Welcome to OCB

OCB Mission

To establish the evolving role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle, in the face of environmental change, through studies of marine biogeochemical cycles and associated ecosystems

Overarching Scientific Themes

Improve understanding and prediction of:
1) oceanic uptake and release of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases;
2) climate-sensitivities of biogeochemical cycles and interactions with ecosystem structure

Currently Identified Priorities

- Ocean acidification
- Terrestrial/coastal carbon fluxes and exchanges
- Climate sensitivities of and change in ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles
- Mesopelagic ecological and biogeochemical interactions
- Benthic-pelagic feedbacks on biogeochemical cycles
- Ocean carbon uptake and storage
- Expanding low-oxygen conditions in the coastal and open oceans

 

OCB Information Resources

Community News

AUGUST 18: View updated GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Manual

AUGUST 16: Matlab Toolbox to Perform Secondary Quality Control (2nd QC) on Hydrographic Data published at CDIAC

JULY 21: Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World to take place in Monterey, CA in Autumn 2012

JULY 21: NOAA funding opportunity on global carbon cycle announced - proposal deadline is September 10, 2010

JULY 11: View the special issue of Deep Sea Research Part II on Ecological and Biogeochemical Interactions in the Dark Ocean

JUNE 17: Special issue of Science (June 18, 2010) on Changing Oceans now available

JUNE 15: Deepwater Horizon Response Research Opportunity

JUNE 4: Registration deadline for 2010 OCB Summer workshop is JUNE 15!

MAY 19: Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting now available for download

APRIL 22: The U.S. National Research Council's report on ocean acidification, entitled "Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean" released in prepublication form

APRIL 16: The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Ocean Acidification, a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will take place April 22 at 10 am

MARCH 22: EPA Solicits Public Comment on the Effects of Ocean Acidification as it Relates to the 303(d) Program

 

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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OCB HIGHLIGHTS

AUGUST 2010

OCB and NACP announce the first Coastal Interim Synthesis workshop, which will take place December 11-12, 2010, just before the 2010 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA. View workshop announcement.

JULY 2010

OCB holds its annual Summer Workshop in La Jolla, CA - view highlights on the workshop website. Talks and archived video files of the webcast are being posted.

JUNE 2010

OCB Southern Ocean scoping workshop organizers release final comprehensive science plan for Southern Ocean research

MAY 2010

OCB Ocean Acidification Subcommittee and OCB Project Office submit OCB community response to the EPA's Call for Public Comment on 303(d) Program and Ocean Acidification

APRIL 2010

OCB Southern Ocean scoping workshop organizers draft comprehensive science plan for Southern Ocean research: A U.S. Southern Ocean Carbon, Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry Science Plan

MARCH 2010

The OCB Project Office has developed a new informational website on ocean fertilization

FEBRUARY 2010

Sarah Cooley (OCB Project Office), with assistance from EPOCA, has coordinated and compiled a peer-reviewed list of ocean acidification FAQs