The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2021 calendar year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activities that can be conducted remotely (at least for the first half of 2021) are encouraged. Any proposed in-person activities should include contingency plans in case delays or cancellations are […]
Read MoreDear Science and Applications Team, Registration for the first PACE Applications workshop is now open! The 2-day virtual workshop scheduled for September 23 & 24, will showcase future uses of PACE satellite data and products to support decision-making for water resource management, air quality and health monitoring, climate modeling, disasters response and mitigation, and ecological […]
Read MoreA new publication is now available that have came out of discussions at the 2018 OA PI meeting in Portland, OR: Doo, SS, A Kealoha, A Andersson, AL Cohen, TL Hicks, ZI Johnson, MH Long, P McElhany, N Mollica, KEF Shamberger, NJ Silbiger, Y Takeshita, DS Busch (2020). The challenges of detecting and attributing ocean […]
Read MoreOceanHackWeek is a small hands-on, interactive virtual workshop focused on data science and oceanography that will be held during August 10-14, 2020. Join us for five days of tutorials, data exploration, software development and community networking! Please visit our website https://oceanhackweek.github.io/ for details. To apply, see https://oceanhackweek.github.io/applicant-info.html Application deadline: July 13, 2020. We expect to […]
Read MoreThe OCB 2021 Summer Workshop will be held June 14-17, 2021 in Woods Hole, MA. Dive into past workshops here (including recordings of talks) and stay tuned for session, logistics and other details on our workshop website.
Read MoreSOCATv2020 is available now via www.socat.info! SOCAT version 2020 contains 28.2 million in situ surface ocean fCO2 (fugacity of CO2) measurements for the global ocean and coastal seas with an accuracy < 5 μatm, while a further 2.3 million fCO2 values with an accuracy of 5 to 10 μatm are made available separately. The Surface Ocean […]
Read More“The only way we can change the geoscience culture is by a massive shift in individual mindsets, with the aim of moving the field from passively non-racist to actively anti-racist.” – Kuheli Dutt (2019) – Nature Geoscience “Racism, injustice and police brutality are awful on their own, but are additionally pernicious because of the brain power […]
Read MoreDennis Hansell and Craig Carlson are compiling DOM data (DOC/TDN) from the global ocean with the intention of making those available to current and future generations of ocean scientists. Please contribute your data. We are compiling the long line (U.S. GO-SHIP and earlier) DOC/TDN and affiliated hydrographic data into a single collection. Our intention is […]
Read MoreThank you to everyone who participated! The recordings are now on the OCB YouTube channel. The first meeting of the OCB Working Group on Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes convened, May 5-6, 2020 via Webex. The first day of the meeting (May 5) was open to everyone and included presentations […]
Read MoreThe goal of this joint US CLIVAR – US OCB workshop was to develop a strategy for connecting ENSO physical climate forecasts to marine ecosystem forecasts along the US West Coast, in particular the California Current System (CCS). Learn more about the workshop. Di Lorenzo, E., A. Miller, C. Anderson, K. Karnauskas, J. Keister, N. […]
Read MoreDear Ocean Color Science Community, We are reaching out to enlist your help. We are creating a new method to develop satellite-based chlorophyll a algorithms using a machine learning (ML) approach called Genetic Programming. This NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) project, called the NASA Evolutionary Programming Analytic Center (NEPAC), will create a web-based Graphical […]
Read MoreThis summer, we are developing a biweekly virtual seminar series to help OCB community members connect and share great new science! For this series, we are seeking content that is relevant to OCB’s current research priorities. If you are interested in giving an OCB virtual seminar, please fill out this form by May 31. The […]
Read MoreCancellation of OCB 2020 Due to health and safety concerns associated with COVID-19, we regret to inform you that the 2020 OCB workshop in Woods Hole has been cancelled. Rather than attempt a virtual format for the planned OCB 2020 plenary sessions (which we think would compromise session quality and community discussion), the OCB SSC […]
Read MoreThe new combined surface pCO2 climatology sent to OCADS by Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) was archived at OCADS/NCEI: Landschützer, Peter; Goulven Laruelle, Alizee Roobaert, Pierre Regnier (2020). A combined global ocean pCO2 climatology combining open ocean and coastal areas (NCEI Accession 0209633). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. […]
Read MoreCOURSE 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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