Meeting List

2023

*OCB-led activity
**OCB co-sponsored activity

September 13-15 and 18-20: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and JETZON are co-hosting a symposium this coming fall: Biodiversity, Ecology, and the Biological Carbon Pump in the Ocean Twilight Zone: A sustainable future in the face of human exploitation and climate change. There will be two main sessions

• Session one will be September 13-15 and will focus on how we determine biomass in the mesopelagic, the architecture of mesopelagic food webs, and understanding diel vertical migration.
• Session two will be September 18-20 and will focus on the biological carbon pump and its magnitude now and in the future.
  Register by June 1.
• If you would like to join virtually, to hear the plenary talks, then please register using the links on the right of the conference webpage. For anyone who can’t watch them live, the intention is to record the talks and add them to the JETZON YouTube channel.

September 21: EuroSea Symposium on Ocean Observing and Forecasting, a high-level event bringing together national and international stakeholders from policy, science, and industry, IOC/UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Registration for the event is currently open and will close on 5 September 2023. For more information on how to register, please visit the website: https://events.geomar.de/event/233/

September 28: 14:00 CEST. First webinar in a series of insightful events exploring how the Horizon Europe OceanICU Project is working towards filling fundamental knowledge gaps about the Ocean Carbon processes, including human activity impacts on the ocean carbon cycle, and how we can develop and provide the right information and tools for industry, policy makers and society to better manage our environment. Please register here: https://ocean-icu.eu/resources/oceanicu-webinar-overview-of-oceanicu/.  OceanICU is a five-year project that seeks to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump and its processes in order to provide fundamental knowledge and tools to help policy makers, regulators and industry, manage and understand the impact of their actions on Ocean Carbon. As one of the partners in OceanICU consortium, IOCCP will work to develop an internationally-agreed strategy for sustainable, operational monitoring of the surface ocean CO₂ (regionally and globally). Building on existing observing programmes, data management structures, and coordination bodies and in partenrship with international and intergovernmental stakeholders we aim to create a global surface ocean CO₂ monitoring network capable of responding to the needs of global and regional policy drivers. For more information about the project, please visit the website: https://ocean-icu.eu/

October 3-5: Observations within the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch, Geneva, Switzerland and remote. abstract submission and registration are already open and will close on 15 August 2023.

October 17-19: SCOR Annual Meeting (Guayaquil, Ecuador/hybrid)

October 23-27: World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference (Rwanda)

October or November Date to be Determined: Ocean Acidification Week will be back in 2023. GOA-ON’s OA Week

November 6-9: Workshop on surface ocean pCO₂ observations, synthesis and data products at Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), InnovOcean Campus, Oostende, Belgium

November 6-9: BioGeoSCAPES International Science Planning Workshop, Woods Hole, Massachusetts - hybrid

November 6-12: GOOD-OARS-CLAP-COPAS International Summer School, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA) & University of Coquimbo, La SerenaChile

November 9-12: International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit 2023, Xiamen, China. The abstract submission's deadline is extended to 20 August 2023. For further details please read the Third Announcement. For more information about the DITTO Summit, please visit the website.

**November 14-17: International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) 2023 (St. Petersburg, FL)

November 16-23: Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 2023 is in Portland, Oregon with the theme of “Resilience and Recovery”

November 19-24:  IMBIZO 7 conference: Transitioning towards sustainable ocean governance by 2030: commitments and challenges, Rabat, Morocco

December 11-15: Fall AGU Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

2024

*January 9-12: FAIR Data Practices for Ship-based Ocean Time Series, BIOS in Bermuda. Registration opens Fall 2023

February 18-23: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana

March 17-22: ICES-PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium, Hobart, Australia

May 27-30: 8th WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and Earth System Prediction (ESP) that will be organized by WMO and hosted by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in Sweden, at the SMHI main office in Norrköping. This upcoming 8th Workshop will focus on assessing the impacts of various observing systems in all Earth system domains on NWP. However, the scope will be extended to also encompass the impact assessment of the various observing systems, to other Earth system applications. We strongly encourage our community to look through the identified science questions relevant to marine biogeochemistry, especially S1.12-16 related to surface-based observing systems, and S2.9 related to space-based observing systems, and consider submitting an abstract. The abstract submission is open until 15 December 2023. The Workshop will be held in a hybrid format (in-person and remote participation will be enabled) and will be conducted in English. Participation in the workshop is free of charge. There is no workshop fee. For more information, please visit the WMO website.

*June 10-13: OCB Summer Workshop, Woods Hole Massachusetts

June 10-15: International Underwater Glider Conference at Reveljen in Gothenburg, Sweden. This will be the 9th EGO meeting, supported by the OceanGliders and the EuroGOOS Glider Task Team. The call for abstracts will open in September 2023. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact louise.biddle@voiceoftheocean.org  or vturpin@ocean-ops.org

July 29 – August 2: 11th International Carbon Dioxide Conference (ICDC11), Manaus, Brazil. Please download the 1st Announcement. If you are interested in attending the conference, please fill out the , form here: https://forms.gle/pXUx4vv8Uatdaz3C9

October 6-11: Ocean Optics XXVI, The Leading International Conference on the Optics of Inland, Coastal and Ocean Waters, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

November 10-14: SOLAS Open Science Conference (Goa, India)