In addition to its broader multi-disciplinary annual summer science workshop, the OCB Project Office provides limited support for focused scoping workshops that target specific OCB research priorities, providing a public venue for members of the research community to discuss research challenges and implementation approaches. For more information, please consult the guidelines for planning OCB scoping workshops. Click here for more information on OCB activity solicitations (every 1-2 years).
OCB Scoping Workshops
Leaky deltas: sources or sinks in the global carbon cycle? (March 17-20, 2025 - Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA)
Joint OCB/US CLIVAR Workshop: Pathways Connecting Climate Changes to the Deep Ocean (April 23-25, 2024 - Lewes, DE)
Fish, Fisheries, and Carbon (March 6, 8, 9, 2023 - virtual)
Building a Cost-effective Coastal Biogeochemical Observing Network in Collaboration with the Commercial Fishing Community (January 18-20, 2023, Woods Hole, MA/hybrid)
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Essential Science and Problem Solving for Measurement, Reporting, and Verification Workshop (September 27-30, 2022, University of Rhode Island)
C-saw: Time domain controls on carbon storage, release, and transformation in coastal and estuarine waters following extreme events (October 23-26, 2022, Raleigh, NC)
Daily to decadal ecological forecasting along North American coastlines (joint scoping workshop with US CLIVAR) – PIs: Antonietta Capotondi (Univ Colorado & NOAA PSL), Victoria Coles (UMCES) (April 12-14, 2022, Woods Hole, MA)
OCB Scoping Workshop: Laying the foundation for a potential future BioGeoSCAPES program (November 10-12, 2021, virtual)
Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: Scoping directions for U.S. research (October 1-3, 2019, Sterling, Virginia)
Oceanic Methane and Nitrous Oxide: The present situation and future scenarios (October 28-31, 2018, Lake Arrowhead, CA)
Ocean Carbon Hot Spots Workshop (joint with US CLIVAR) (September 25-26, 2017, Moss Landing, CA)
Indian Ocean Science Workshop (September 11-13, 2017, La Jolla, CA)
Biogeochemical cycling of trace elements within the ocean: A synthesis workshop (August 2016, joint workshop with GEOTRACES)
Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life (October 2015, report)
Improving predictive biogeochemical models through single cell-based analyses of marine plankton physiological plasticity, genetic diversity and evolutionary processes (May 2014, published papers in Frontiers of Marine Science: Baker et al., 2016; Krupke et al., 2016; Kujawinski et al., 2016)
A Biogeochemical Flux program aligned with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (May 2011, report)
The molecular biology of biogeochemistry: Using molecular methods to link ocean chemistry with biological activity (November 2010, report)
Sea change: Charting the course for ecological and biogeochemical ocean time-series research (September 2010, report)
New Frontiers in Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (June 2009, report)
Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders (April 2009, report)
Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico (May 2008, report)
Ocean Acidification (October 2007, report)
