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Get Involved with BECS – Benthic Ecosystem & Carbon Synthesis

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, September 8th, 2023 

Get Involved in OCB Benthic Ecosystem & Carbon Synthesis!

The OCB Benthic Ecosystem and Carbon Synthesis (BECS) Working Group is aimed at understanding the carbon cycle and ecosystems within the land-to-ocean aquatic continuum by improving our understanding of related benthic processes and their representation in ocean and climate models.

The BECS working group is seeking
1) 15 new members - nominate or apply by October 6
2) Give input to guide the working group's activities and focus by October 6
3) Call for speakers for webinar series (ongoing)

Find details on the working group webpage.

MarChemSpec – tutorial and resources

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 

These easy-to-use models are for the calculation of:
• Acid-base equilibria, seawater state parameters, and CaCO3 saturation in natural waters containing the ions of seawater
• Inorganic complexation of trace metals Al, Cd, Co, Cu(II), Fe(II), Fe(III), Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn 
in natural waters

The natural waters of the world do not just consist of seawater of varying salinity. It is important to be able to estimate the influence of changing natural water composition on equilibria and to understand the effects of anthropogenic change in a range of environments. These models help us to do that.

Please visit marchemspec.org for more information about MarChemSpec, our published papers, and for software downloads.

Watch recorded lectures on the MarChemSpec YouTube playlist.

IOCS-2023 Meeting: poster abstract & travel grant deadline approaching

Posted by hbenway 
· Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 

Registration is still open for the International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS-2023) meeting, scheduled to take place from 14 – 17 November 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, with training courses included on 13 November 2023, and the GEO AquaWatch Biennial 1-day Meeting occuring at the same venue.

The IOCS-2023 program includes invited keynote speakers, breakout workshops, town hall sessions, and poster presentations for participants to share their research. The deadline to submit an abstract for the poster session, or to request travel support is 15 September 2023, only 10 days away!

Discounted accommodation for meeting participants is also available through the IOCS-2023 meeting website at https://iocs.ioccg.org/logistics/. Book by 1 October 2023 for the discounted rate.

REMINDER OF IMPORTANT DATES

15 Sep 2023   Deadline for travel support & poster abstracts
1 Oct 2023      Last day for discounted accommodation
14 Oct 2023    Regular registration ends (late rate applies hereafter)

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The IOCS-2023 Planning Committee

OCB2023 recordings

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, August 31st, 2023 
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Thank you for another inspiring OCB summer workshop! You can watch recordings of the plenary sessions, community and agency updated on the OCB YouTube channel. The information-packed agency presentation slides are posted on the agenda page. If you are interested in other presenters' slides, please reach out to the presenter directly. Until next year...

Mark your calendars for OCB2024: June 10-13, 2024!

Submit your OCB2024 plenary session ideas by Sept. 30.

OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide. Version 1.1.1. available for download

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, August 18th, 2023 
The OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide is intended to provide current and prospective users of data generated by biogeochemical (BGC) sensors deployed on the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) arrays with the information and guidance needed for them to ensure that the data are science-ready. This guide is aimed at researchers with an interest or some experience in ocean biogeochemical processes. We expect that users of this guide will have some background in oceanography; however, we do not assume any prior experience working with BGC sensors or their data. While initially envisioned as a “cookbook” for end users seeking to work with OOI BGC sensor data, our Working Group and Beta Testers realized that the processing required to meet the specific needs of all end users across a wide range of potential scientific applications and combinations of OOI BGC data from different sensors and platforms couldn’t be synthesized into a single “recipe”.
MORE RESOURCES
https://www.us-ocb.org/ooi-dataset-community/
https://github.com/hipalevsky/ooi-bgc-cookbook
AUTHORS
Palevsky, Hilary
Clayton, Sophie
Atamanchuk, Dariia
Battisti, Roman
Batryn, Jennifer
Bourbonnais, Annie
Briggs, Ellen M.
Carvalho, Filipa
Chase, Alison P.
Eveleth, Rachel
Fatland, Rob
Fogaren, Kristen E.
Fram, Jonathan Peter
Hartman, Susan E.
Le Bras, Isabela
Manning, Cara C. M.
Needoba, Joseph A.
Neely, Merrie Beth
Oliver, Hilde
Reed, Andrew C.
Rheuban, Jennie E.
Schallenberg, Christina
Vardaro, Michael F.
Walsh, Ian
Wingard, Christopher

2024 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation and informational webinar!

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 

2024 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation and informational webinar

The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2024 calendar year. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities as follows:

• Topical workshops (50-70 people) that bring together expertise across disciplines to foster discussions and build momentum in new OCB-relevant research areas (previous OCB scoping workshops)

• Working groups (8-12 members) to address targeted science goals and develop products that benefit and engage the broader OCB community

• Training activities (Up to 40 participants, incl. instructors) to build capacity in different areas of OCB research

Read the full solicitation

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Questions? Need advice on developing your proposal?
Join us - hear from authors of recent successful proposals on process + Q&A

Sept 26, 12PM ET: Informational Session on the OCB Activity Proposal: Conceiving and leading an effective OCB activity  REGISTER

IMPORTANT DATES

Sept 22: To vet an idea for an OCB activity prior to developing a proposal, contact Heather Benway (hbenway@whoi.edu) in the OCB Project Office to arrange a call before Sept. 22.

Oct 13: To receive an initial round of feedback on your proposal (incl. budgetary guidance), submit a near-final draft of your proposal to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by October 13. Heather and 1-2 OCB SSC members will look it over and provide initial feedback within 5-7 days of the final deadline.

Oct 27: Submit FINAL workshop proposals electronically to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by October 27, 2023 at midnight (ET) for consideration by the OCB SSC.

Decisions will be announced by the end of the 2023 calendar year.

Read the full solicitation

NEW OCB-relevent meeting session list

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, July 10th, 2023 

Are you organizing a session at an ASLO, OSM, AGU, or other large meeting? Submit your OCB-relevent session via this new OCB form to share them with the community.

Are you looking to submit an abstract to present at one of these meetings? View the session compilation with descriptions, deadlines and more information here: https://tinyurl.com/OCB-related-sessions

 

New publication from the OCB Mixotrophs & Mixotrophy Working Group

Posted by hbenway 
· Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 

Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities

Nicole C Millette, Rebecca J Gast, Jessica Y Luo, Holly V Moeller, Karen Stamieszkin, Ken H Andersen, Emily F Brownlee, Natalie R Cohen, Solange Duhamel, Stephanie Dutkiewicz ... Show more

Journal of Plankton Research, fbad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad020

Published: 09 June 2023

Learn more about this working group on their web page! And check out the press release from Bigelow Laboratory on this and another recent mixotrophy publication.

Ocean Carbon Exchange

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, October 17th, 2019 

Find jobs, funding and student opps, read news from the OCB Project Office, community and partner organizations, view upcoming meeting and deadlines and more in the Ocean Carbon Exchange eNewsletter, sent every other Thursday. Read the latest issue and sign up here. Please send announcements to ocb_news@whoi.edu.

 

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