Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

In 2017, an interdisciplinary group of early career scientists, the Biology Meets Subduction team, visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent, to find out if subterranean microbes affect geological processes that move carbon from Earth’s surface into the deep interior. Using carbon and helium isotope measurements of water and […]

Joint science highlight with GEOTRACES Carbon storage in the ocean is sensitive to the depths at which particulate organic carbon (POC) is respired back to CO2 within the twilight zone (100-1000m). For decades, it has been an oceanographic priority to determine the depth scale of this regeneration process. To investigate this, GEOTRACES scientists are deploying […]

In the ocean, unicellular eukaryotes are often mixotrophic, which means they photosynthesize and also consume prey. In recent decades, it has become clear that mixotrophs are ubiquitous in sunlit ocean habitats. Additionally, models predict that mixotrophs have important impacts on productivity, nutrient cycling, carbon export, and food web structure. However, there is little understanding of […]

Members of the Ocean Color Community, Greetings. For your situational awareness, the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission Science and Applications Team (SAT) call for proposals is open. PACE is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean color, ocean biogeochemistry, ocean ecology, aerosols, and clouds in support of […]

Rationale for a web-based Best Practice Guide WEBSITE www.meddle-scor149.org The complexity of the natural environment and the number of drivers often prevent the design of a single fully factorial experiment evaluating the impact on a given species or ecosystem.  For example, an experimental design to investigate 4 drivers, with 5 treatment levels per driver, and […]

Dear Colleague Letter: Research Opportunities Related to Coastlines and People (CoPe) April 24, 2019 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorates for Geosciences (GEO), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), Biological Sciences (BIO), Engineering (ENG), Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) announce […]

Poster abstract submission is open through June 7. More info on posters here.   Registration for OCB2019 is FULL as of April 25. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please contact us. The 2019 OCB Summer Workshop will be held June 24-27, 2019 in Woods Hole, MA.   2019 OCB Workshop […]

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