February 17-19, 2018 Crowne Plaza Convention Center, Portland, OR The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is working with a scientific organizing committee to plan the 4th U.S. Ocean Acidification Principal Investigators meeting in conjunction with the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, where there will be numerous relevant sessions on changing ocean chemistry and ecosystem response. We hope to use […]
Read MoreOCB is currently seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members, including a new early career SSC member. To qualify for the early career slot, a nominee must have completed a PhD within the last 4 years; both postdoctoral researchers and faculty members are eligible. For the early career nominees who are currently postdocs, a […]
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The Ocean Carbon Hot Spots Workshop took place September 25-26, 2017. Visit the workshop website, and online poster gallery for more information. This workshop, which is co-sponsored by OCB, US CLIVAR, MBARI, and Ocean Mixing Processes (OMIX), aimed to develop an interdisciplinary research community that will facilitate a better understanding of carbon uptake and storage […]
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To harness growing interest among US scientists in Indian Ocean research, the US IIOE-2 Steering Committee held an Indian Ocean community workshop September 11-13, 2017 in La Jolla, CA. Please see the workshop archive with agenda, recordings, presentations slides and an online poster gallery. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the International Indian Ocean Expedition and the […]
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OCB-sponsored participants of Univ. Maine Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing summer course May 2017. Course resources, including lecture videos, are available online. Lionel Arteaga is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Jorge Samiento’s group at Princeton University. He initially studied Biology at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, where he analyzed the upwelling systems […]
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Time-series scientists and members of the OCB Ocean Time-series Committee have just published a feature article in Eos: Neuer, S., H. Benway, N. Bates, C. Carlson, M. Church, M. DeGrandpre, J. Dunne, R. Letelier, M. Lomas, L. Lorenzoni, F. Muller-Karger, M. J. Perry, P. Quay (2017). Monitoring ocean change in the 21st Century. Eos 98, […]
Read MoreThe annual Austral Summer Institute (ASI) organized by the Department of Oceanography and the COPAS Sur-Austral Program of the University of Concepcion, Chile, provides training for a topic that is timely and of wide interest in the marine science community. ASI XVIII is organized around four courses, each one week long, that address different aspects of the general theme. […]
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The International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS) has released its report entitled “What are Marine Ecological Time Series telling us about the ocean? A status report.” Download the full report PDF or individual sections. This first report presents an analysis and overview of oceanic trends through the end of 2012, based on a collection of […]
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IMBeR IMBIZO 5: Marine biosphere research for a sustainable ocean: Linking ecosystems, future states and resource management will take place October 2-5, 2017 (Woods Hole, MA). Imbizo is a Zulu word for “gathering.” This international meeting, which occurs every two years, consists of three concurrent workshops on timely topics, as well as activities that cut […]
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) solicited proposals addressing the research needed to begin Phase I of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) field campaign – a large-scale field campaign that will provide critical information for quantifying the export and fate of upper ocean net primary production (NPP) from satellite observations. The overarching goal of EXPORTS […]
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2017 Fall AGU Meeting View OCB-relevant sessions at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting December 11-15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting View OCB-relevant sessions for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting February 11-16, 2018 in Portland, OR (abstract submission deadline: September 6, 2017). If you would like to add sessions to these lists, please send us an email.
Read MoreWe are currently seeking Review Editors for the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2). The deadline for nominations is July 30. Please share this widely among your networks. Please see the instructions and a note with additional details from Dr. Nancy Cavallaro (USDA NIFA National Program Leader and CCIWG co-Chair) below. Thank you. […]
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Save the date: The 2018 OCB Summer Workshop will be held June 25-28, 2018 in Woods Hole, MA (#OCB2018). All slides and webcast footage from the 2017 OCB Summer Workshop now available here. If you attended OCB 2017 and would like to have your poster archived in online poster gallery, please submit a PDF of your poster to the OCB Project Office. […]
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Ocean Optics 2017 training course entitled “Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing“
The Ocean Optics 2017 training course entitled “Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing“ is starting this week at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (10 July – 4 August 2017). As the course progresses, the powerpoint presentations from all the lectures plus the recordings and the lab’s printed materials will be posted […]
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PBS series “Changing Seas” joined a BATS cruise during January 2017 to film an episode that introduces the biological and solubility pumps (featuring BIOS’s Nick Bates, Rod Johnson and Amy Mass, and Dennis Hansell). Watch on YouTube
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