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OCB Operational Phytoplankton Observations WG to convene town hall at OSM2024

Posted by hbenway 
· Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 

OSM Town Hall, Friday February 23rd 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 CST

Convention Center, Room: R02-R03, Second Floor

Building a Community of Practice for the Collection and Assessment of Operational Phytoplankton Observations 

The number of particle imaging instruments (PII) for quantifying and identifying phytoplankton in aquatic environments has grown over the last decade. PIIs are poised to revolutionize our understanding of planktonic ecosystems and will allow us to effectively monitor global changes over time. Each PII and sampling method has inherent limitations associated with the detection and imaging of particles, and the environment being sampled. Such standards have been established for optical and biochemical measurements, many of which have been reported in a series of protocol  documents, including the IOCCG Protocols for Satellite Ocean Colour Sensor Validation. The OCB Operational Phytoplankton Observations (OPO) working group was formed to develop a set of best practices for both the collection and downstream processing of phytoplankton images produced by PIIs that will result in consistent, quantitative observations of phytoplankton taxonomy and biomass. 

Our goal for this Town Hall will be to provide a space and framework for discussion around emerging topics related to best practices when using PIIs through interactive breakout groups.

Potential discussion topics:

  • Data and derived products
  • Imaging data management and sharing
  • Operational considerations for imaging instrument deployment
  • Uncertainties in imaging data

RSVP here by Friday February 16th to help us gauge numbers and help us refine the discussion topics.

 

NOAA OAP proposal call – due March 17

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, December 15th, 2023 
The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), in partnership with the Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program is soliciting proposals to optimize sampling strategies that improve carbonate chemistry observing systems co-developed with an observing data product end user that can inform real-time data delivery and forecasting of ocean acidification relevant parameters. The optimization design should be geared towards delivering the data needed to support the end user’s specific decision support needs.
Applicants should submit proposals not to exceed $500,000 per year for projects generally 2-3 years in duration, with a total multi-year budget not to exceed $1,500,000 (Option 1.a.: Up to $350,000 per year for three years; Option 1.b.: Up to $200,000 per year for three years; Option 2: Up to $500,000 per year for three years). Should funds become available for this program, up to approximately $4,000,000 may be available in Fiscal Year 2024 for the first year. We anticipate funding 2-5 projects with expected start dates of September 1, 2024. Funding for this program is contingent upon availability of funds, which have not been appropriated at the time of this announcement.
Full applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on March 17th, 2024.

Watch the informational webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXw9ZspNhP8

OCB at OSM24

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, December 8th, 2023 

OCB will have a booth at the OSM24 exhibitor hall – come see us there during open hours. SSC members and Project Office staff will be at the booth to talk all things OCB and answer your questions about getting more involved.

Stay tuned for OCB-hosted sessions and town halls during OSM.

OCB mCDR Updates

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 

OCB Principles of Engagement on mCDR

Given the broad and thriving mCDR landscape, the OCB SSC recently developed a Principles of Engagement document to help guide new research activities, collaborations, and communications around mCDR. Read the document HERE.

Must Read on mCDR

Carbon dioxide removal is an ineffective time machine

Regional Node Updates

Gulf of Mexico Node Activities
GMx regional node 1st zoom recording
GMx in person node gathering in New Orleans (Feb. 19, 2024) - outcomes TBD

We are currently looking to identify diverse stakeholders in the Southeast who would like to connect with the Southeast regional node – find more information about the node below, and if interested please fill out this interest form and feel free to share widely.

We are currently looking to identify diverse stakeholders in California who would like to connect with the California Current regional node – please fill out this interest form.

Register for the next BECS Webinar

Posted by hbenway 
· Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 

The OCB Benthic Ecosystem & Carbon Synthesis (BECS) are hosting a webinar!

WHEN
November 28, 2023, 10:00-11:00 AM EST

SPEAKERS
Chris Somes (GEOMAR) - The impact of reductive sedimentary iron release on changing ocean biogeochemistry simulations of the Anthropocene

Kanchan Maiti (LSU) - Oxygen and carbon dynamics in Mississippi river influenced shelf sediments

REGISTER

Learn more about the BECS Working Group

Registration is open: Pathways Connecting Climate Changes to the Deep Ocean Workshop

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, October 20th, 2023 

Pathways Connecting Climate Changes to the Deep Ocean: Tracing physical, biogeochemical, and ecological signals from the surface to the deep sea (OCB/US CLIVAR joint workshop)

April 23-25, 2024 (University of Delaware, Virden Center) 

Workshop website

This workshop will bring together observational oceanographers and modelers across physical, biogeochemical, and ecological communities to assess our understanding of pathways connecting the surface to the seafloor and to develop recommendations for improved detection and attribution of change in the global deep ocean system.
Workshop goals:

  1. Provide an updated comprehensive assessment of the deep ocean’s state and changes across disciplines, of key quantities in which these changes are expressed, and of  pathways and timescales connecting the surface to the seafloor.
  2. Review existing observation and modeling tools and their adequacy for constraining, understanding, and attributing changes in the deep ocean system. Identify critical knowledge and observational data gaps and model deficiencies.
  3. Develop a collective set of recommendations for improved detection and attribution of change in the global deep ocean system, with a focus on better serving and supporting deep ocean science across disciplines.
  4. Build an interdisciplinary network of ocean modelers and observers across disciplines. Our aim is to open communication channels and facilitate collaborative exchange of data, knowledge, and tools across communities.

The workshop welcomes the participation of scientists from fields across the ocean observing and modeling communities, spanning physics, biogeochemistry, and ecology. We welcome insights from highly localized to global-scale studies as well as efforts focused on individual disciplines, but we strongly encourage all participants to consider how their work can increase opportunities for other disciplines/communities to have a collective impact.

We also encourage participation from relevant oceanographic networks and observing campaigns (e.g., Deep Argo, BGC Argo, GO-SHIP (Global Ocean Shipboard Hydrographic Investigations Program) and Bio-GO-SHIP, JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network), ECCO and ECCO-Darwin (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean), DOSI (Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative), Challenger-150, PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) to ensure broad disciplinary representation and connectivity to established programs.

Scientific Organizing Committee
Xinfeng Liang (Univ. Delaware), Monique Messié (MBARI), Leslie Smith (Your Ocean Consulting LLC, DOOS), Isabela Le Bras (WHOI), Patrick Heimbach (Univ. Texas, Austin), Helen Pillar (Univ. Texas, Austin), Zachary Erickson (NOAA/PMEL), Charlie Stock (NOAA/GFDL)

International FAIR Data Workshop POSTPONED

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 

International Workshop: FAIR Data Practices for Ship-based Ocean Time Series

DATES POSTPONED

OVERVIEW: Sustained ocean time series measurements are fundamental to distinguish between natural and human-induced variability in ecosystems and processes required to advance ecological forecasting. The last international ship-based ocean time series workshop, held in November 2012 (Bermuda), focused on recommendations to improve data comparability. Over the past decade (see Fig.) the ocean observing community has contributed to numerous efforts and activities in support of building a global network of ocean time series with the aims of:

  • Elevating the visibility and utility of these observing assets for understanding climate-ecosystem links
  • Improving coordination, communication, and scientific synthesis products across ocean time series programs/sites
  • Building consensus on foundational components such as methods and FAIR data practices

This workshop on FAIR Data Practices for Ship-based Ocean Time Series will bring together globally distributed ship-based ocean time series representatives who are interested and committed to FAIR data practices with data managers and experts in semantic web technologies with the following objectives:

  • Share and vet newly drafted biogeochemical and biological use cases for adoption by the broader METS community
  • Work with participating time series representatives to implement these use cases for their time series programs
  • Co-develop best practices for responsible use of ocean time series datasets (as a contribution to the Ocean Best Practices System repository)
  • Share new findings and update recommendations on sampling and analytical protocols from the 2012 Bermuda Time Series Methods Workshop
  • Explore mechanisms (and identify champions!) for engaging broader stakeholders (managers, educators, etc.) in the use of ocean time series data sets
  • Start planning (and identify champions!) for an Ocean HackWeek for ocean time series data

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.

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