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Apply now for IOCCG Summer Lecture Series

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 

Applications are now open for the 2022 International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) Summer Lecture Series.

The course is scheduled to take place from 18-29 July 2022 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), which is part of the IMEV (Institut de la Mer, de Villefranche), and hosts the Marine Optics, Remote Sensing, and Biogeochemical Applications group.

As in previous years, this high-level training course will be dedicated to the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing. Further details can be found on the Summer Lecture Series Website at: https://ioccg.org/what-we-do/training-and-education/ioccg-sls-2022/

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2022

Apply here: https://ioccg.org/2022-sls-application-form/

OCB-US CLIVAR Ecological Forecasting Workshop webinar

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, January 7th, 2022 

OCB-US CLIVAR Ecological Forecasting Workshop webinar with Dr Simone Alin
January 11, 2021

The Olympic Coast as a sentinel: Integrated social-ecological vulnerability assessment and co-developing ocean resource management tools with tribal and state managers

As part of a regional vulnerability analysis, our team synthesized existing oceanographic data sets and model projections to understand how the frequency, duration, and severity of ocean acidification and co-stressor (warming, hypoxia) conditions may change between now and the end of the century and affect biological resources. Meanwhile, social scientists worked with Washington's coastal treaty tribes to identify the marine species of highest cultural and subsistence value to the tribes and to assess social vulnerability of tribal communities to changing ocean conditions. Ultimately the oceanographic synthesis and projections will inform tribal adaptation actions. On a related project, many of the same team worked with state and tribal managers to develop tools useful to managers of the Dungeness crab fishery in state and tribal fishing areas. In this talk, I will briefly describe scientific results and products of our collective work, but will focus as much on the challenges and lessons learned from working with this diverse team, consisting of natural and social scientists (working across academic institutions; federal, state, and tribal agencies) and tribal community members

This webinar is an activity of the upcoming Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop (OCB-US CLIVAR), April 12, 2022 - April 14, 2022 (Woods Hole, MA and Virtual)

https://usclivar.org/meetings/ecological-forecasting

US SOLAS Science Plan release

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, December 20th, 2021 

In October 2019, OCB convened a workshop for US-based scientists working at the air-sea interface to identify research priorities and facilitate the communication and collaboration required for future significant research advances. Leadership for this workshop was provided by the Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee (OAIC). Emerging from the discussions at the workshop is a new US SOLAS Science Plan to help coalesce the air-sea interaction research community around a common set of science goals and research priorities and foster a more cohesive US contribution to international SOLAS. Please view and download the new science plan via the link below.

Stanley, R, T Bell, Y Gao, C Gaston, D Ho, D Kieber, K Mackey, N Meskhidze, B Miller, H Potter, P Vlahos, P Yager, B Alexander, S Beaupre, S Craig, G Cutter, S Emerson, A Frossard, S Gasso, B Haus, W Keene, W Landing, R Moore, D Ortiz-Suslow, J Palter, F Paulot, E Saltzman, D Thornton, A Wozniak, L Zamora, H Benway. 2021. US SOLAS Science Report. 62pp. DOI 10.1575/1912/27821

New OCB Activities for 2022

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 

Announcing the New OCB Activities beginning in 2022 – more information coming soon.

Training activity
What’s behind the curtain of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? (PIs: J. Werdell, B. Cairns, I. Cetinić, A. Mannino, V. Martins, L. Remer, P. Zhai)

Workshop & working group
Problem solving in marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR): Identifying important questions and capabilities for studying new human perturbations to the ocean carbon system (PIs: J. Cross, L. Bach, J. Palter, C. Reimers, M. Long, P. Rafter)

Workshops
Building a cost-effective coastal biogeochemical observing network in collaboration with the commercial fishing community (PIs: Z. A. Wang, J. Rheuban, G. Gawarkiewicz, J. Manning, E. Pelletier; C. Van Vranken, D. Bethoney)

OCB Fish, Fisheries and Carbon workshop: An emerging research direction in the ocean biological carbon sink (PIs: E. Cavan, G. Saba, R. Sumaila, S. Hill) – virtual

C-SAW: Time domain controls on carbon storage, release, and transformation in coastal and estuarine waters following extreme events (PI: C. Osburn)

Abstracts open: Ecological Forecasting along N. American Coastlines Workshop

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, December 13th, 2021 

Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop, a joint workshop between OCB and US CLIVAR will take place April 12-14, 2022. Currently the plan is to host the workshop in person in Woods Hole, MA with virtual participation options.

Abstract submission is open for poster presentations (deadline January 21)

Coastal areas share unique intersections of large-scale climate variability and local hydrology, wetland, benthic and pelagic ecosystems, and anthropogenic pressures. Forecasting of harmful environmental conditions for planning, adaptation, and mitigation purposes is both complex and urgently needed. Recent syntheses have highlighted sources of predictability for ecological forecasting at seasonal to interannual timescales relevant to specific applications (e.g., fisheries), but they have also revealed challenges such as a disconnect between open ocean and coastal and estuarine forecasting communities as well as the significant challenge of data availability.

This workshop aims at bringing together climate scientists, biogeochemists, and global and regional modelers to:

  1. Examine the connections between large-scale physical and biogeochemical processes and coastal processes, and identify sources of predictability at daily to decadal timescales that are specific to regions along US coastlines.
  2. Assess the suitability and needs for observations that characterize key physical and biogeochemical ecosystem drivers, their interactions across scales, and their vulnerability to climate change and in different coastal regions.
  3. Assess the major gaps in both understanding and modeling/observing capabilities that limit our ability to produce ecological forecasts at the scales needed for management along US coastlines, and identify potential avenues for accelerating progress.

Leading up to the workshop, the Scientific Organizing Committee will put together a blog to collect contributions by prospective participants on their specific research activities, results, and challenges. In addition, a webinar series will be organized to highlight needs by practitioners and end users. These activities will initiate interactions among participants and contribute to the definition of the major challenges.

More details on the workshop website.

Report Release & Briefing: A Research Strategy for Ocean CDR and Sequestration

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, December 10th, 2021 

Webinar Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 11am-12pm ET

View recording

The Committee on A Research Strategy for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration will be releasing their report entitled A Research Strategy for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration on December 8, 2021, at 11:00 AM ET. A public report release webinar will also be held from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET on December 8, 2021. The report provides a path forward for research and development needed to assess the viability of promising ocean-based CDR approaches.

Learn more about the study

OCB Scoping Workshop: Laying the foundation for a potential future BioGeoSCAPES program Virtual Meeting November 10-12, 2021

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Saturday, November 20th, 2021 

OCB Scoping Workshop:

BioGeoSCAPES (www.biogeoscapes.org) is an international initiative to integrate knowledge on marine microbial identity and physiology within frameworks of community ecology and global ocean biogeochemistry. The vision is an improved, predictive, and quantitative understanding of ocean metabolism on a changing planet can be achieved by combining detailed information on plankton cell status, biochemical processes, and species interactions with measurements of nutrient fluxes, concentrations, and chemical speciation (e.g., macronutrients, including inorganic and organic carbon, micronutrients and vitamins).

Fig 1. The BioGeoSCAPES development plan has incorporated numerous events and activities to enable scientific community building and feedback. Ocean metabolism is at the heart of the planetary support system. BioGeoSCAPES aims to examine ocean metabolism at the cellular, population, and ecosystem levels.

A scoping workshop held on November 8-10, 2018 (Woods Hole, MA) was a key step in the development of BioGeoSCAPES. The workshop included 28 participants from ten countries, each serving as ambassadors for their respective countries. Participants decided on  the program name, mission statement, and strategic plan. Ambassadors were charged with organizing national meetings to share the idea and vision of the BioGeoSCAPES program with their national colleagues and discuss research priorities for the program. Since 2018, national meetings have been held in Japan, China, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, and France.

 

BioGeoSCAPES Mission

To improve our understanding of the functioning and regulation of ocean metabolism and its interaction with nutrient cycling within the context of a hierarchical seascape perspective

 

The US held their virtual national planning workshop on November 10-12, 2021, with 124 participants. The objectives of the meeting were to: a) communicate the current status of the international BioGeoSCAPES planning effort, b) engage US-based scientists from a range of disciplines who can help develop and champion the BioGeoSCAPES program, and c) identify US science priorities and ways to contribute to a US and international science plan.

Presentations provided an introduction to the initiative, updates on underway intercalibration efforts for ‘omics measurements, examples of BioGeoSCAPES-like research studies, and a summary of ongoing efforts and activities from international partners. Participants of all career stages shared their research and engaged with other workshop participants during two poster sessions in GatherTown. Multiple small-group break-out discussions sought input and feedback on community-building efforts and strategies, including potential barriers to interdisciplinary research and inclusivity, compelling questions and hypotheses that could be addressed by a BioGeoSCAPES program, needed intercalibration activities, and discussions on the kinds of research activities that could contribute to such a program. A report will be made available in the near future.

For more information on the workshop and to view recordings of the talks, please go to the OCB BioGeoSCAPES scoping workshop website. There are still ample opportunities for interested scientists at all levels to engage with the BioGeoSCAPES program. You can obtain more information and sign up for the BioGeoSCAPES Newsletter at https://www.biogeoscapes.org/.

Call for cruise submissions GLODAPv2.2022

Posted by hbenway 
· Monday, November 1st, 2021 
GLODAPv2.2021 has been successfully released! But its already time to look ahead and prepare the upcoming update GLODAPv2.2022. To start off, we are now officially calling for new cruise submissions. We are looking for cruises which have “carbon-relevant” data, i.e. have a finalized cruise bottle file with at least one:
• Inorganic sub-parameter (TA, DIC, pH, fCO2) and/or
• Transient tracer (CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, SF6, CCl4) and/or
• Carbon isotope (C13, C14)
The submission deadline for the next update is the 17th of January 2022. For submissions or questions, PIs are encouraged to check the attached submission requirements document and contact Nico Lange (nlange@geomar.de).

GLODAP cruise submission requirements

Mandatory:

A merged “bottle-file“ including:

  • EXPOCODE
  • DATE
  • BTLNBR
  • STNNBR
  • CASTNO
  • Final and flagged CTD-DATA
  • If no CTD-SAL present then final and flagged salinity bottle data
  • Either:
    • Final and flagged Inorganic carbon data (All measured sub-parameters of inorganic carbon of the cruise)
    • Final and flagged tracer data
    • Final and flagged carbon isotopes
  • Metadata-Info with (at least) responsible PIs, Chief Scientist, Vessel, Cruise-Date

Ideal/Optional:

  • Bottle file includes:
    • Final and flagged nutrient data
    • Final and flagged oxygen data
    • All other measured bottle parameters
  • Data already submitted to public repository (e.g. NCEI) – In this case only a link to the data repository is needed
  • Cruise report present
  • Analyzing technique, used instruments, precision and accuracy meta-info present
  • File in WOCE exchange format (ontology, number of decimal places, .csv file)

 

Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, November 1st, 2021 

Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop 

WHEN: Nov 1-3, 2021 (NEW DATES)

WHERE: Virtual

Are you interested in this workshop and/or its products? Sign up for updates and stay tuned on the workshop website.

2022 OCB Activity Solicitation due Oct 22

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 

2022 OCB Activity Solicitation

The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2022 calendar year. Due to ongoing COVID-related uncertainties, in-person activities should include contingency plans in case delays or cancellations are necessary. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities as follows:

  • Scoping workshops (~50-70 people) that bring together an appropriate body of expertise to foster discussions and build momentum within a specific OCB research area (previous OCB scoping workshops)
  • Working groups (~8-12 members) to address targeted science goals/questions and develop products that benefit and engage the broader OCB community
  • Synthesis activities to bring together existing data sets, model outputs, etc. to support and inform future research efforts
  • Intercomparison activities to assess and build consensus on best practices (methodological, modeling, data analysis, etc.) for advancing OCB-relevant research
  • Training activities (~30-50 participants plus instructors as needed) to build capacity in different areas of OCB research

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