OCB Scientific Steering Committee
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Scientific Steering Committee (OCB-SSC) was formed in February 2006. The OCB-SSC was created jointly by NSF, NASA and NOAA to provide critical leadership to the OCB community by helping to identify research priorities and promote, plan, and coordinate collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities in ocean biogeochemistry. SSC members serve a term of three years. Parentheses indicate term end (end of year) for each member.
Kendra Daly (USF) (2013) (Chair) - biological oceanography, zooplankton ecology
Simone Alin (NOAA/PMEL) (2014) - ocean acidification, coastal carbon chemistry
Andreas Andersson (BIOS) (2013) - marine CO2 and carbonate geochemistry, ocean acidification and its effects on marine calcifiers and coral reefs, calcium carbonate mineral dissolution and sediment composition
Carol Arnosti (UNC) (2015) - organic carbon cycling by microbial communities
Barney Balch (Bigelow) (2014) - marine bio-optics, biocalcification, ocean color algorithm development
Thomas Bianchi (TAMU) (2013) - organic geochemistry, biogeochemical dynamics in aquatic food chains, carbon cycling in riverine, estuarine, and coastal ecosystems, biochemical markers of colloidal and particulate organic carbon
Craig Carlson (UCSB) (2015) (Vice-Chair) - marine microbial ecology, bacterioplankton, dissolved organic carbon
Matthew Church (U Hawaii) (2015) - microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, ocean time-series
Scott Doney (WHOI) (ex officio) - marine biogeochemical modeling, ocean acidification
Hugh Ducklow (LDEO) (2015) - microbial food web dynamics, coastal ecosystems, long-term monitoring (Palmer LTER)
Sonya Dyhrman (LDEO) (2014) - phytoplankton physiological ecology, application of molecular approaches to study ocean biogeochemistry
Eileen Hofmann (ODU) (2015) - coupled physical-biological modeling of marine ecosystems
Ricardo Letelier (OSU) (2014) - marine bio-optics, phytoplankton ecology, satellite remote sensing
Lisa Levin (Scripps) (2013) - benthic ecology, oxygen minimum zones
Todd Martz (Scripps) (2015) - biogeochemical sensor development, marine inorganic carbon cycle
Jeremy Mathis (U. Alaska - Fairbanks) (2013) - marine chemistry, biogeochemical processes, ecosystem dynamics, carbon and nitrogen cycling
Tatiana Rynearson (U. Rhode Island) (2013) - marine molecular ecology, evolution
Mak Saito (WHOI) (2013) - trace metal biogeochemistry focusing on bioactive metals and vitamins (Co, Fe, Mn, Cd, Zn, Ni, and B12), marine proteomics and metaproteomics
Jorge Sarmiento (Princeton) (2014) - marine biogeochemical cycling (C, N, O, etc.), ocean circulation tracers, general circulation models to study impacts of climate change on ocean biogeochemistry and biology
David Siegel (UCSB) (2013) - coupling of physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical processes on micro to ocean basin scales
View OCB SSC Charge and Terms of Reference. View history of OCB SSC membership (2006-present).