Meta-Eukomics Webinar
Speakers: Sonya Dyhrman (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ.) and Lucia Campese (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples)
January 28, 2pm ET REGISTER
Thank you for submitting your fantastic plenary session ideas. The OCB SSC has announced the lineup for next year:
OCB2025 plenary topics (final session titles TBD)
Constraining the dark ocean carbon cycle (Co-chairs: Anne Dekas, Anela Choy, Jeff Bowman, Randie Bundy)
Land-ocean connectivity (joint with North American Carbon Program) (Co-chairs: Jessica Luo, 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)
If you haven't heard, the OCB Summer Workshop is heading west for 2025! OCB will hold its annual summer science workshop from Tuesday, June 3 to Friday, June 6, 2025 at the NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, California). A few things besides location will be different next year – e.g., we will arrange hotel blocks but each participant will need to reserve and pay for their own room by a given deadline (or book their own accommodations elsewhere). Stay tuned for other OCB2025 announcements.
Never attended and want to know more about the summer workshop? Find OCB2024 and previous summer workshop recordings on the OCB YouTube Channel.
Advertise your OCB-relevant special session via this OCB form.
Browse the compilation of submitted sessions with descriptions, deadlines and more information here: https://tinyurl.com/OCB-related-sessions
Abstracts due January 15, 2025, 13:00 CET
Workshop website: https://www.egu25.eu/
Join the USCCSP Third Decadal US Carbon Cycle Science Plan Town Hall December 12 at 12.30pm during AGU.
Are you an early career scientist who would like to share your research on carbon in deltas with the Leaky Deltas community?
The Leaky Deltas scoping workshop will focus on deltaic systems to build a network of modelers, experimentalists, and field scientists working on deltas in this era of unprecedented climate change and other anthropogenic stresses. Despite the importance of deltas and blue carbon ecosystems to the global carbon cycle and coastal communities, land-to-ocean parameterizations in Earth System models are highly simplified and do not mechanistically include many of the processes involved in cycling carbon in these areas. Leaky Deltas aims to bring together a diverse group who are committed to exploring the physical, temporal, and biogeochemical processes that modulate fluxes of carbon to and from global deltas through a series of webinars leading up to a workshop to be held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 17-20, 2025. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.us-ocb.org/leaky-deltas-workshop-2025/.
If you would like to share your work in our webinar series, please apply to give a presentation in our January webinar. We seek graduate students and early career scientists (within 4 years of PhD) to give 12-minute talks, with time for questions.
Previous webinars in this series are available on YouTube and include presentations by:
Robert Twilley and Marc Simard
Muriel Bruckner (LSU) and Anastasia Pillouras (PSU)
Bob Aller
Bin Zhao and Thomas Bianchi
Christophe Rabouille
Join us for a mCDR community gathering at ARTECHOUSE DC during AGU24!
Connect with fellow members of the mCDR Community in an inspiring setting – share ideas, network, and enjoy a night of small bites, drinks and immersive art!
New webinar series! Find out more 4D-BGC group website: https://4d-bgc.github.io
Past: Webinar #1 on November 26 at 0600 EST/1200 CET
Title: Advancements in Biogeophysical 4D reconstructions: New methods development and exploitation of existing products for scientific investigations
Presenter: Dr. Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli Italian National Research Council
This presentation will address two key topics: the development of physically-informed neural network methods for the joint reconstruction of physical and biological variables in the Mediterranean Sea, and the analysis of existing data-driven 4D reconstructions of POC, combined with advanced dynamical diagnostics, to uncover the interannual variability of organic carbon export in the global ocean. The first part will introduce the approach tested in the European Space Agency’s 4DMED-Sea project, while the second will focus on research conducted within the H2020 AtlantEco project.
Webinar Series Information: The 4D-BGC Working Group seeks to enhance access and utility of Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo observations through four-dimensional (4D) data products. These advanced data products aim to refine our understanding of ocean biogeochemistry, improve biogeochemical models and reanalysis products, and provide valuable insights for policy-making. The goal of this webinar series is to introduce new and in-development BGC data products, review techniques used to develop data products from in situ observations, and to explore ways in which 4D-BGC products are leveraged to answer scientific questions.
This event will highlight, in parallel, the quantitative aspects of Blue Carbon (e.g., their roles in NDCs) as well as the more qualitative aspects of Blue Carbon (e.g., cultural ecosystem services). Specifically, this event will address the ways in which blue carbon has been and can be further included in GG inventories and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), through the 2025 NDC revision cycle. This event will highlight some of the tools the United States Government and Pacific partners have created to track and quantify blue carbon sinks, and to identify effective opportunities for conservation and restoration as well as emphasize the
intrinsic and cultural ecosystem services provided by blue carbon in the Pacific.
EXTENDED OCB Scientific Steering Committee Nominations by Friday, November 22!
We are seeking additional nominees with expertise in the following areas:
The following SSC members are scheduled to rotate off at the end of 2024:
Please consider casting a diverse net in submitting nominations. We are seeking to entrain new voices and ideas in OCB! Nominees should be at US-based institutions (including Univ. Puerto Rico, Univ. Virgin Islands or in other US territories, minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, etc.). Please submit your nomination (self-nominations are welcome) here.
Nominees are evaluated using a rubric that includes consideration of geography (balance across the SSC), science expertise, career stage and other diversity and equity measures. We encourage re-nomination if a prior nomination round was not successful. Many SSC members are nominated multiple times before becoming members! OCB SSC members serve a 3-year term. For more information on the OCB SSC, including a list of current and previous SSC members, the SSC charge and terms of reference, and links to the past year of SSC minutes, please visit the SSC page of the OCB website. 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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