COURSE CANCELLED FOR 2020 The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (www.us-ocb.org) will support tuition, travel, and housing expenses for up to five U.S.-based students or postdocs to participate in the 2020 Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program taking place June 1 – 12, 2020 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
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Just published! A new paper by the members of OCB’s Developing best practices for measurement of oceanic 15N2 fixation rates and relationships to communities working group. 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, […]
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Now available: Meeting report from the September 2019 NSF EarthCube Workshop for Ocean Time Series Data organized by OCB. Click report cover below to download, and learn more about the workshop here. . Read or download the PDF
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The Technology is Here, the Time is Now: Expanding Biological Measurements on GO-SHIP A new report from SCOR WG 154 (P-OBS) The oceanographic community has made great strides over the past couple of decades in developing physical and biogeochemical observing capacity. However, a more holistic understanding of marine ecosystem function and change requires large-scale and […]
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The goal of this working group will be to assess critical uncertainties in existing observation-based products, determine how best to integrate observation-based open-ocean and coastal-ocean CO2 air–sea fluxes, and quantify uncertainties in the natural (pre-industrial) outgassing of CO2. The first meeting of this working group will take place May 5-6, 2020 at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. […]
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Laying the foundation for a potential future BioGeoSCAPES program: Assessing needs and capabilities for studying controls on ocean metabolism through integrated omics and biogeochemistry PIs: Ben Twining, Mak Saito, Alyson Santoro, Adrian Marchetti, Naomi Levine Dates/Venue: October 14-17, 2020 (Woods Hole, MA). Registration to open May 2020 Learn more
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The OCB 2020 Summer Workshop will be held June 22-25 in Woods Hole, MA. Registration will open April 2020. Announcing the OCB2020 plenary topics: BioGeoSCAPES (Chairs: Dreux Chappell, Patrick Rafter, Adam Martiny), *also note BioGeoSCAPES scoping workshop in Oct. 2020 Ocean optics (Chairs: Amy Maas, Maria Tzortziou, Seth Bushinsky) Ocean-based negative emissions technologies (Chairs: Lennart […]
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OCB’s redesigned Ocean Fertilization website is available at https://web.whoi.edu/ocb-fert/. This website is designed for both non-scientists and scientists as an information clearinghouse for research, policy, media, literature and resources related to iron addition to the ocean. Also see The danger of creating a designer planet by Ken Buesseler (WHOI), The Economist blog post
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We would like to thank the OCB community for submitting so many high-quality nominations for the OCB Scientific Steering Committee. Our new SSC members are Charlie Stock (NOAA/GFDL) – interactions between climate and marine ecosystems using global early system models Dreux Chappell (ODU) – molecular microbial ecology, phytoplankton cultivation/physiology, and trace metal biogeochemistry Jaime Palter […]
Read MoreA new NSF supplemental funding opportunity (INTERN) allows students to test out non-academic career paths while in graduate school. PIs can request up to six months of additional support for current graduate students supported on active NSF grants. These supplemental awards allow students to pursue internships that will broaden their professional experience and enable them […]
Read MoreSalinity-based equilibrium constants are widely used to estimate trace element speciation and solve the marine carbonate system. However, this approach is necessarily limited to solutions with seawater stoichiometry. As part of SCOR Working Group 145 and a collaborative NERC/NSF-funded project, we have been developing models that use thermodynamic equilibrium constants, together with activity coefficients, taking […]
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Human actions are driving changes in Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and land surface at unprecedented rates. Fully-coupled Earth system models (ESMs) simulate physical aspects of the climate system, their interactions with terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles. In this sense, ESMs are extremely valuable to understanding and managing planetary-scale human-environment interactions. Over the past few […]
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Final versions of two new IOCCG Ocean Optics and Biogeochemistry Protocols are now available on the IOCCG website: Volume 3.0: “Protocols for Satellite Ocean Color Data Validation: In situ Optical Radiometry”. This document provides protocols for the collection, processing and quality assurance of in situ measurements of the apparent optical properties of natural water for the validation of […]
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New report available Review of US GO-SHIP (Global Ocean Shipboard Hydrographic Investigations Program) An OCB and US CLIVAR Report (November 2019) In 2018 an external review committee convened to assess US GO-SHIP, an affiliate of international GO-SHIP, which performs global ship-based decadal surveys to collect, document, and store high precision and full depth hydrographic […]
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Consider nominating yourself or others to this Consensus Study sponsored by NASEM. Note the very fast turnaround for nominations (November 26). The National Academies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Systems invites your nominations for qualified individuals to serve on a new consensus study, Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions. For […]
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