Contacts: David Siegel (UCSB; EXPORTS Science Lead) & Ivona Cetinić (NASA GSFC/USRA; EXPORTS Project Scientist) EXPORTS in a Nutshell Ocean ecosystems constitute a significant fraction of the world’s primary production, fixing CO2 and creating oxygen while playing critical roles in sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere. An improved understanding of the cycling and fate of […]
Read MoreU.S. and India Science Colloquium: Earth Observations and Sciences for Society and Economy 1. NEW MEETING DATES: June 11-12, 2018; Goa, India As you may recall, the Colloquium was planned around a port call scheduled for the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown in Goa, India, between the US GO-SHIP I7N cruise and the RAMA array service cruise in the Indian Ocean. […]
Read MoreThe Alfred Wegner Institute is delighted to announce its 5th year hosting the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE); providing world class education, training and career development programmes in oceanography. The 10 month training programme will take place on the offshore island of Helgoland and the UNESCO reserve Wadden Sea island of Sylt, Germany. […]
Read MoreThe Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (www.us-ocb.org) will support up to five U.S. students or postdocs to participate in this course, including tuition, travel, and housing expenses. If interested, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest (1 page max) to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by 15 March 2018. The statement should describe your interest in the […]
Read MoreWe would like to thank the OCB community for submitting so many high-quality nominations for the OCB Scientific Steering Committee. We also want to thank the nominees for their willingness to serve, and hope that if you were not elected this year, you will remain interested and willing in future SSC elections. The election results […]
Read MorePlanet Microbe is an NSF funded EarthCube Building Block that arose from the EarthCube Oceanography and Geobiology Environmental ‘Omic (ECOGEO) Research Coordination Network. During the first ECOGEO workshop (August 2015), participants identified data discovery, scalability, and access to computational resources as key challenges limiting progress in marine microbial ecology (see ECOGEO Workshop I Report). To […]
Read MoreA webinar on 12/19 included a brief overview followed by a Q&A session led by members of the report’s writing team on the SOCCR-2 background, process, and content. This is a critical opportunity for the carbon cycle research community to inform the policy process! Please watch the webinar recording here. SOCCR-2 is a technical, scientific […]
Read MoreView the new short film highlighting Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry research and the exciting technology scientists are using to understand the oceans of today and tomorrow.
Read MoreThe Climate Science Special Report, Vol. I of the Fourth National Climate Assessment was released on Friday, November 3rd. U.S. Global Change Research Program also released drafts of Vol. II of NCA4 and the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) for public comment and review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and […]
Read MoreOcean Carbon Hot Spots Webinar Tuesday, November 14 at 1:00 pm ET Link to webinar | Add to calendar Building on the recent Ocean Carbon Hot Spots workshop, the next edition of Variations, joint between US CLIVAR and the US Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Program, will examine western boundary current regions of the ocean, which have […]
Read MoreFebruary 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreTo 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 […]
Read MoreOCB-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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