Save the Date: OCB2025 Summer Science Workshop Tuesday June 3 to Friday June 6, 2025 at NASA AMES Center (Moffett Field/Mountain View, CA)
OCB2025 Plenary Topics
- Constraining the dark ocean carbon cycle (Co-chairs: Anne Dekas, Anela Choy, Jeff Bowman, Randie Bundy)
- Land-ocean connectivity (joint with North American Carbon Program) (Co-chairs: Jessica Luo, Fei Da, Kanchan Maiti, Shaily Rahman, Libby Larson, David Butman)
- Rapidly changing systems (Co-chairs: Kristen Krumhardt, Rachel Stanley, Melissa Melendez)
- Bridging scales in the ocean carbon cycle (Co-chairs: Zachary Erickson, Tim DeVries, Roo Nicholson, Daniel Whitt, Dreux Chappell)
The OCB Project Office advertises, supports, and coordinates the annual OCB summer science workshop. The dates, theme(s), and thematic session chairs are chosen by the OCB-SSC with input from the broader OCB community. In addition to plenary sessions on timely state-of-the-art science, the OCB summer workshop provides a forum for community discussion of new research directions and opportunities. This meeting is always live-streamed to engage broader participation, and we field questions from virtual participants. The Project Office posts workshop recordings via the OCB YouTube Channel as soon as possible after the workshop.
| Workshop Year | Plenary topics | Recording on YouTube | Other digital resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCB2024 | Submarine groundwater discharge Coupled biogeochemical cycles – interconnected controls on ocean fertility Air-sea interactions Marine viruses Fast processes in the surface ocean – the power of geostationary satellites | 2024 Recordings | 2024 Plenary sessions |
| OCB2023 | Marginal sea biogeochemical cycling in the Anthropocene Role of deltaic sediments in regulating biogeochemical cycles Marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience Sustained observations of global ocean biology Quantifying mCDR efficacy and uncertainty | 2023 Recordings | 2023 Agenda 2023 Plenary Sessions Marine Chemical Speciation (MarChemSpec) models – Hands-On Hybrid Tutorial |
| OCB2022 | Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes Tidal Carbon Exports from Coastal Wetlands as a Significant Component of Blue Carbon Sequestration Extreme Ocean Events Coastal Observing Systems to Understand and Predict Ecosystem Changes Our Evolving Understanding of Biologically Mediated Carbon Export | 2022 Recordings | 2022 Agenda 2022 Plenary Sessions |
| OCB2021 (virtual) | Bridging the divide between ocean biology and geochemistry Optical biogeochemistry: Above and below the waterline Ocean-based negative emissions technologies Ocean Worlds Opportunities and challenges in ecological forecasting | 2021 Recordings | OCB2021 archive |
| OCB2020 | Cancelled due to Covid pandemic | ||
| OCB2019 | Anthropogenic changes in ocean oxygen: Coastal and open ocean perspectives Approaches and challenges to understanding biogeochemical cycling across the land-ocean aquatic continuum Calcification and the carbon cycle Carbon cycle feedbacks from the seafloor The effect of size on ocean processes (allometry) and implications for export | 2019 Recordings | OCB2019 archive page |
| OCB2018 | Phytoplankton physiological engines of biogeochemical models Polar perspectives on ocean change The world of microzooplankton: Ocean carbon movers and shakers It's about time - Insights from long-term marine ecological monitoring programs Evolutionary insights on marine organisms' response to climate change and links to biogeochemistry | 2018 Recordings | OCB2018 archive page |
| OCB2017 | Ecological and biogeochemical impacts of natural climate perturbations Stoichiometry and higher trophic levels Our autonomous future Mesoscale and submesoscale physical-biological-biogeochemical interactions Carbon fluxes in coastal wetlands | 2017 Recordings | OCB2017 archive page |
| OCB2016 | EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) The biology of carbon export: New processes and approaches Recent advances in quantifying ocean carbon uptake Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM): A prototype for a global Biogeochemical-Argo array The Indian Ocean: Monsoon-driven biogeochemical processes Marine ecosystem thresholds and regime shifts ARCTIC-COLORS workshop | 2016 Recordings | OCB2016 archive page Report |
| OCB2015 | Atmospheric nutrient deposition: Impacts on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles Studying spatial and temporal variability in the ocean with shipboard and autonomous platforms Evolving views on physical, ecological and biogeochemical underpinnings of plankton blooms Internal cycling on trace elements: A Budding GEOTRACES/OCB collaboration Ocean biology and biogeochemistry pre-decadal survey meeting | OCB2015 archive page | |
| OCB2014 | The coupled North Atlantic-Arctic system: Processes and dynamics The biological pump: Transport mechanisms and mesopelagic processes Advances in our understanding of the role of sea ice in the glacial carbon cycle The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Opportunities for the OCB community | OCB2014 archive page | |
| OCB2013 | Narrowing in on key biological carbon fluxes: Estimates, approaches, and uncertanties Evolutionary responses of plankton to climate change Trace element-biota interactions Southern Ocean processes | OCB2013 archive page | |
| OCB2012 | Multiple stressors in marine ecosystems Ocean biogeochemistry from satellite data Land-ocean transport and linkages with global change Integrating measurements across multiple time and space scales New observations from an Arctic Ocean in rapid transition | OCB2012 archive page | |
| OCB2011 | Trends, thresholds, and tipping points in marine ecosystems Joint OCB and U.S. CLIVAR session Toward the implementation of a global autonomous biogeochemical observing system | OCB2011 archive page | |
| OCB2010 | The Arctic Low oxygen regions Benthic-pelagic coupling | OCB2010 archive page | |
| OCB2009 | The next U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan Observing systems and time-series The future of OCB research in the Southern Ocean Ocean acidification: Frontiers in understanding physiological and ecological responses Implementing research at the intersection of ocean chemistry and biology NACP/OCB coastal interim synthesis activities | OCB2009 archive page | |
| OCB2008 | Climate sensitivity of the ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles Carbon uptake and storage Temporal trends in ecosystem variability | OCB2008 archive page | |
| OCB2007 | The interplay between biotic structure and biogeochemical cycles Changing ocean biogeochemistry: The prediction challenge Cross-boundary fluxes in the coastal ocean | OCB2007 archive page | |
| OCB2006 | Atmosphere-ocean CO2 exchange Southern Ocean gas exchange experiment and other research opportunities Marine ecosystem/biogeochemical dynamics Ocean acidification Ocean carbon dynamics and climate | OCB2009 archive page |
