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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

Help assess how fish contribute to the ocean’s carbon cycle

Posted by hbenway 
· Thursday, October 30th, 2025 

The role of fish and other metazoans in the Biological Carbon Pump has long been overlooked. As part of an effort to identify the processes through which fish, krill, and squid contribute to carbon sequestration — and to evaluate where and how fishing might have the largest impact — we are conducting an IPCC-style confidence assessment of current scientific understanding.

This initiative originated during the ICES Workshop WKFISHCARBON2, held last April in Copenhagen. We invite the community to share insights by completing a short survey (~15 minutes, also accessible on smartphones).

Your contribution will help strengthen our collective understanding of how metazoans support the biological carbon pump, and to identify research priorities.

Take the survey here.

A glossary of the main terms used in the survey is available here.

Please feel free to reach out with any suggestions or comments. We are very grateful for your time and contribution!

Jérôme Pinti, Emma Cavan, and Gaël Mariani

(jpinti@gmri.org, e.cavan@imperial.ac.uk, gm@wmu.se)

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.

OCB2025 recordings – a week of science, connection, community

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, September 4th, 2025 

Thank you for being a part of OCB2025 online Summer Science Workshop for a week of science, connection, and community - June 2-6.

Your watch recordings of the workshop on the OCB YouTube channel.

OCB2025 plenary sessions

Constraining the dark ocean carbon cycle: Implications for ocean carbon budgets? (Co-chairs: Anne Dekas, Anela Choy, Jeff Bowman, Randie Bundy)

Rivers to coasts: Biogeochemical linkages and environmental resilience (joint with North American Carbon Program) (Co-chairs: Fei Da, Kanchan Maiti, Shaily Rahman, Libby Larson, David Butman)

Rapidly changing systems (Co-chairs: Kristen Krumhardt, Rachel Stanley, Melissa Melendez)

Bridging scales in the ocean carbon cycle (Co-chairs: Zachary Erickson, Tim DeVries, Roo Nicholson, Daniel Whitt, Dreux Chappell

Learn more and see the schedule

NEW Report: Pathways Connecting Climate Changes to the Deep Ocean

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, August 28th, 2025 

Now published – workshop report from the Pathways Connecting Climate Changes to the Deep Ocean: Tracing physical, biogeochemical, and ecological signals from the surface to the deep sea
A joint OCB-US CLIVAR scoping workshop

This workshop will brought together observational oceanographers and modelers across physical, biogeochemical, and ecological communities to assess our understanding of pathways connecting the surface to the seafloor and to develop recommendations for improved detection and attribution of change in the global deep ocean system.

Workshop goals:

  1. Provide an updated comprehensive assessment of the deep ocean’s state and changes across disciplines, of key quantities in which these changes are expressed, and of pathways and timescales connecting the surface to the seafloor.
  2. Review existing observation and modeling tools and their adequacy for constraining, understanding, and attributing changes in the deep ocean system. Identify critical knowledge and observational data gaps and model deficiencies.
  3. Develop a collective set of recommendations for improved detection and attribution of change in the global deep ocean system, with a focus on better serving and supporting deep ocean science across disciplines.
  4. Build an interdisciplinary network of ocean modelers and observers across disciplines. Our aim is to open communication channels and facilitate collaborative exchange of data, knowledge, and tools across communities.

Scientific Organizing Committee
Xinfeng Liang (Univ. Delaware), Monique Messié (MBARI), Leslie Smith (Your Ocean Consulting LLC, DOOS), Isabela Le Bras (WHOI), Patrick Heimbach (Univ. Texas, Austin), Helen Pillar (Univ. Texas, Austin), Zachary Erickson (NOAA/PMEL), Charlie Stock (NOAA/GFDL)

Get the report

Workshop website

 

METS RCN workshop recordings

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 

Watch recordings from the METS RCN workshop held in April on the OCB YouTube Channel.

International Workshop: FAIR Data Practices for Ship-based Marine Ecological Time Series
April 22-25, 2025 (ASU/BIOS, Bermuda)

Workshop report: https://www.us-ocb.org/fair-data-practices-for-marine-ecological-time-series/

More on METS RCN Workshop: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/mets-rcn/projects/fair-ship-based-ocean-time-series-international-workshop/

PAUSE on all bulk travel requests

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, May 2nd, 2025 

Until further notice, OCB will not be able to consider bulk travel support requests.

We will post an announcement if this changes.

New: Connecting Observations to Models

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, April 10th, 2025 

Ombres, E., H. Benway, K. Bisson, A. Larkin, L. Perotti, L. Wright-Fairbanks (eds.) (2024). Connecting Observations to Models: Biogeochemical Observing and Modeling Workshop, 2024 Summary Report and Suggested Steps Forward. Published Date: 2024 Series: NOAA technical memorandum OAR-OAP ; 6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25923/wpdj-ja69

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