Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

Global Ocean DOM Data Collection Under Construction

Dennis Hansell and Craig Carlson are compiling DOM data (DOC/TDN) from the global ocean with the intention of making those available to current and future generations of ocean scientists. Please contribute your data. We are compiling the long line (U.S. GO-SHIP and earlier) DOC/TDN and affiliated hydrographic data into a single collection. Our intention is […]

New recording: OCB Working Group Mtg: Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes

Thank you to everyone who participated! The recordings are now on the OCB YouTube channel. The first meeting of the OCB Working Group on Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes convened, May 5-6, 2020 via Webex. The first day of the meeting (May 5) was open to everyone and included presentations […]

$Temperate salt marshes (MA, USA). Healthy salt marshes have lush stands of grasses (left). Storms can expose peat deposits that have been buried for thousands of years (right). The fate of this soil carbon is unknown, but some fraction will be respired by microbes and returned to the atmosphere as CO2.$

Global change impacts soil carbon storage in blue carbon ecosystems

Vegetated coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems, including sea grasses, mangroves, and salt marshes, provide valuable ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, storm protection, critical habitat, etc.. Many of these services are supported by the ability of blue carbon ecosystems to accumulate soil organic carbon over thousands of years. Rapidly changing climate and environmental conditions will impact […]

New Report: 2016 Workshop on Forecasting ENSO Impacts on Marine Ecosystems of the US West Coast

The goal of this joint US CLIVAR – US OCB workshop was to develop a strategy for connecting ENSO physical climate forecasts to marine ecosystem forecasts along the US West Coast, in particular the California Current System (CCS). Learn more about the workshop. Di Lorenzo, E., A. Miller, C. Anderson, K. Karnauskas, J. Keister, N. […]

NASA Evolutionary Programming Analytic Center (NEPAC): ocean color community requirement survey

Dear Ocean Color Science Community, We are reaching out to enlist your help. We are creating a new method to develop satellite-based chlorophyll a algorithms using a machine learning (ML) approach called Genetic Programming. This NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) project, called the NASA Evolutionary Programming Analytic Center (NEPAC), will create a web-based Graphical […]

Seeking Speakers for the OCB Virtual Summer Seminar Series

This summer, we are developing a biweekly virtual seminar series to help OCB community members connect and share great new science! For this series, we are seeking content that is relevant to OCB’s current research priorities. If you are interested in giving an OCB virtual seminar, please fill out this form by May 31. The […]

CANCELLED: OCB2020 Summer Workshop

Cancellation of OCB 2020 Due to health and safety concerns associated with COVID-19, we regret to inform you that the 2020 OCB workshop in Woods Hole has been cancelled. Rather than attempt a virtual format for the planned OCB 2020 plenary sessions (which we think would compromise session quality and community discussion), the OCB SSC […]

New combined surface pCO2 climatology

The new combined surface pCO2 climatology sent to OCADS by Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) was archived at OCADS/NCEI: Landschützer, Peter; Goulven Laruelle, Alizee Roobaert, Pierre Regnier (2020). A combined global ocean pCO2 climatology combining open ocean and coastal areas (NCEI Accession 0209633). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. […]

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