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 web-broadcasted to engage broader participation, and we field questions from webcast participants via an email address that is closely monitored throughout the workshop. The Project Office posts speakers’ talks and webcast footage on the workshop website as soon as possible during and after the meeting.
OCB Summer Science Workshop Website
UPCOMING: 2023 OCB Summer Workshop
June 12-15, 2023 (Woods Hole, MA)
OCB2023 Plenary Sessions
- 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
Past Summer Workshops - archived recordings and content by year below
OCB2022
2022 Plenary Sessions Descriptions
Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes Co-chairs: Galen McKinley (Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory), Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Tim DeVries (UCSB)
Tidal Carbon Exports from Coastal Wetlands as a Significant Component of Blue Carbon Sequestration Co-chairs: Aleck Wang (WHOI), Jaime Palter (URI), Maria Tzortziou (CUNY/CCNY) Xinping Hu (TAMUCC), Jeff Bowman (SIO)
Extreme Ocean Events Co-chairs: Patrick Rafter (UCI), Victoria Coles (VIMS), Randie Bundy (UW)
Coastal Observing Systems to Understand and Predict Ecosystem Changes Co-chairs: Charlie Stock (NOAA GFDL), Dreux Chappell (ODU), Jeff Bowman (SIO), Susanne Craig (NASA GSFC)
Our Evolving Understanding of Biologically Mediated Carbon Export Co-chairs: Susanne Menden-Deuer (URI), Emily Osborne (NOAA AOML), Seth Bushinsky (UH)
OCB2021
2021 Virtual OCB Summer Workshop (#OCB2021) Plenary sessions:
- Bridging the divide between ocean biology and geochemistry (Chairs: Dreux Chappell, Patrick Rafter, Adam Martiny)
- Optical biogeochemistry: Above and below the waterline (Chairs: Amy Maas, Maria Tzortziou, Seth Bushinsky)
- Ocean-based negative emissions technologies (Chairs: Lennart Bach, Jaime Palter, Patrick Rafter, Clare Reimers)
- Ocean Worlds (Chairs: Laura Lorenzoni, Chris German, Alison Murray, Ashley Kleinman, Paula Bontempi, Adam Martiny)
- Opportunities and challenges in ecological forecasting (Chairs: Victoria Coles, Charlie Stock, Marjy Friedrichs, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Raleigh Hood)
Workshop Content by Day
OCB2021 Early career resources
OCB2019
2019 OCB Summer Workshop (#OCB2019) Plenary sessions:
- Anthropogenic changes in ocean oxygen: Coastal and open ocean perspectives (Chairs: Julie Granger, Adam Martiny, Alyson Santoro, and Ben Twining)
- Approaches and challenges to understanding biogeochemical cycling across the land-ocean aquatic continuum (Chairs: Marjy Friedrichs, Eileen Hofmann, Raleigh Hood and Maria Tzortziou)
- Calcification and the carbon cycle (Chairs: Andrea Fassbender and Jessica Cross)
- Carbon cycle feedbacks from the seafloor (Chair: Clare Reimers)
- The effect of size on ocean processes (allometry) and implications for export (Chair: Amy Maas)
OCB2018
2018 OCB Summer Workshop (#OCB2018) Plenary sessions:
- Phytoplankton physiological engines of biogeochemical models (Chairs: Andrew Barton, SIO; Philip Boyd, UTas; Scott Doney, UVA; Charles Stock, NOAA) Youtube Plenary Session 1 talks
- Polar perspectives on ocean change (Chairs: Laurie Juranek, OSU; Matt Long, NCAR) Youtube Plenary Session 2 talks
- The world of microzooplankton: Ocean carbon movers and shakers (Chairs: Ben Twining, Bigelow Laboratory; Steve Archer, Bigelow Laboratory) Youtube Plenary Session 3 talks
- It's about time - Insights from long-term marine ecological monitoring programs (Chairs: Angel White, OSU, Maria Kavanaugh, OSU) Youtube Plenary Session 4 talks
- Evolutionary insights on marine organisms' response to climate change and links to biogeochemistry (Chairs: Bethany Jenkins, URI; Tatiana Rynearson, URI) Youtube Plenary Session 5 talks
OCB2017
2017 OCB Summer Workshop and 2017 Online Poster Gallery
- Ecological and biogeochemical impacts of natural climate perturbations (organizer: Andrew Barton)
- Stoichiometry and higher trophic levels (organizers: Debbie Steinberg and Mike Roman)
- Our autonomous future (organizers: David Siegel and Jessica Cross)
- Mesoscale and submesoscale physical-biological-biogeochemical interactions (organizers: Dennis McGillicuddy and Andrea Fassbender)
- Carbon fluxes in coastal wetlands (organizers: Chris Osburn, Z. Aleck Wang, Maria Tzortziou, Kevin Kroeger)
OCB2016
2016 OCB Summer Workshop (Report)
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
OCB2010
- The Arctic
- Low oxygen regions
- Benthic-pelagic coupling
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
OCB2008
- Climate sensitivity of the ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles
- Carbon uptake and storage
- Temporal trends in ecosystem variability
OCB2007
- The interplay between biotic structure and biogeochemical cycles
- Changing ocean biogeochemistry: The prediction challenge
- Cross-boundary fluxes in the coastal ocean
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
