Recording: FAIR data solutions to support a global observing system of marine ecological time series
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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We have two programs in C-CoMP (https://ccomp-stc.org/) that the OCB community may be interested in – a postdoc program and a bridge-to-PhD program. Both programs are 2-year fellowships with professional development, mentoring opportunities and rich research experiences across the ocean sciences and education research. The postdoc fellowship asks applicants to identify a host who can […]
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Workshop to discuss scientific research ideas and best practices for using OOI biogeochemical sensor data June 16-18, 2022 at WHOI The NSF-funded OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Working Group was established in summer 2021 to develop guidelines and best practices for using OOI biogeochemical sensor data to broaden users and applications of these data, and build […]
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GO-BGC webinar series Next webinar: June 29, 1pm ET: Understanding ecological dynamics using BGC-Argo data Register for June 29 webinar 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 […]
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The hybrid workshop Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines took place April 12-14, 2022 in Woods Hole, MA and online. Check out the full workshop agenda with linked slidedecks and talk recordings on the workshop website (US CLIVAR website). You can also view the whole playlist of recordings on the OCB YouTube […]
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Ocean Nucleic Acids ‘Omics Workshop Report Released In January 2020, the workshop on Ocean nucleic acids ‘omics intercalibration and standardization was convened by the US Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry (OCB) program. The goal of this workshop was to develop a focused marine microbial nucleic acid (na) ‘omics intercomparison and intercalibration effort to enhance future field programs […]
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WK14 Advancing microfluidics and metabolomics in microbial ecology This half-day workshop is intended for researchers with expertise in microbial ecology, microfluidics and metabolomics, with the aim of interdisciplinary training, idea exchange and to foster collaborations. This event will feature several invited talks from leaders in the respective fields and will highlight recent developments and persistent […]
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What’s behind the curtain of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? The NASA PACE Project and Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office are excited to announce the upcoming summer class “What’s behind the curtain of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission?” This one-week graduate-level course will provide in-depth […]
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Bio-GO-SHIP: Sustained Global Scale Biological Observations Feb. 24, 2:00 pm (Room 4) Attend this Town Hall Meeting to learn more about a new 2-year Bio-GO-SHIP pilot effort supported by NOAA and NASA that will add biological measurements to the existing suite of core GO-SHIP physical and biogeochemical measurements on upcoming GO-SHIP lines. For more details […]
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Please join us in welcoming five new members to the OCB SSC! Susanne Craig (NASA GSFC) Shaily Rahman (Univ Colorado, Boulder) Jeff Bowman (SIO) Tim DeVries (UCSB) Zachary Erickson (early career) (NOAA PMEL) We thank the outgoing members Marjorie Friedrichs (VIMS), Julie Granger (Univ. Connecticut), Raleigh Hood (UMCES), Adam Martiny (Univ. California, Irvine), and Maria Tzortziou […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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