Workshop dates to be announced (Spring 2025)
LSU (New Orleans, 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 matter entering the ocean. They are major centers for particulate and dissolved organic carbon net transfer from land to ocean.
Recent evidence suggests that coastal oceans have become net sink for atmospheric CO2 during post-industrial times and continued human pressures in coastal zones and alterations to deltas will likely have an important impact on the future evolution of the coastal ocean’s carbon budget.
Despite the importance of deltas and blue carbon ecosystems to the global carbon cycle and coastal communities, land-to-ocean parameterizations in Earth System models are highly simplified and do not mechanistically include many of the processes involved in cycling carbon in these areas.
Significant and critical knowledge gaps on processes, their impacts on marine biogeochemistry, and the direction of future change exist—this workshop aims to address those knowledge gaps.
We will bring together a diverse group who are committed to exploring the physical, temporal, and biogeochemical processes that modulate fluxes of carbon to and from global deltas. We will bolster community engagement and participation, with a particular emphasis on inclusion of minoritized populations, international partners, and state and federal U.S agencies through targeted activities, before, during, and after the workshop.
This scoping workshop will utilize momentum from the OCB 2023 Summer Workshop plenary session focused on deltaic systems to build a network of modelers, experimentalists, and field scientists working on deltas in this era of unprecedented climate change and other anthropogenic stresses, and will address and advance several OCB mission-specific topics:
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Ocean biogeochemistry – Influence of delta systems on adjacent coastal ocean in terms of carbon cycle (DIC/ALK/pCO2) both in water column and sediment, carbon burial and lateral transport of carbon.
Ecosystems – Role of salt marshes, mangroves, and sea grass on carbon retention and burial in delta plain and net export to adjacent ocean; reconstructions and forecasts of the distribution of these coastal ecosystems.
Novel methods and integration – Employing new technologies, e.g., chronology, remote sensing, to reconstruct and monitor delta change; integrating field and model data to study processes and change across timescales (past, present, and future).
Connectivity – Variability in hydrological connectivity across delta plain and delta shelf and its impact on carbon consumption, transport and retention.
Perturbations – Impact of climate and human driven changes including extreme events on delta carbon cycling.
Biogeochemical modeling: including mechanistic understanding of carbon cycling in the land-to-ocean continuum in global models, parameterizations of blue carbon ecosystems in high-resolution ocean models, quantifying organic and inorganic carbon transfers from deltas to theocean.
Community consensus Topic #1 and Topic # 2 – TBD
PRE-WORKSHOP
Objectives
Activities
DEI + ECR FOCUS
In the pre-workshop activities we will invite speakers from different continents and include in our discussions the different location-based needs from different communities (global representation). We will offer support on presentation delivery, design, and practice sessions to non-native English and early-career speakers before the actual online events, as a form of professional development.
OUTCOMES
The workshop aims to develop knowledge and define future research needs on the role of deltas in the global carbon cycle—while building an interdisciplinary community (with a focus on ECR and underrepresented minoritized scientists)—around this understudied yet critical aspect of ocean biochemistry. To distribute these outcomes to the broader community there will be a consensus paper, a global delta carbon budget infographic, and an AGU Eos piece.
PROPOSED WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
DAY 0: Arrival, check-in, poster set-up Evening mixer: Welcome attendees, brief workshop introduction, goals, expectations, code of conduct |
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Morning – breakfast provided | Afternoon - lunch provided | Evening | |
DAY 1 | Welcome & open the workshop Plenaries Lightning Talks | Breakout groups (identifying unresolved scientific questions) Report out + discussion Excursion to the LSU Center for River Studies (build comradery & gain inspiration) | Dinner and networking reception |
DAY 2 | Plenaries Lightning Talks Poster session | 2 Breakout/working groups (assigned) to consider knowledge gaps identified on Day 1 Report out + discussion | Dinner in groups –self organize |
DAY 3 | 1 Plenary Breakout groups: work on identified deliverables | Breakout groups work on deliverables Breakout groups: brainstorm ways to increase community participation Evaluate: was community consensus achieved during the workshop? Adjourn ~4PM |
2024 Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program
June 3-14, 2024 (Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY)
The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program will support three 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 22, 2024. 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).
Application deadline: March 22, 2024
Good morning. I just had a notice regarding a need for OSM24 for Student Presentation Evaluations Program (SPEP) reviewers. There are 140 students presenting in SPEP today and 87 of these presentations have no reviewers.
Each session with an SPEP student has a liaison assigned to find three reviewers for these students. They have been contacted this morning for help, but we are all reaching out to our networks to see if anyone has a few moments to spare to do a few reviews.
Any OSM24 attendee (including students) may volunteer to review a presentation. It is relatively simple for reviewers to volunteer – you will need to access the SPEP platform using your AGU credentials, find the presentation you would like to review in the gallery, and select “Review SPEP Presentation.”
You can find the full reviewer instructions here.
Additionally, reviewers and liaisons can stop by the SPEP desk in the poster hall, where we have computers for volunteer reviewers to sign up and submit their evaluations.
Please consider evaluating one or two in your area if you can.
Thank you, all, for considering this request!
Adam Martiny
Watch the informational webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXw9ZspNhP8
OCB will have a booth at the OSM24 exhibitor hall – come see us there during open hours. SSC members and Project Office staff will be at the booth to talk all things OCB and answer your questions about getting more involved.
Stay tuned for OCB-hosted sessions and town halls during OSM.
Given the broad and thriving mCDR landscape, the OCB SSC recently developed a Principles of Engagement document to help guide new research activities, collaborations, and communications around mCDR. Read the document HERE.
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January 2023: OAIC-hosted SOLAS Seminar IV: The ABC’s of the sea surface microlayer: Aerosols, Bubbles, and Composition Watch the recording (for more related content see more SOLAS Seminars)
December 14, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OAIC Networking event during Fall AGU immediately following poster session Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS): 20 Years of Progress and Developments in Ocean-Atmosphere Science
Location: Shelby’s Rooftop Lounge, 250 4th St, San Francisco, CA
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