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OCB is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members. The following SSC members are scheduled to rotate off at the end of 2020: Andrea Fassbender (MBARI) – marine biogeochemical cycling, the ocean’s role in global climate through the carbon cycle Matt Long (NCAR) – biogeochemical and climate modeling Amy Maas (BIOS) – physiology, […]

The NSF- funded Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) deploys sensors that measure key biogeochemical properties (pH, pCO2, bio-optics, nitrate, dissolved oxygen) on both moored and mobile autonomous platforms across arrays in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans. These sensors provide enormous potential to support the oceanographic community in studying a wide range of important interdisciplinary questions. […]

ROSES-2020 Program Element A.5 Carbon Cycle Science solicits proposals for research focused on carbon stocks and fluxes between and within freshwater, marine systems, and land ecosystems, and their exchange with the atmosphere. It also targets improving understanding of carbon cycle processes and feedbacks in critical ecosystems that are particularly vulnerable to environmental change. Substantive use […]

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 […]

Dear 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 […]

A 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 […]

OceanHackWeek 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 […]

The 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.  

SOCATv2020 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 […]

“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 […]

Dennis 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 […]

The 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. […]

Dear 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 […]

This 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 […]