The US Carbon Cycle Science Program is seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for potential leads and authors to draft the Third Decadal US Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Please submit your suggestions via this form. Once leads are finalized, a workshop will be organized to kick off the writing stage of the plan.

Kathy Tedesco kathy.tedesco@noaa.gov
See https://www.carboncyclescience.us/carbon-planning for more information on prior carbon cycle science plans.

In September 2022, the OCB community gathered for a workshop to build the OCB community’s capacity to conduct research on Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of marine CDR by identifying priorities, pathways and best practices in this relatively new area. The workshop was designed to provide both education for the community as well as ample opportunities for discussion to collectively grapple with the science needed to measure and verify CDR in marine environments. At this workshop, we convened 5 main topical sessions: Lessons from land-based CDR MRV; the landscape of current marine CDR MRV; Models, methods, and measurements for sea-air CO2 flux and permanence / durability of CDR methods; MRV in an ecosystem context; and MRV in a social and environmental justice context. On the last day, we convened our group to address how we could potentially grow this community and continue to build CDR and MRV knowledge, opportunities, best practices, and interdisciplinary networks in the OCB community. Recordings of plenary lectures and panel discussions are available on the workshop website. In this webinar, we’ll briefly review the key lessons learned from this workshop, some information about community feedback, a few nascent outcomes driven by our conversations, and discuss what’s coming next. Join us!

January 24, 2023 – 16:00-17:00 EST

Watch the recording

Speakers and conveners: Jessica Cross (NOAA OAP), Jaime Palter (URI), Lennart Bach (Univ. Tasmania), Matt Long (NCAR), Patrick Rafter (UCI), Clare Reimers (OSU), Heather Benway and Mai Maheigan (OCB/WHOI)

Timing: Tuesday, October 11  9:00-11:00 am EDT

Please register for the Ocean Best Practices Workshop (free) in order to participate in this special session. You can sign up for this session via the Workshop Team Calendar (click on our Oct. 11 session and you’ll see a button to sign up to participate).

One of the aims of the Marine Ecological Time Series Research Coordination Network (METS-RCN) is to work towards standardized semantic approaches and adoption of controlled vocabularies for physical, biogeochemical, and biological parameters that are part of shipboard ocean time series data sets. Many global observing networks are currently trying to do this for biological parameters. Since we are looking at many of the same parameters, we should be coordinating and working towards a common solution.

Building on the model of a 2012 international workshop focused on methodological best practices for ship-based time series, the METS-RCN will convene a follow-on international time series workshop in 2023-2024 focused on consensus building around data and metadata best practices for ship-based time series. The OBPS workshop represents an opportunity to connect with other biology and biodiversity observing networks to share strategies for consensus building within their networks and identify common solutions (semantic approaches, use of existing and development of new terms in controlled vocabularies) in preparation for this activity next year.

Format

This will be a 2-hour panel discussion to discuss goals and guiding principles (and any progress) on  data and metadata guidelines for ocean biology and biodiversity variables:

• Marine Ecological Time Series Research Coordination Network (METS-RCN) Steering Committee members
• Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (MBON) – Enrique Montes, Gabrielle Canonico, Frank Muller-Karger
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Bio cluster – Abby Benson
• ESIP Marine cluster – Mathew Biddle
• Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) BioEco – Gabrielle Canonico, Frank Muller-Karger
• Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) – Pier Luigi Buttegieg
• Biological & Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) – Danie Kinkade
• Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) – Ward Appeltans
• Marine Life 2030 – Frank Muller-Karger, Emmett Duffy

Discussion topics

• Network’s key bio-eco variables
• Existing data infrastructure (semantic approaches, controlled vocabularies) under consideration
• User engagement – who are the target users? Are there data formats and vocabularies that best serve the target users?
• Building consensus across a network on data best practices?

C-Saw: Time domain controls on carbon storage, release, and transformation in coastal and estuarine waters following extreme events 

The aim of this workshop is to push forward our knowledge of extreme weather and fire effects on coastal carbon cycling. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists to build a community of monitors/observers, experimentalists, and modelers to address these challenging knowledge gaps across these spatial and temporal domains. Find more information and a draft agenda on the workshop website. If you wish to participate remotely and you missed the registration deadline, you can still register to receive the workshop Zoom link.

The theme of this meeting will be mixotroph evolution, spanning from the evolutionary origins of mixotrophy to the evolutionary fate of mixotrophs in a changing ocean. The two speakers will be:

Elisabeth Hehenberger (Biology Center CAS, Czech Republic)
Holly Moeller (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Register here. Learn more about this OCB working group here.