The 2006 OCB Summer Workshop was held July 10-13, 2006 in Woods Hole, MA.

1. Workshop Agenda
2. Participant Information
3. Workshop Report

1. Workshop Agenda

Monday, July 10, 2006

9:00 Welcome by Scott Doney
9:00-9:45 Agency updates

Atmosphere-Ocean CO₂ exchange
Chair: Richard Feely

9:45  Taro Takahashi: Improved estimates for the climatological mean distribution of sea-air pCO2 difference and the net CO₂ flux over the global oceans
10:45  Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher: Atmospheric and oceanic inverse modeling: What are the atmospheric and oceanic data telling us about air-sea CO₂ fluxes?
11:30  Richard Feely: Interannual variability of the air-sea exchange of CO₂: What we have learned so far from observations
12:15  Lunch and Posters
1:15  Scott Doney: Simulating interannual variability in global air-sea CO₂ fluxes
2:00  Discussion on Air-Sea CO₂ Flux session
2:30  Steve Emerson: Ocean biological productivity rates determined from in situ, remote oxygen measurements

Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment and other Research Opportunities
Chair: David Glover

3:30  Short presentations followed by plenary discussion

• David Ho (GasEx-III)
• Tom Trull (ACE/CSIRO carbon research)
• Colm Sweeney (Bomb 14C) followed by plenary discussion

5:00  Reception

 

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Marine Ecosystem/Biogeochemical Dynamics
Chair: Kathy Barbeau

9:00  John Marra: Beyond assimilation numbers
9:45  Ken Buesseler: Carbon dynamics of the mesopelagic zone – results from VERTIGO
10:45  Mark Altabet: Climate change and the oceanic nitrogen cycle; forcings and possible feedbacks
11:30  Stephanie Dutkiewicz: Natural selection in a model ocean and a new approach to representing ocean ecosystems in biogeochemical models
12:15 Lunch and Posters
1:15  Jim Moffett: Is the Arabian Sea Fe limited?
2:00  Jim Bishop: Ensembles of observations: Biomass – flux coupling in the Southern Ocean
3:00  Gabrielle Rocap: The biological pump in the age of genomics

Ocean Acidification
Chair: Richard Feely
3:45-5:30  Short presentations followed by plenary discussion:

• Joan Kleypas
• Mark Eakin
• Vicki Fabry

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Marine Ecosystem/Biogeochemical Dynamics
Chair: Kathy Barbeau

9:00  Julie Morris, NSF
9:45  Mike Behrenfeld: Basin-scale expressions of nutrient stress in phytoplankton and implications toward carbon modeling
10:45  Aditee Mitra: How not to model the flow of carbon through planktonic predator-prey systems
11:30  Discussion on Marine Eco/BGC session
12:00  Lunch and Posters
1:00  Other research opportunities

• ORION (Mary-Elena Carr/Wade McGillis)
• EU CARBOOCEAN (Helmuth Thomas)
• HOT (Ricardo Letelier)

Ocean Carbon Dynamics and Climate
Chair: Jorge Sarmiento

2:00  Joellen Russell: The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in a warming world: propping open the door to the deep ocean
3:00  Naomi Levine: Detection and attribution of anthropogenic CO2 uptake on decadal time-scales
3:45  Keith Rodgers: Detection and Attribution of anthropogenic change in oceanic DIC: a test case for the North Pacific
4:30  Dierdre Toole: Open-ocean organic sulfur cycling: Light, DMS, and the climate feedback loop
5:15  Group Dinner on the Fenno Patio

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Ocean Carbon Dynamics and Climate (cont.)
Chair: Jorge Sarmiento

9:00  Robert Anderson: Calcium carbonate preservation in equatorial Pacific sediments: Harbinger of the next ice age?
9:45  Ed Laws: Oceans and human health: Impacts of climate change
10:45  Raffaele Ferrari: TBA
11:30  Ray Najjar: U.S. Eastern Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Modeling, data assimilation, and analysis
12:15  End of meeting

2. Participant Information

2006 OCB Workshop Participant List

 

3. Workshop Report

2006 OCB Summer Workshop Report

 

2006 Workshop Sponsor