BGC Argo Webinar #8: Comparing BGC-Argo observations with modelsOctober 16, 2024, 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern Please join us for the quarterly GO-BGC webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project Office. This webinar will be focused on comparisons between BGC-Argo observations and ocean model simulations focusing on bbp and particulate forms of carbon. The […]
READ MORE »OCB is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members. The following SSC members are scheduled to rotate off at the end of 2024: Jeff Bowman (SIO) – microbial ecology, bioinformatics, coastal and high latitude ecosystems, modeling Susanne Craig (NASA GSFC) – satellite RS, bio-optics, machine learning techniques and ocean color algorithm development Tim […]
READ MORE »OCB Scoping Workshop Leaky Deltas: Sources or sinks in the global carbon cycle? March 17-20, 2025 at Louisiana State Univ. (Baton Rouge, LA) River deltas and the adjacent coastal ocean are critical interfaces between terrestrial and oceanic environments. Deltas are the entry point of ~50% of the fresh water and 40% of all global particulate […]
READ MORE »We want to hear from you – Submit your ideas for OCB2025 plenary sessions by Oct. 4! The OCB Summer Workshop is heading west for 2025! OCB will hold its annual summer science workshop from Tuesday, June 3 to Friday, June 6, 2025 at the NASA Ames Conference Center (Moffett Field, California). A few things […]
READ MORE »OCB Supports Early Career Participants in Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program 2024 Michelle Wagner is in her first year of master’s study at the City College of New York. Her research interest is in monitoring the responses of coastal systems to natural and anthropogenic stressors. After graduating from the City College of New York, […]
READ MORE »The Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) mission will be NASA’s first geostationary, hyperspectral ocean color sensor to study ocean processes at the spatial and temporal scales required to observe the dynamic ecological, biogeochemical and physical processes typical of coastal and ocean waters. We would like to invite you to fill out a short survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GLIMR), to provide […]
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READ MORE »Marine fishes and filter-feeding gelatinous zooplankton such as salps and pyrosomes generate detritus in the form of poop and dead carcasses, which sink ~10 times faster than other oceanic detritus. This detritus is hypothesized to have a disproportionally large impact on the marine biological pump as it sequesters carbon and nutrients deeper in the water […]
READ MORE »Both climate change and the efforts to abate have the potential to reshape phytoplankton community composition, globally. Shallower mixed layers in a warming ocean and many marine CO2 removal (CDR) technologies will shift the balance of light, nutrients, and carbonate chemistry, benefiting certain species over others. We must understand how such shifts could ripple through […]
READ MORE »Phytoplankton are the main primary producers in the ocean and fuel marine food webs. Long-term shifts in phytoplankton biomass are useful for understanding the context of short-term changes and for examining the relationships between climate indices and phytoplankton dynamics. However, current monitoring programs often offer too short a time frame to disentangle these relationships. In […]
READ MORE »How does the microbial carbon pump (MCP) redefine our understanding of oceanic carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation? A recent study published in Nature Reviews Microbiology reviews the pivotal role of the microbial carbon pump (MCP) a novel concept differing from the known mechanisms for carbon sequestration in the ocean, the Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), […]
READ MORE »Ocean Acidification (OA), caused by the air-to-sea transfer of anthropogenic carbon (Cant), is intuitively thought to be a surface-intensified process, which makes sense because the concentration of Cant is greatest near the ocean surface and decreases with depth. But this intuition is not correct for multiple metrics of OA that are less commonly studied below […]
READ MORE »Polar regions are changing: warming, losing sea ice, and experiencing shifts in the phenology of seasonal events. Global models predict that phytoplankton blooms will start earlier in these warming polar environments. What we don’t know is will this be true for all high-latitude regions? Is the timing of phytoplankton growing season moving earlier in the […]
READ MORE »📣Last week, Dr. Scott Doney, professor @UVA and member of C-CoMP, served as an expert witness for the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee joint hearing on the potential of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches.
https://science.house.gov/2024/9/joint-hearing-subcommittee-on-environment-subcommittee-on-energy-navigating-the-blue-frontier-evaluating-the-potential-of-marine-carbon-dioxide-removal-approaches
Honored to have our @JGRBiogeo paper featured by @AGU_Eos! Underway 𝑝CO₂ time series on lakes are rare and valuable data, so I hope we see more of it soon.
Join us this Thursday for the next Leaky Deltas webinar!
Muriel Brückner and @anapiliouras will discuss how river delta morphodynamics can influence land-sea biogeochemical fluxes.
Register here: https://www.us-ocb.org/leaky-deltas-workshop-2025/
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Check this excellent opportunity for researchers on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, including fires and their impact on marine biogeochemistry.
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