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2023 Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program
June 5-16, 2023 (Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY)
The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program will support five US-based students or postdocs to participate in this course, including tuition, housing, and a travel stipend. To apply for support, please send your 2-page CV (NSF biosketch format) and a brief statement of interest (1 page max) to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by March 17, 2023. The statement should describe your interest in the course and its potential to enhance your research and your professional development. Application materials will be reviewed by the OCB Project Office, OCB Scientific Steering Committee leadership, and the course organizer Bruce Monger (Cornell Univ.). Please bear in mind that this is a full immersion class and participation for the entire 2 weeks is required. Visit the course website (http://oceanography.eas.cornell.edu/satellite) for more information about the course content. If you have additional questions about the course, please contact course organizer Bruce Monger (bcm3@cornell.edu).
The US Carbon Cycle Science Program is seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for potential leads and authors to draft the Third Decadal US Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Please submit your suggestions via this form. Once leads are finalized, a workshop will be organized to kick off the writing stage of the plan.
Kathy Tedesco kathy.tedesco@noaa.gov
See https://www.carboncyclescience.us/carbon-planning for more information on prior carbon cycle science plans.
In September 2022, the OCB community gathered for a workshop to build the OCB community’s capacity to conduct research on Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of marine CDR by identifying priorities, pathways and best practices in this relatively new area. The workshop was designed to provide both education for the community as well as ample opportunities for discussion to collectively grapple with the science needed to measure and verify CDR in marine environments. At this workshop, we convened 5 main topical sessions: Lessons from land-based CDR MRV; the landscape of current marine CDR MRV; Models, methods, and measurements for sea-air CO2 flux and permanence / durability of CDR methods; MRV in an ecosystem context; and MRV in a social and environmental justice context. On the last day, we convened our group to address how we could potentially grow this community and continue to build CDR and MRV knowledge, opportunities, best practices, and interdisciplinary networks in the OCB community. Recordings of plenary lectures and panel discussions are available on the workshop website. In this webinar, we’ll briefly review the key lessons learned from this workshop, some information about community feedback, a few nascent outcomes driven by our conversations, and discuss what’s coming next. Join us!
January 24, 2023 – 16:00-17:00 EST
Speakers and conveners: Jessica Cross (NOAA OAP), Jaime Palter (URI), Lennart Bach (Univ. Tasmania), Matt Long (NCAR), Patrick Rafter (UCI), Clare Reimers (OSU), Heather Benway and Mai Maheigan (OCB/WHOI)
This is a continuation of the SOLAS Seminar on Jan. 27 that had to be ended early due to a hacking incident. Presenter Luc Deike already gave an excellent presentation that was recorded and will be made available soon. In this second part of the seminar, we will hear from our other two presenters Andrew Wozniak and Sarah Brooks (details below).
The sea surface microlayer is an important interface controlling the transfer of energy, material and gases between the oceans and the atmosphere, and has been a primary focus of the SOLAS programme since its inception. The five SOLAS themes all include processes that affect and are affected by the sea-surface microlayer, including marine ecology, photochemistry, free radical/thermal chemistry, greenhouse gases and gas exchange, primary aerosol production, and atmospheric deposition. Therefore, the sea surface is one of five cross-cutting themes explored in the new United States SOLAS Science Plan, which was released in 2021. This seminar highlights some recent work at this exciting interface.
SPEAKERS
Influence of the sea surface microlayer composition on cloud formation - Sarah Brooks (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, United States)
Ocean spray aerosols generation: From breaking waves to bursting bubbles - Luc Deike (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, United States) - talk already given on January 27 (part 1, recording available soon)
CONVENERS
Rachel Stanley (Department of Chemistry, Wellesley College, United States)
Yuan Gao (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, United States)
On behalf of the OCB Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Committee (OAIC)
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Biogeochemical (BGC) Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide is the result of an NSF-funded (OCE2033919) grass-roots community effort to broaden the use of OOI biogeochemical sensor data and increase community capacity to produce analysis-ready data products. The guide includes five chapters: The Introduction (Chapter 1) provides information on the OOI program, including data access, processing, and recommended end user QA/QC relevant to all OOI biogeochemical sensors, and Chapters 2-5 cover the following groups of BGC variables and associated sensors: Dissolved oxygen, nitrate, carbonate chemistry, and bio-optics.
This effort brought together an international group of 39 ocean observing experts, across all career stages, from 19 institutions and 5 countries, each of whom brings expertise on biogeochemical sensors, data analysis and ocean observing infrastructure, as well as research expertise in ocean biogeochemistry. The initial OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data (OOI BGC) Working Group was formed in July 2021 through an open application process. A three-day virtual meeting in July 2021 launched the Working Group, with consensus-building activities to develop the scope and structure of the Best Practices and User Guide. From July 2021 to June 2022, the Working Group drafted a beta version of the Best Practices and User Guide that went through two rounds of internal review within the Working Group. A draft version of this document was Beta Tested by 14 current and prospective OOI BGC data users, who joined the Working Group members for a 3-day workshop in June 2022 to provide feedback that has since been used in revising and finalizing the document.
The OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide is now complete, and has been submitted to the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). As a next step, we are seeking to gain GOOS endorsement of the document. In order to do so, the guide must undergo a rigorous community review process whereby comments are publicly invited and adjudicated. We now invite community members to review the guide and submit comments by February 28, 2023. After completing the open review, we will revise the document based on the reviewers’ comments and upload an updated, final version to OBPS.
We encourage feedback from everyone, including both disciplinary experts and users new to each of these sensor types, as well as both experienced and new users of OOI data. Reviewers are welcome to provide feedback on the entire document, or on chapters or sections that are of particular relevance to their interests or expertise.
How to review the OOI BGC Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide:
We are aiming for a transparent and open community review process, and as such, all reviewer comments and responses to them will be public. We invite reviewers to provide feedback on the OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide via two different pathways:
Reviewers may submit lengthier and/or more overarching comments via an online form. All submissions to this form can be viewed here.
Please register for the Ocean Best Practices Workshop (free) in order to participate in this special session. You can sign up for this session via the Workshop Team Calendar (click on our Oct. 11 session and you’ll see a button to sign up to participate).
One of the aims of the Marine Ecological Time Series Research Coordination Network (METS-RCN) is to work towards standardized semantic approaches and adoption of controlled vocabularies for physical, biogeochemical, and biological parameters that are part of shipboard ocean time series data sets. Many global observing networks are currently trying to do this for biological parameters. Since we are looking at many of the same parameters, we should be coordinating and working towards a common solution.
Building on the model of a 2012 international workshop focused on methodological best practices for ship-based time series, the METS-RCN will convene a follow-on international time series workshop in 2023-2024 focused on consensus building around data and metadata best practices for ship-based time series. The OBPS workshop represents an opportunity to connect with other biology and biodiversity observing networks to share strategies for consensus building within their networks and identify common solutions (semantic approaches, use of existing and development of new terms in controlled vocabularies) in preparation for this activity next year.
This will be a 2-hour panel discussion to discuss goals and guiding principles (and any progress) on data and metadata guidelines for ocean biology and biodiversity variables:
The aim of this workshop is to push forward our knowledge of extreme weather and fire effects on coastal carbon cycling. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists to build a community of monitors/observers, experimentalists, and modelers to address these challenging knowledge gaps across these spatial and temporal domains. Find more information and a draft agenda on the workshop website. If you wish to participate remotely and you missed the registration deadline, you can still register to receive the workshop Zoom link.
The theme of this meeting will be mixotroph evolution, spanning from the evolutionary origins of mixotrophy to the evolutionary fate of mixotrophs in a changing ocean. The two speakers will be:
Elisabeth Hehenberger (Biology Center CAS, Czech Republic)
Holly Moeller (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Register here. Learn more about this OCB working group here.
GLODAP cruise submission requirements
Mandatory:
A merged “bottle-file“ including:
Ideal/Optional:
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