Archive for Early Career

New Activity: SedMIP

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, February 13th, 2026 

A new OCB activity is underway: SedMIP: Sediment Biogeochemistry Model Intercomparison Project. Learn more and participate in this collaborative effort to systematically evaluate and improve benthic biogeochemical models:

Attend the Town Hall at OSM26: TH23A: Advancing Benthic Modeling: Introducing SedBGC_MIP, a Community-Driven Model Intercomparison Initiative
TUESDAY, February 24, 12:45-1:45p GMT in Hall3. The Abyss – SEC

–> Sign up for updates

–>give a webinar talk

–>take a short survey to help inform this activity.

www.us-ocb.org/sedmip/

NEW OCB Activity: Metabarcoding Intercal

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 

This new activity has just launched and there are multiple opportunities to get involved.

→Sign up and nominate speakers for the bi-monthly webinar series. Self-nominations are encouraged.

→Apply to join the working group. Participants will be expected to prepare and analyze samples for 16S or 18S sequences and attend a synthesis meeting either in-person or virtually. Detailed protocols and workflows are expected to be made publicly available.

→Learn more about this activity

Sign up or nominate speakers for the bi-monthly webinar series
Apply to join the working group

Call for Papers: SOLAS–OLAR Special Section on Greenhouse Gas Budgets Across the Land–Ocean Continuum

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, December 29th, 2025 

SOLAS and Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Research (OLAR) are pleased to invite submissions to a special section entitled “Greenhouse Gas Budgets Across the Land–Ocean Continuum” throughout 2026.

Greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide) uptake, production and emission rates in near-coastal systems remain highly uncertain, yet their quantification is crucial to both adequately assess domestic and global inventories in view of ongoing climate change, and to enable accurate reporting as well as effective mitigation measures. This special section welcomes contributions addressing greenhouse gas cycling and emissions in coastal to offshore environments, spanning natural, climate change induced, and other anthropogenic sources/sinks (e.g. aquaculture, waste water plants, river discharge). The aim of the special section is to present a holistic synthesis of the current state-of-the-science in greenhouse gas budgets across the land-ocean continuum.

Key Highlights:
• Article Processing Charges (APCs) are fully waived
• Accepted manuscripts are eligible for a free figure polishing service provided by the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
• Submissions are encouraged throughout 2026
Authors can submit at https://www.editorialmanager.com/olar/ or visit the OLAR journal website at https://spj.science.org/journal/olar. When submitting, select the topic titled “Greenhouse gas budgets across the land-ocean continuum”.

New Air-Sea book chapter

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, December 19th, 2025 

Stanley, R. H. R. and Bell, T. G.: “Air-sea gas exchange and marine gases”, in: Treatise in Geochemistry, 3rd Edition ed., edited by: Andbar, A., and Weis, D., Elsevier, 2024.
Read it here

Mentee + Mentor opp at OSM26 with OAIC – apps closed

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 
Dear members of the air-sea interaction community,
We invite you to participate in a low time-commitment, flexible and hopefully helpful mentoring event at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow. We are setting up a near-peer mentoring program. We expect it to be about a 2 hour commitment for mentors or mentees – spending a bit of time before the meeting prepping and then having one in person get-together (coffee break, lunch, drinks, etc.) at OSM.. For those interested, we will be matching  participants with a next-stage mentor (i.e. grad student with postdoc, postdoc with early faculty, early faculty with late faculty) prior to the conference. The mentoring pair will pick a time that works for both of them to meet during the conference week – we recommend a coffee break on Monday or Tuesday or meeting up directly after sessions end one of those days, but the timing is completely up to you. We suggest that mentors and mentees email each other introductions before the event as well as coordinate schedules. There are cafes and pubs near the conference centers that you could use for your meeting, or you could meet in one of the common spaces of the conference center itself.
Anyone attending the conference is welcome to sign up, even though our committee focuses on researchers who work in the general field of the upper ocean, lower atmosphere, or the interactions between. Please use the link below to sign up if you want to be a mentor, a mentee or both. And please forward this email to friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.
Applications are now closed.
Best wishes, the OAIC (the Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee)

OCB turns 20! Please share how OCB has impacted your career trajectory

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, December 11th, 2025 

OCB turns 20! Please share how OCB has impacted your career trajectory

Tell us how OCB has impacted you

OSM26 OCB + community events

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 

Visit the OCB at booth 45 (exhibit hall map)

See list of OCB-relevant science sessions

Events & Workshops (full list) - includes lots of early career support!

SOLAS, OASIS, and CLIVAR Workshop FAIRSEAS: The Future of Internationally Coordinated Air-Sea Interactions Research - Feb. 21, 2026 (Edinburgh, Scotland - hybrid format) DETAILS

 

Agency Forums

 

Town Hall Meetings

Ocean Outcomes Sessions

IIOSC 2025 + IIOE-2 ECR opp

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, October 10th, 2025 

IIOSC – 2025, International Indian Ocean Science Conference – 2025: Celebrating 10 years of the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition

1-5 December 2025 at INCOIS, Hyderabad, India

Website: https://iiosc2025.incois.gov.in/

Important Dates

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We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for new core committee members of the Early Career Scientists Network (ECSN) of the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2). The ECSN provides a platform for early career researchers working on Indian Ocean science to connect, collaborate, and contribute to the broader goals of the IIOE-2. Eligibility criteria: 1. Applicants should be either a PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, or scientist with less than 10 years since obtaining their PhD or under the age of 40 (whichever comes first). 2. Applicants must be actively engaged in Indian Ocean research. If you are interested, please complete the application form attached to this e-mail and send it to ecsn.iioe@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is 24 October 2025. We encourage motivated early career scientists to apply, and kindly ask you to re-distribute this call within your network so it can reach as many eligible colleagues as possible.

NSF Ocean Sciences Office Hours – September 30

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 

NSF Ocean Sciences Office Hours

September 30, 3-4:30 PM (ET)

Staff and division leadership will share information and updates on preparing proposals, address commonly asked questions, and answer yours. These office hours webinars will not be recorded.

Register https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_yu5jE4EWQl2FyUZ1x2LEAw?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#/registration

2025 Call for OCB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) nominations

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, September 11th, 2025 

OCB is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members, including a new early career member! The term begins in January 2026. The following SSC members are scheduled to rotate off at the end of 2025:

  • Yige Zhang (formerly Texas A&M University) – paleoceanography and paleoclimatology; organic and stable isotope geochemistry; global biogeochemical cycles
  • David “Roo” Nicholson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.) – global biogeochemical cycles in the context of a changing climate, cycling of dissolved gases, including oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane and the noble gases
  • Jessica Luo (NOAA/GFDL) – plankton ecology, food webs, biogeochemical dynamics, global-scale marine ecosystem models
  • Dreux Chappell (USF) – molecular microbial ecology, phytoplankton cultivation/physiology, and trace metal biogeochemistry
  • Anela Choy (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) – Deep-sea biological oceanography, water column food web ecology, pelagic ecosystem dynamics, biochemical tracers

We are especially interested in filling the following expertise gaps:

  • Deep sea biogeochemical and ecological processes
  • Molecular microbial ecology
  • Plankton ecology
  • Nitrogen cycling
  • Paleoceanographic perspectives on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles

To qualify for the early career spot, a nominee must have completed a PhD within the last 4 years; both postdoctoral researchers and new faculty members are eligible. For the early career nominees who are currently postdocs, a letter of support from the nominee’s postdoctoral advisor is required in addition to filling out the nomination form. This letter of support should be sent to hbenway@whoi.edu.

Please consider casting a wide net in submitting nominations. We are seeking to entrain a broad range of voices and ideas in OCB! Nominees can be from any US-based institution (including Univ. Puerto Rico, Univ. Virgin Islands or in other US territories). Please submit nomination(s) (self-nominations are welcome) HERE by November 21. All nominees’ 2-page abbreviated CVs should be sent to hbenway@whoi.edu.

Nominees are primarily evaluated based on their science expertise (relative to emerging expertise gaps) and their leadership potential. We encourage re-nomination if a prior nomination round was not successful. Note that many SSC members are nominated multiple times before becoming members. OCB SSC members serve a 3-year term. To learn more about what the OCB SSC is/does, please visit the SSC page of the OCB website and feel free to reach out to current SSC members about time commitment and their experiences as SSC members.

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