Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

RFI Aquatic Primary Productivity Field Protocol for Satellite Validation and Model Synthesis

Request for public input to the comprehensive NASA/IOCCG-sponsored Aquatic Primary Productivity Field Protocol for Satellite Validation and Model Synthesis, which was recently posted on the IOCCG website for a 90-day community feedback period. This document is the product of a three-year effort with the objective to produce community consensus protocols for aquatic primary productivity appropriate […]

2022 OCB Activity Solicitation

2022 OCB Activity Solicitation The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2022 calendar year. Due to ongoing COVID-related uncertainties, in-person activities should include contingency plans in case delays or cancellations are necessary. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities as […]

SAVE THE DATE: Virtual Community Meeting on pre-Arctic-COLORS Data Synthesis

SAVE THE DATE: Virtual Community Meeting on pre-Arctic-COLORS Data Synthesis As NASA prepares for the Arctic-COLORS large-scale field campaign (https://arctic-colors.gsfc.nasa.gov/) in the near future, it is imperative to identify and characterize existing field data sets, modeling activities, and remote sensing capabilities within the coastal Arctic region that make up the Arctic-COLORS study domain. To work […]

Save the Date: Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop

Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop, a joint workshop between OCB and US CLIVAR will take place April 12-14, 2022. Currently the plan is to host the workshop in person in Woods Hole, MA with virtual participation options. Coastal areas share unique intersections of large-scale climate variability and local hydrology, wetland, […]

SAVE THE DATE! Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop

SAVE THE DATE! Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop WHEN: Nov 1-3, 2021 (NEW DATES) WHERE: Virtual Are you interested in this workshop and/or its products? Sign up for updates and stay tuned on the workshop website.

How atmospheric and oceanographic forcing impact the carbon sequestration in an ultra-oligotrophic marine system

Sinking particles are a critical conduit for the export of material from the surface to the deep ocean. Despite their importance in oceanic carbon cycling, little is known about the composition and seasonal variability of sinking particles which reach abyssal depths. Oligotrophic waters cover ~75% of the ocean surface and contribute over 30% of the […]

New Technical Manual “Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images

The OCB Phytoplankton Taxonomy Working Group has been working to establish standards and best practices for submitting taxonomic and morphological information for plankton and other particles from images collected by imaging instruments, such as the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), FlowCAM and Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP), to data repositories (e.g., NASA’s SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS) and […]

US BioGeoSCAPES Planning Workshop November 10-12

Dear Colleagues, The US BioGeoSCAPES Planning Workshop, funded by the US Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) program will take place November 2021 (rescheduled). The proposed BioGeoSCAPES program aims to improve our understanding of the functioning and regulation of ocean metabolism and its interactions with nutrient cycling, within the context of a hierarchical seascape perspective. This […]

A new proxy for ocean iron bioavailability

In many oceanic regions, iron exerts strong control on phytoplankton growth, ecosystem structure and carbon cycling. Yet, iron bioavailability and uptake rates by phytoplankton in the ocean are poorly constrained. Recently, Shaked et al. (2020) (see GEOTRACES highlight), established a new approach for quantifying the availability of dissolved Fe (dFe) in natural seawater based on […]

Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

RFI Aquatic Primary Productivity Field Protocol for Satellite Validation and Model Synthesis

2022 OCB Activity Solicitation

SAVE THE DATE: Virtual Community Meeting on pre-Arctic-COLORS Data Synthesis

Save the Date: Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop

SAVE THE DATE! Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop

How atmospheric and oceanographic forcing impact the carbon sequestration in an ultra-oligotrophic marine system

New Technical Manual “Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images

US BioGeoSCAPES Planning Workshop November 10-12

A new proxy for ocean iron bioavailability

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