The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Scientific Steering Committee (OCB SSC) was formed in February 2006. The OCB SSC was created jointly by NSF, NASA and NOAA to provide critical leadership to the OCB community by helping to identify research priorities and promote, plan, and coordinate collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities in ocean biogeochemistry. SSC members serve a term of three years. Parentheses indicate term end (end of calendar year) for each member.
Randelle Bundy (UW) (2027) (Chair) - cycling of bioactive trace metals, chemical speciation of iron, copper, nickel and cobalt, impacts on microbial community structure in the ocean, connecting trace metals with productivity and the carbon cycle
Jason Graff (Oregon State Univ.) (2027) Biooptics, satellite remote sensing
David Harning (CU Boulder) (2028) - paleoclimatology, geochemistry, carbon burial, Arctic climate change, carbon dioxide removal
Hope Ianiri (USGS, early career member) (2028) - marine organic carbon and nitrogen cycles, long-term carbon storage in marine environments
Bror Jönsson (Univ. New Hampshire) (2027) - land-open ocean continuum processes, coastal acidification, biophysical interactions, phytoplankton dynamics, air-sea exchange, data analysis, remote sensing and algorithm development
Angela Knapp (TAMU) (2028) - marine biochemistry, nitrogen fixation, dissolved organic nutrients, marine nitrogen stable isotope geochemistry
Kristen Krumhardt (NCAR) (2026) - marine biological, ocean ecosystem modeling, Southern Ocean ecosystem dynamics
Jonathan Lauderdale (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology) (2027) - biogeochemical modeling, paleoclimate, physical oceanography, high latitude processes occurring in high latitude regions such as the Southern Ocean.
Elaine Luo (UNC Charlotte) (2028) - microbial ecology, computational biology, metagenomics
Jessica Luo (Vice Chair) (NOAA/GFDL) (2029) - plankton ecology, food webs, biogeochemical dynamics, global-scale marine ecosystem models
Kanchan Maiti (Louisiana State Univ.) (2026) - biogeochemical cycling along aquatic continuum, deep ocean and benthic fluxes, geochemical tracers, autonomous observation platforms
Melissa Meléndez (Univ. Hawai'i) (2026) - marine carbonate chemistry, ocean acidification, net ecosystem metabolism, marine carbon dioxide removal
Sarah Mincks (Univ. Alaska Fairbanks) (2027) benthic-pelagic coupling, marine organism-mediated carbon cycling
Shaily Rahman (Univ Colorado, Boulder) (2027, second term) - marine biogeochemistry and sedimentary processes
Rachel Stanley (Wellesley College) (2026) - inorganic chemistry, mass spectrometry, gas tracers, air-sea gas exchange
