing Times: An International Ocean Biogeochemical Time-Series Workshop, La Jolla, California 5-7 November 2008, IOC Workshop Report No 217, UNESCO

IOCCP (2007). Surface Ocean Variability and Vulnerability Workshop (IOCCP Rpt No. 7), Paris, France, April 2007, 100pp.

Johnson, K. S. et al. (2009). Observing biogeochemical cycles at global scales with profiling floats and gliders: prospects for a global array. Report of the OCB Scoping Workshop “Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders” held April 28-30, 2009 in Moss Landing, CA, Oceanography 22(3), pp. 216-225.

Joint, I. et al. (2009) Consequences of high CO2 and ocean acidification for microbes in the global ocean, 24-26 February 2009, Symposium on Rising CO2, Ocean Acidification, and Their Impacts on Marine Microbes, Honolulu, HI

King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks [eds.] (2008). The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA, 242 pp.

Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger (2008). The CO2 air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp.

OCB Subcommittee on Ocean Acidification (2009). Ocean Acidification - Recommended Strategy for a U.S. National Research Program, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, 14 pp.

OCB Subcommittee on Ocean Acidification (2009). OCB response to the EPA Notice of Data Availability on ocean acidification. View EPA docket.

Ocean Acidification: A Summary for Policymakers from the Second Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World (2009), M. Hood, W. Broadgate, E. Urban, O. Gaffney (Eds.), 8 pp.

Ocean Acidification Reference User Group (2009). Ocean Acidification: The Facts. A special introductory guide for policy advisers and decision makers. Laffoley, D. d'A, and Baxter, J. M. (Eds.), European Project on OCean Acidification (EPOCA), 12pp.

OceanObs'09 Community White Papers

Pidgeon, E. and S.C. Doney (2008). The role of the oceans, Chapter 8 (pp 246-276), in A Climate for Life, Meeting the Global Challenge, R.A. Mittermeier et al., CEMEX Conservation Book Series, with Conservation International and the International League of Conservation Photographers, ISBN 978-0-9818321.

Robbins, L.L., Coble, P.G., Clayton, T. and Cai, W.-J. (2009). Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico Workshop, St. Petersburg, FL USA 6-8 May, 2008: USGS Open File Report 2009-1070, 80 p.

Sarmiento, J. L., and Wofsy, S. C. (1999). A U.S. carbon cycle science plan. Report of the Carbon and Climate Working Group for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) project - SOCAT-2 Meeting, UNESCO, Paris, June 16-17, 2008.

Takahashi, T., Sutherland, S. C. and Kozyr, A. (2008). Global Ocean Surface Water Partial Pressure of CO_2 Database: Measurements Performed during 1968-2007 (Version 2007). ORNL/CDIAC-152, NDP-088. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN.

The Royal Society (2005). Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, ISBN 0 85403 617 2, The Clyvedon Press Ltd, Cardiff, UK, 68 pp.