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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 – sign up now

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.
Sign up link is here,
Best wishes, the OAIC (the Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee)

New BECS publication!

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, December 15th, 2025 

The BECS WG paper Elucidating the Role of Marine Benthic Carbon in a Changing World was just published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Schultz, C., Luo, J. Y., Brady, D. C., Fulweiler, R. W., Long, M. H., Petrik, C. M., et al. (2025). Elucidating the role of marine benthic carbon in a changing world. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39, e2025GB008643.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008643

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

Take the TOS Promotion & Tenure Survey

Posted by hbenway 
· Friday, November 14th, 2025 

The Oceanography Society (TOS) is conducting a survey seeking input on experiences with promotion and tenure to gain a deeper understanding of the formal and informal processes that underpin promotion and tenure systems, including perceptions of fairness, mentorship, flexibility, and overall well-being. All data will be de-identified and analyzed in aggregate. Participation is fully voluntary, and you may skip any question you do not wish to answer. This survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

TAKE THE SURVEY

SOLAS, OASIS, and CLIVAR Workshop FAIRSEAS: The Future of Internationally Coordinated Air-Sea Interactions Research

Posted by hbenway 
· Friday, October 31st, 2025 

SAVE THE DATE!

Feb. 21, 2026 (Edinburgh, Scotland – hybrid format)

The workshop will feature presentations and discussions spanning observational, modeling, and remote-sensing approaches to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes at the air-sea interface. We look forward to connecting the SOLAS, OASIS, and CLIVAR communities to advance this vital global science effort.

https://mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-announcement-solas-oasis-clivar-workshop-5873377

 

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.

2026 OCB Activity Proposals due Oct 24 + info webinar recording

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, September 18th, 2025 

Proposal info webinar September 23, 3-4pm

This webinar featured recent successful OCB activities and their PIs, Q&A with Project Office staff on community building and what makes a successful OCB proposal and activity.

Watch the webinar recording

The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2026 calendar year. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities as follows:

  • Workshops and training activities – These activities bring together practitioners across disciplines to build community and/or capacity on OCB-relevant topics (see scientific scope below). A training activity is typically limited to 30-40 participants, and a topical workshop is typically limited to 50-60 participants. A hybrid format is strongly encouraged to broaden input and impact. We also welcome proposals for fully virtual workshops and training activities. The participant selection process for training activities should use a pre-determined evaluative rubric. Budgets for these activities will be capped at $70,000.
  • Small group activities – These activities have a specific focus and set of outcomes. They are typically limited to ~8-16 participants and 1-2 years in duration. The majority of participant interaction must take place virtually. Work is to be completed both synchronously and asynchronously via Zoom and collaborative tools (e.g., Google Suite). A small amount of funding (add-on hotel night, food and beverage) can be provided to accommodate a side meeting in conjunction with other workshops (OCB, AGU, OSM, etc.), and publication costs. If a small group activity is a follow-on or direct outgrowth of a previous OCB activity, this connection should be explicitly noted, and PIs must address how this activity will further advance progress. Budgets for these activities will be capped at $15,000.
  • Regional hubs – This is a relatively new OCB activity model (based on the OCB-supported regional mCDR nodes) that aims to foster community building at the regional scale on OCB-relevant topics, including practitioners across sectors, disciplines, and career stages. A small amount of funding is provided to support one large or a series of smaller gatherings, as well as funding to support outcomes (e.g., publications, outreach materials, etc.). There is no travel/lodging support available for these activities, as all participants should be local or within driving distance of a regional hub. Budgets for these activities will be capped at $10,000.

Read the full solicitation

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