Let us know if you are interested in the upcoming OCB Workshop on Extreme Events (learn more here).
Let us know if you are interested in the upcoming OCB Workshop on Extreme Events (learn more here).
The US Carbon Cycle Science Program and the North American Carbon Program are in the midst of planning a workshop on research opportunities, partnerships and investments of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). The intended workshop participants include funders, scientists, policy-makers and practitioners with expertise, resources and/or capabilities to inform federal CDR research opportunities, partnerships and investments related to air, land, coasts and societal dimensions of CDR.
This virtual workshop will be conducted on Monday August 1, 2022; Tuesday August 2, 2022; and Thursday August 4, 2022. (Friday August 12, 2022 – hold for work sessions if needed).
If you are interested in participating, and/or would like to provide input into the workshop planning, please complete this Expression of Interest Form.
SOCATv2022 is now available via www.socat.info!
The ocean absorbs a quarter of the global CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions from human activity. The community-led Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (www.socat.info)is key for the quantification of ocean CO2 uptake and its variation, now and in the future. SOCAT version 2022 has quality-controlled in situ surface ocean fCO2(fugacity of CO2) measurements made on ships, moorings, autonomous and drifting surface platforms for the global ocean and coastal seas from 1957 to 2021. The main SOCAT synthesis and gridded products contain 33.7 million fCO2values with an estimated accuracy of < 5 μatm. A further 6.4 million fCO2 sensor data with an accuracy of 5 to 10 μatm are separately available. SOCAT is used for quantification of ocean CO2 uptake and ocean acidification and for evaluation of climate models and sensor data. The SOCAT synthesis products are a crucial step in the value chain based on in situ inorganic carbon measurements of the ocean, which provides policy makers with vital information in climate negotiations. The need for accurate knowledge of global ocean CO2 uptake and its variation makes sustained funding of in situ surface ocean CO2 observations and their synthesis imperative.
A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed to the timely, annual release of SOCATv2022!
Dear NASA PIs – We wanted to bring an important topic to your attention: the NASA EOS era is coming to a close.
Terra and Aqua are aging spacecrafts, and while they are still collecting valuable data and producing critical products, the number of spacecraft anomalies is increasing, especially over the past year. The missions are also increasingly expensive to operate (~90 mil/yr; spacecraft operations; product team support); this is starting to cut into the execution of the future ESO missions, as directed to NASA for implementation by the 2017 NASEM Decadal Survey.
Thus, NASA HQ has been discussing when Phase F for Terra, Aura, and Aqua will start, which is their end of life. The current discussions put end of missions likely in 2023. Data collection is being anticipated to stop in the summer of 2023, and missions will likely not participate in the next senior review. This means there would not be an overlap between MODIS and PACE.
The SNPP and JPSS satellites are being looked to for continuity products, though it is not clear how long NOAA intends to operate SNPP; NASA will continue to support them until their end of mission, and the collaboration with future JPSS missions will continue.
We know the Earth observations and data products from MODIS are critical to our community, and we are working to ensure we continue to have stable data products between sensors on Terra, Aqua, SNPP, and JPSS platforms, so that continuity is not interrupted. However, it is critical that we know of issues that you as the community see with the end of MODIS. There may be room for discussion on which data products need to be continued/maintained during KDP-F. We ask that you please let us know your thoughts/concerns regarding the retirement of MODIS in 2023.
Please write directly to Joel/myself with your thoughts/concerns on MODIS datatermination in 2023. We want to make sure we understand all the impacts that the end of Terra and Aqua will have on our community in order to share these with our leadership.
Thank you,
Laura and Joel
Laura Lorenzoni, NASA – laura.lorenzoni@nasa.gov
Joel Scott, NASA – joel.scott@nasa.gov
The 2022 OCB Summer Workshop will be held in-person June 20-23, 2022 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. We will live stream plenary sessions, and will share recordings after the event. Register for streaming (via Zoom) – one access link for all meeting days.
Follow and contribute to the workshop conversation on Twitter using #OCB2022
OCB2022 Plenary Topics
Closing the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes (June 20)
Co-chairs: Galen McKinley (Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory), Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Tim DeVries (UCSB)
Tidal Carbon Exports from Coastal Wetlands as a Significant Component of Blue Carbon Sequestration (June 22)
Co-chairs: Aleck Wang (WHOI), Jaime Palter (URI), Maria Tzortziou (CUNY/CCNY) Xinping Hu (TAMUCC), Jeff Bowman (SIO)
Extreme Ocean Events (June 20)
Co-chairs: Patrick Rafter (UCI), Victoria Coles (VIMS), Randie Bundy (UW)
Coastal Observing Systems to Understand and Predict Ecosystem Changes (June 23)
Co-chairs: Charlie Stock (NOAA GFDL), Dreux Chappell (ODU), Jeff Bowman (SIO), Susanne Craig (NASA GSFC)
Our Evolving Understanding of Biologically Mediated Carbon Export (June 21)
Co-chairs: Susanne Menden-Deuer (URI), Emily Osborne (NOAA AOML), Seth Bushinsky (UH)
Find more info on the workshop website
GO-BGC Science Webinar 2: Understanding ecological dynamics using BGC-Argo data
Please join us for the quarterly GO-BGC webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program. This webinar will be focused on investigations of phytoplankton phenology and variability at regional to global scales using a range of chemical and bio-optical sensors on the BGC-Argo floats. We will hear 3 short presentations about exciting new work in this area, followed by a community discussion about best practices, challenges, and future perspectives of using BGC-Argo data to advance our understanding of ecological dynamics and the footprint of progressive climate change on the ocean. Recordings will be available on the OCB or GO-BGC website.
Agenda for June 29, 10 AM Pacific/ 1 PM Eastern
Yui Takeshita (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): An update for GO-BGC program
Mariana Bif (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): The impact of heatwaves on the northeast Pacific ecosystem
Nicholas Bock (Columbia University): Biogeographical classification of the global ocean from BGC-Argo Floats
Marin Cornec (NOAA Pacific Environmental Laboratory): Dynamics of the deep chlorophyll maxima at a global scale based on bio-optical measurements of BGC-Argo floats
Discussion
GO-BGC Webinar Series Overview
Hundreds of Biogeochemical (BGC) profiling floats have been deployed worldwide, and the number of floats is expected to continue to increase in the coming years. Specifically, the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC) is a NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure project that is funded to deploy 500 BGC floats globally over the next 5 years. We expect additional significant contributions from other US and international institutions, which will build towards a sustained global array of BGC-Argo floats.
The quality-controlled, freely available data from these floats are transforming our capacity to observe, quantify, and understand ocean biogeochemical processes and how they are responding to anthropogenic pressures (e.g., acidification and deoxygenation). With improved constraints on the biological carbon pump and air-sea CO2 exchange, these data sets will also inform marine ecosystem management and decision making.
This webinar series, hosted by GO-BGC and the OCB Project Office, aims to build and support a growing community of biogeochemical float data users. As the BGC-Argo array matures and expands its global coverage, so will the potential for scientific discovery. We hope that the applications and research findings highlighted in this webinar series will demonstrate the potential for these globally distributed datasets and inspire the community to explore novel applications, scientific questions, and new collaborations in the use of BGC-Argo data.
Webinars will be hosted roughly quarterly. Subsequent webinars will focus on scientific or geographic themes. We will highlight emerging research results based on BGC-Argo data, and aim to promote early career researchers. All webinars will be recorded and made available through the OCB and GO-BGC websites.
Organizers
Yui Takeshita, MBARI; Alison Gray, U. Washington; Yibin Huang, NOAA PMEL; Channing Prend, SIO; Jonathan Sharp, NOAA PMEL; Lynne Talley, SIO
OCB Project Office - Heather Benway, Mai Maheigan, Mary Zawoysky
To learn more, visit these websites
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The first webinar of this series was held on March 30th, 10-11 am Pacific/1-2 pm Eastern. It will covered the current status of BGC floats worldwide, projected float deployment locations, and tools that we have developed to streamline data access, followed by community discussion and Q&A.
A community meeting (a repeat of a recent Ocean Sciences Town Hall Meeting to enable broader participation) to learn more about a new NSF EarthCube-funded Research Coordination Network for Marine Ecological Time Series (METS-RCN) tasked with bringing together members of the oceanographic, data science, and informatics communities to build consensus on key components of a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data model for METS, including common vocabularies, metadata reporting standards, and data citation practices; engage broader METS data users (e.g., modelers, educators, decision makers) to facilitate broader applications of METS data; and build community capacity for METS data analysis, statistical methods, and data-model integration. This town hall meeting will also highlight a concurrent EuroSea-funded project led by members of the RCN leadership team focused on developing a pilot biogeochemical time series data product to help visualize spatial patterns and trends across ocean basins.
AGENDA: FAIR data solutions to support a global observing system of marine ecological time series
1) Overview of METS RCN (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI)
2) What is FAIR and why do we need it in ocean science? (Adam Shepherd, BCO-DMO)
3) Shipboard time series use cases
3a) Carbon-relevant biogeochemical EOVs in a time series data product (Nico Lange, GEOMAR)
3b) Hawai’i Ocean Time-series (HOT) parameter mapping to Climate & Forecast (CF) vocabulary (Fernando Carvalho-Pacheco, UH)
3c) ENVRI-FAIR and Intelligent query dissolved oxygen use case (Justin Buck, NOC)
4) Q&A and open discussion
May 9, 2022 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
Learn more: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/mets-rcn/
Dates: June 20-23, 2022 (Woods Hole, MA)
Registration opened April 1 and has filled, we are now taking waitlist registrations. Contact us for more info.
OCB2022 Plenary Topics
Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes
Co-chairs: Galen McKinley (Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory), Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Tim DeVries (UCSB)
Tidal Carbon Exports from Coastal Wetlands as a Significant Component of Blue Carbon Sequestration
Co-chairs: Aleck Wang (WHOI), Jaime Palter (URI), Maria Tzortziou (CUNY/CCNY) Xinping Hu (TAMUCC), Jeff Bowman (SIO)
Extreme Ocean Events
Co-chairs: Patrick Rafter (UCI), Victoria Coles (VIMS), Randie Bundy (UW)
Coastal Observing Systems to Understand and Predict Ecosystem Changes
Co-chairs: Charlie Stock (NOAA GFDL), Dreux Chappell (ODU), Jeff Bowman (SIO), Susanne Craig (NASA GSFC)
Our Evolving Understanding of Biologically Mediated Carbon Export
Co-chairs: Susanne Menden-Deuer (URI), Emily Osborne (NOAA AOML), Seth Bushinsky (UH)
Find more info on the workshop website
The National Science Foundation Biological Oceanography Program is pleased to announce a new event series that will begin this month: Biological Oceanography Office Hours.
Office Hours will be a new opportunity for our scientific community to ask questions about the Program and our review process. We encourage anyone considering submitting a research proposal or who has questions about our Program to attend.
Our Office Hours events will take place during the final week of each month. Each event will first focus on a specific topic, followed by an open question and answer session. We encourage everyone to attend even if they are not interested in the selected topic, as there will also be time allocated for general questions during each event.
Our first event will take place on Monday, April 25th, 3-4 pm ET. Our topic will be Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER Proposals submission to Biological Oceanography. To attend, please register for the meeting via Zoom. Advance registration is required.
Future topics include: Annual Reports, Proposal Review, Applied and Foundational Research, and more!For any questions or further inquiries, please contact program Science Assistant Joe Townsend (jotownse@nsf.gov) or Program Director Mike Sieracki (msierack@nsf.gov).
New OCB Scoping Workshop (October 23-26, 2022 at North Carolina State Univ. in Raleigh, NC, in person) : C-saw Time domain controls on carbon storage, release, and transformation in coastal and estuarine waters following extreme events.
The aim of this workshop is to push forward our knowledge of extreme weather and fire effects on coastal carbon cycling. This OCB Scoping Workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists to build a community of monitors/observers, experimentalists, and modelers to address these challenging knowledge gaps across these spatial and temporal domains.
More information here: https://www.us-ocb.org/c-saw-extreme-events-workshop/
The workshop application will open in July. If this sounds interesting to you and you'd like to stay informed about the workshop, please fill out our expression of interest form to help us gauge community interest and ensure that you are notified when the workshop application opens.
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