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OCB Workshop Reports

2024

Capotondi, A., Coles, V. J., Clayton, S., Friedrichs, M., Gierach, M., Miller, A. J., and Stock, C. 2024. Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting Along North American Coastlines Workshop Report. M. Maheigan, H. Benway, M. Patterson, A. Johnson (Eds). 54pp. doi: 10.1575/1912/70991; https://hdl.handle.net/1912/70991

Carter, B. R., J. D. Sharp, M. I. García-Ibáñez, R. J. Woosley, M. B. Fong, M. Álvarez, L. Barbero, S. L. Clegg, R. Easley, A. J. Fassbender, X. Li, K. M. Schockman, Z. A. Wang (2024). Random and systematic uncertainty in ship-based seawater carbonate chemistry observations. Limnolog. Oceanogr. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12674

Millette, N. C. et al. (2024). Recommendations for advancing mixoplankton research through empirical-model integration. Front. Mar. Sci., 05 June 2024, Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology, Volume 11 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1392673.

Ombres, E., H. Benway, K. Bisson, A. Larkin, L. Perotti, L. Wright-Fairbanks (eds.) (2024). Connecting Observations to Models: Biogeochemical Observing and Modeling Workshop, 2024 Summary Report and Suggested Steps Forward. Published Date: 2024 Series: NOAA technical memorandum OAR-OAP ; 6, DOI : https://doi.org/10.25923/wpdj-ja69

Palevsky, H. I. et al. (2024). A model for community-driven development of best practices: the Ocean Observatories Initiative Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices and User Guide. Front. Mar. Sci., 03 April 2024 Sec. Ocean Observation Volume 11 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1358591.

Saito, M. A., Saunders, J. K., McIlvin, M. R., Bertrand, E. M., Breier, J. A., Brisbin, M. M., Colston, S. M., Compton, J. R., Griffin, T. J., Hervey, W. J., Hettich, R. L., Jagtap, P. D., Janech, M., Johnson, R., Keil, R., Kleikamp, H., Leary, D., Martens, L., McCain, J. S. P., Moore, E., Mehta, S., Moran, D. M., Neibauer, J., Neely, B. A., Jakuba, M. V., Johnson, J., Duffy, M., Herndl, G. J., Giannone, R., Mueller, R., Nunn, B. L., Pabst, M., Peters, S., Rajczewski, A., Rowland, E., Searle, B., Van Den Bossche, T., Vora, G. J., Waldbauer, J. R., Zheng, H., and Zhao, Z. Results from a Multi-Laboratory Ocean Metaproteomic Intercomparison: Effects of LC-MS Acquisition and Data Analysis Procedures. Biogeosciences, 21, 4889–4908, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-4889-2024, 2024.

2023

Carter, B.R., Sharp, J.D., Dickson, A.G., Álvarez, M., Fong, M.B., García-Ibáñez, M.I., Woosley, R.J., Takeshita, Y., Barbero, L., Byrne, R.H., Cai, W.-J., Chierici, M., Clegg, S.L., Easley, R.A., Fassbender, A.J., Fleger, K.L., Li, X., Martín-Mayor, M., Schockman, K.M. and Wang, Z.A. (2023), Uncertainty sources for measurable ocean carbonate chemistry variables. Limnol Oceanogr. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12477.   Wiley top cited article in 2023!

Millette, N. C. et al. (2023). Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities. Journal of Plankton Research, fbad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad020

Palevsky, H.I., Clayton, S., Atamanchuk, D., Battisti, R., Batryn, J., Bourbonnais, A., et al (2023) OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data: Best Practices & User Guide, Version 1.1.1. Ocean Observatories Initiative, Biogeochemical Sensor Data Working Group, 135pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1865.2

Palter, J. B., J. Cross, M. C. Long, P. A. Rafter, and C. E. Reimers (2023), The science we need to assess marine carbon dioxide removal, Eos, 104, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EO230214. Published on 1 June 2023.

Riser, S., A. Fassbender, K. Johnson, J. Sarmiento, L. Talley, S. Wijffels, R. Hotinski, A. Gray, Y. Takeshita, D. Nicholson, S. Purkey, T. Martz, G. I. Matsumoto, H. Cullen, 2023: Building a Community of Biogeochemistry Float Data Users: an OCB and US CLIVAR Report, 16 pp., DOI: 10.1575/1912/65885.

Twining, Benjamin S., Saito, Mak A., Santoro, Alyson E., Marchetti, Adrian, Levine, Naomi M., "US National BioGeoSCAPES Workshop Report", 2023-01-09, DOI:10.1575/1912/29604, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/29604

2022

Berube, P., S. Gifford, B. Hurwitz, B. Jenkins, A. Marchetti, A. E. Santoro. 2022. Roadmap Towards Community-wide Intercalibration and Standardization of Ocean Nucleic Acids ‘Omics Measurements. 50pp. DOI 10.1575/1912/28054  https://hdl.handle.net/1912/28054

2021

Neeley, A., Beaulieu, S., Proctor, C., Cetinić, I., Futrelle, J., Soto Ramos, I., Sosik, H., Devred, E., Karp-Boss, L., Picheral, M., Poulton, N., Roesler, C., and Shepherd, A.. 2021: Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images. 38pp. DOI: 10.1575/1912/27377.

Saba, G.K., Burd, A.B., Dunne, J.P., Hernández-León, S., Martin, A.H., Rose, K.A., Salisbury, J., Steinberg, D.K., Trueman, C.N., Wilson, R.W., Wilson, S.E. (2021). Towards a better understanding of fish contribution to carbon export flux. Limnology and Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11709.

2020

Benway, H., J. Buck, L. Fujieki, D. Kinkade, L. Lorenzoni, M. Schildhauer, A. Shepherd, A. White (2020). NSF EarthCube Workshop for Shipboard Ocean Time Series Data Meeting Report. 59 pp. DOI 10.1575/1912/25480, https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/25480

White, A.E., Granger, J., Selden, C., Gradoville, M.R., Potts, L., Bourbonnais, A., Fulweiler, R.W., Knapp, A.N., Mohr, W., Moisander, P.H., Tobias, C.R., Caffin, M., Wilson, S.T., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Mulholland, M.R. and Chang, B.X. (2020), A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems. Limnol Oceanogr Methods. doi:10.1002/lom3.10353

Wilson, S. T., Al-Haj, A. N., Bourbonnais, A., Frey, C., Fulweiler, R. W., Kessler, J. D., Marchant, H. K., Milucka, J., Ray, N. E., Suntharalingam, P., Thornton, B. F., Upstill-Goddard, R. C., Weber, T. S., Arévalo-Martínez, D. L., Bange, H. W., Benway, H. M., Bianchi, D., Borges, A. V., Chang, B. X., Crill, P. M., del Valle, D. A., Farías, L., Joye, S. B., Kock, A., Labidi, J., Manning, C. C., Pohlman, J. W., Rehder, G., Sparrow, K. J., Tortell, P. D., Treude, T., Valentine, D. L., Ward, B. B., Yang, S., and Yurganov, L. N. (2020). Ideas and perspectives: A strategic assessment of methane and nitrous oxide measurements in the marine environment, Biogeosciences, 17, 5809–5828, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5809-2020.

2019

Di Lorenzo, E., A. Miller, C. Anderson, K. Karnauskas, J. Keister, N. Mantua, M. Ohman, and A. Subramanian (2019). Forecasting ENSO Impacts on Marine Ecosystems of the US West Coast: A Joint US CLIVAR and OCB Workshop Report, 2019-1, 58pp., doi:10.5065/15kw-ep41.

Dunne, John P., Romanou, Anastasia, McKinley, Galen A., Long, Matthew, Doney, Scott C. (2019), Synthesis and Intercomparison of Ocean Carbon Uptake in CMIP6 Models workshop report, December 8-9, 2018 Washington, DC", 2019-04, doi:10.1575/1912/24038, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/24038

2018

Fassbender, A. J., J. B. Palter, M. C. Long, T. Ito, S. P. Bishop, and M. F. Cronin (2018). Ocean Carbon Hot Spots. A Joint US CLIVAR and OCB Workshop Report, 2018-3, 34pp., doi:10.5065/D6Z036ZS.

Hood, R. R., Beal, L. M., Benway, H. M., Chandler, C. L., Coles, V. J., Cutter, G. A., Dick, H. J. B., Gangopadhyay, A., Goes, J. I., Humphris, S. E., Landry, M. R., Lloyd, K. G., McPhaden, M. J., Murtugudde, R., Subrahmanyam, B., Susanto, R. D., Talley, L. D., Wiggert, J. D., Zhang, C. (2018), United States contributions to the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (US IIOE-2), 2018-08-02, DOI:10.1575/1912/10510, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10510, 65 pp.

2017

Lorenzoni, L., M. Telszewski, H. Benway, A. P. Palacz (Eds.) (2017). A user’s guide for selected autonomous biogeochemical sensors. An outcome from the 1st IOCCP International Sensors Summer Course. IOCCP Report No. 2/2017, 83 pp.

2016

Barton, A.D., S. Dutkiewicz, K.H. Andersen, Ø. Fiksen, M. Follows, C. Mouw, N. Record, and T. Rynearson (2016). Report on the “Trait-based approaches to ocean life” scoping workshop, October 5-8, 2015, U.S. Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, 35 pp., DOI: 10.1575/1912/8017.

 

2015

Russell, J., H. Benway, A. Bracco, C. Deutsch, T. Ito, I. Kamenkovich, and M. Patterson (2015): Ocean’s Carbon and Heat Uptake: Uncertainties and Metrics. US CLIVAR Report 2015-3, 33 pp.

 

2014

Benway, H. M., E. Hofmann, M. St. John (2014). Building international research partnerships in the North Atlantic-Arctic System: An international planning workshop for a North Atlantic-Arctic science program. Eos Trans. AGU 95(35),317, DOI: 10.1002/2014EO350007.

Benway, H. M., Coble, P. G. (Editors) (2014). Report of The U.S. Gulf of Mexico Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, March 27-28, 2013, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 67 pp. (workshop website).

 

2013

Benway, H. M., M. Telszewski, and L. Lorenzoni (2013), Improving Intercomparability of Marine Biogeochemical Time Series, Eos Trans. AGU 94(17), 160.

Church, M. J., M. W. Lomas, F. Muller-Karger (2013). Sea change: Charting the course for biogeochemical ocean time-series research in a new millennium. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 93, 2-15 (Report from OCB Scoping Workshop on biogeochemical ocean time-series).

Lorenzoni, L., Benway, H. M. (Editors), 2013. Report of Global intercomparability in a changing ocean: An international time-series methods workshop, November 28-30, 2012, Ocean Carbon
and Biogeochem istry (OCB) Program and International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), 61 pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-12.

Najjar, R.G., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Cai, W.-J. (Editors) (2012) Report of The U.S. East Coast Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, January 19-20, 2012, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 34 pp.

 

2011

Benway, H. M. (2011). Quantifying the coastal contribution to the North American carbon budget: A Coastal Interim Synthesis Workshop, San Francisco, California, 11-12 December 2010. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 92 (23).

Cooley, S. R. (2011). OCB Ocean Acidification Principal Investigators' Meeting. Meeting report.

Honjo, S., Eglinton, T., and members of the GBF-OOI Scientific Steering Committee (2011). Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Scoping Workshop on a Biogeochemical Flux Program Aligned with the Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Moffett, J. et al. (2011) The Molecular Biology of Biogeochemistry: Using Molecular Methods to Link Ocean Chemistry with Biological Activity, Report of the OCB Scoping Workshop held November 8-10, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA, 28 pp.

 

2010

Benway, H. M., S. R. Cooley, S. C. Doney (2010). A catalyst for ocean acidification research and collaboration: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Short Course on Ocean Acidification; Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 2–13 November 2009. Eos Trans. AGU 91 (12).

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2010). Ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling in a changing ocean: Fifth annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) summer science workshop. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 91 (44).

Hofmann, E., Sarmiento, J., Smith, W. (2010). A U.S. Southern Ocean Carbon, Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry Science Plan, a report of the Southern Ocean Scoping Workshop sponsored by the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and the NSF Office of Polar Programs (Workshop Steering Committee Members: C. Deutsch, E. Hofmann, T. Ito, N. Lovenduski, J. Russell, J. Sarmiento, W. Smith, P. Strutton)

 

2009

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2009). Multidisciplinary perspectives in marine biogeochemistry and ecology: Fourth annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer science workshop. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 90 (45).

Fabry, V. J., C. Langdon, W. M. Balch, A. G. Dickson, R. A. Feely, B. Hales, D. A. Hutchins, J. A. Kleypas, and C. L. Sabine (2009): Present and future impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, Report of the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Scoping Workshop on Ocean Acidification Research (UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; 9–11 October 2007)

Johnson, K. S. et al. (2009). Observing biogeochemical cycles at global scales with profiling floats and gliders: prospects for a global array. Report of the OCB Scoping Workshop “Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders” held April 28-30, 2009 in Moss Landing, CA, Oceanography 22(3), pp. 216-225.

 

2008

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2008). Ocean carbon cycling and climate impacts on marine ecosystems: Third annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer science workshop. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 89 (47).

Fabry, V. J., C. Langdon, W. M. Balch, A. G. Dickson, R. A. Feely, B. Hales, D. A. Hutchins, J. A. Kleypas, and C. L. Sabine (2008). Ocean acidification’s effects on marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry scoping workshop on ocean acidification research. Eos 89(15): 143.

 

2007

Benway, H. M. and S. C. Doney (2007). Advancing the integration of marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemistry: Second annual Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer workshop. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 88 (47).

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