Summer Workshops

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 or after the meeting.

Plenary topics:

• 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)

In addition to plenary sessions, OCB 2021 will include community discussions on OCB-relevant topics, new OCB activity updates, early career mixers, agency program manager updates and networking events, virtual poster sessions, and more! Registration will be free and all are welcome to join! Stay tuned via our eNewsletter, website, and Twitter (@US_OCB)!

Previous Summer Workshops Archive (includes presentation slides and videos)

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)

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

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)

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

2015 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2014 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2013 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2012 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2011 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2010 OCB Summer Workshop

• The Arctic
• Low oxygen regions
• Benthic-pelagic coupling

2009 OCB Summer Workshop

• 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

2008 OCB Summer Workshop

• Climate sensitivity of the ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles
• Carbon uptake and storage
• Temporal trends in ecosystem variability

2007 OCB Summer Workshop

• The interplay between biotic structure and biogeochemical cycles
• Changing ocean biogeochemistry: The prediction challenge
• Cross-boundary fluxes in the coastal ocean

2006 OCB Summer Workshop

• Atmosphere-ocean CO₂ exchange
• Southern Ocean gas exchange experiment and other research opportunities
• Marine ecosystem/biogeochemical dynamics
• Ocean acidification
• Ocean carbon dynamics and climate