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Celebrating 20 years of OCB + OCB2027 dates

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, June 22nd, 2026 

Save the dates for OCB2027 in person June 22-25, 2027

2026 marks 20 years since the OCB Project Office began in 2006 to support science, community, and connection across a globally distributed network of scientists! To celebrate all the accomplishments of the community across these two decades, OCB is convening a one-day virtual symposium on November 18, 2026. The symposium will highlight scientific discoveries, game-changing technologies, and lessons learned from the perspective of OCB community members.

This 20th anniversary symposium will feature the following four topics, which have seen a lot of growth in OCB, particularly in the last decade:

  • Air-Sea Interactions 
  • Biological Carbon Pump
  • Ocean Carbon Removal
  • Ocean Metabolism (featuring programmatic developments across GEOTRACES, OCB, and the newly emerging BioGeoSCAPES)

Speakers and panelists will be announced soon.

The November 18 event will start at 11 am (Eastern Standard Time) and run approx. 7 hours with numerous breaks.

Learn more and register

 

 

Register for the 7th DMS(P) Symposium: Sulfur Carbon Nexus in the SOLAS Sphere

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, May 18th, 2026 

A joint workshop with SCOR, SOLAS, and Schmidt Sciences: Climate

October 12-15, 2026 in person at Bigelow Laboratory (Boothbay Harbor, Maine) and online.

The organosulfur compound dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) ignited an entire subfield of biogeochemistry to investigate the precursor of the “anti-greenhouse gas” dimethylsulfide (DMS). Since then, decades of research have unveiled the importance of DMS(P), and related compounds, to carbon cycling and air-sea interactions, and ultimately an outsized contribution to global climate. This Symposium will bring together a diversity of researchers interested in synthesizing the inextricable link of the sulfur and carbon cycles from cellular to global scale processes. OCB will provide partial support for this workshop, to be held at the Bigelow Laboratory later this year in partnership with Schmidt Sciences: Climate, SOLAS, and SCOR.

Leads: Stephen Archer (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Erin McParland (Oregon State University), David Kieber (State University of New York) and Patricia Matrai (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Katherina Petrou (University of Technology Sydney) and Elisabeth Deschaseaux (Institut de Ciènces del Mar).

This will be the first DMS(P) Symposium gathering since the 6th Symposium, held in Barcelona, Spain, in 2014! More information will continue to be updated on the Symposium webpage.

The sessions are:
Atmosphere: carbon – sulfur chemistry and aerosols
Air-sea exchange of carbon – sulfur compounds
Carbon-sulfur ocean processes: molecular to ecosystem to global
Translating observations into models: biogeochemistry to climate

Registration is now open. 

Learn more and register

New OCSIF Subcommittee

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, May 14th, 2026 

This new OCSIF OCB subcommittee focused on identifying and addressing uncertainties in the seawater carbonate system and increasing measurement inter-comparability, now has a full membership – see the new members and more info here.

Benthic Models & Data Synthesis

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, May 8th, 2026 

New OCB Sediment Biogeochemistry Model Intercomparison Project (SedMIP) Working Group seeking input

Do you use and/or build benthic models? With the goal of designing a MIP for benthic models, OCB’s SedMIP WG is conducting an inventory of existing benthic models and would benefit from your feedback on model applications, components, and inputs/outputs to inform our planning process. Please take a few moments to share your input.

Two papers published by the OCB Benthic Ecosystem & Carbon Synthesis (BECS) WG

Schultz, C., Luo, J. Y., Brady, D. C., Fulweiler, R. W., Long, M. H., Petrik, C. M., Testa, J. M., Benway, H. M., Burdige, D., Cecchetto, M. M., Elegbede, I., Evans, N., Frenzel, A., Gillen, K., Herbert, L. C., Hirsh, H. K., Lessin, G., Levin, L., Maiti, K., Malkin, S., Mincks, S. L., Nmor, S., Pham, A., Pinckney, J., Rabouille, C., Rahman, S., Rakshit, S., Ray, N. E., Sasaki, D. K., Siedlecki, S. A., Somes, C., Stubbins, A., Sulpis, O., Trevisan, C., Xu, Y., Yin, H. (2025). Elucidating the role of marine benthic carbon in a changing world. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39, e2025GB008643. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008643.

Siedlecki, S., Nmor, S., Lessin, G., Kearney, K., Rakshit, S., Petrik, C., Luo, J., Schultz, C., Sasaki, D., Gillen, K., Pham, A., Somes, C., Brady, D., Testa, J., Rabouille, C., Elegbede, I., and Sulpis, O. (2025). Sediment Biogeochemistry Model Intercomparison Project (SedBGC_MIP): motivation and guidance for its experimental design, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1846.

 

 

SOOS webinar and ECR call for leadership in WGs

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 

SOOS & APECS are seeking Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to join the leadership of several Regional Working Groups:

This role helps connect observations, data & people across regions while contributing to coordination, communication, and community building in Southern Ocean science.

You’ll also gain:
– international network connections
– experience in science coordination & leadership
– potential contributions to publications

Deadline: 18 May 2026
Apply

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Webinar! New ways to eat: ecological influences on novel feeding in WAP humpback whales

Listen to Jenny Allen (University of St Andrews ) talk about novel feeding behaviour in humpback whales on 7 May 2026 at 13:00 UTC – brought to you by the SOOS WAPSA working group.
Everyone welcome!
Register here: go.soos.aq/WAPSA_webinar_register

 

Register today for these upcoming OCB webinars

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, April 30th, 2026 

September 22 - Metabarcoding webinar register

September 23 - Go-BGC webinar register

September 24 - SedMIP webinar register

November 18 - 20 Years of OCB Symposium register

Find more detail on upcoming and past OCB webinars here, and watch recordings on topical playlists on the OCB YouTube Channel.

OCB will support participation in Cornell Summer Satellite Remote Sensing Workshop

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 

OCB will support participation in Cornell Summer Satellite Remote Sensing Workshop
June 1 – June 12, 2026, Cornell University, Ithaca New York

The Cornell Summer Satellite Remote Sensing Workshop is being offered once again this year. The workshop is highly methods-oriented and intended to give participants the practical skills needed to work independently to acquire, analyze and visualize large data sets derived from a wide range of ocean satellite sensors.

Strong emphasis is given to ocean color remote sensing and the use of NASA’s SeaDAS software to derive mapped imagery of geophysical parameters using satellite data derived from the most popular ocean color sensors.  Pre-written python scripts will be used in conjunction with SeaDAS to enable processing large quantities of ocean color data from Level-1 to Level-3.  In addition, the workshop will address the acquisition and use of Level-3 satellite data products for sea surface temperature, ocean wind speed and sea surface height.

A central goal of the course is to develop good python programming skills that are needed to make effective use of satellite data to routinely monitor ocean conditions, gain new insights into ocean dynamics, and to rigorously test new hypotheses.  Participants will work with both Jupyter Notebooks and executing python scripts from the Unix Terminal.

For more information about the training workshop content and enrollment process:
Visit: http://oceanography.eas.cornell.edu/satellite
Email: Bruce Monger

OCB will provide tuition, housing, and a travel stipend for up to 4 US-based participants in this training course. Please send the following materials in a single formatted PDF file to hbenway@whoi.edu by April 13:

1) Abbreviated (2 pages max) CV 
2) 1-page statement of interest about how this course would benefit your education, research, and/or professional goals. 

Applications will be reviewed the week of April 13, and applicants will be notified the week of April 20. 

April 23 – first SedMIP webinar

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 

→Learn more about benthic modeling activities during the first SedMIP webinar on April 23 at 3pm – join us for a recap + summary of key points raised at the OSM26 town hall, intro to model inventory and model participation, and ways to get involved in this activity, we also are seeking speakers for this webinar series.

Register for April 23

Sign up for updates, or to give a webinar talk
Take our short survey to inform the SedMIP activity by March 31

 

Learn more about this activity: https://www.us-ocb.org/sedmip/

New unified interface for existing ocean carbonate chemistry data products

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 

The paper provides a comprehensive synthesis of 68 existing ocean carbonate chemistry data products and data product sets, including cruise-based compilations, time-series datasets, gap-filled observational products, and model-based reconstructions. The authors highlight the diversity of available products, noting differences in spatial coverage, temporal resolution, methodologies, and intended scientific applications. By systematically cataloguing and comparing these datasets, the study helps researchers identify which products are most suitable for specific scientific questions related to ocean carbon cycling and ocean acidification.

ESSD Paper

Interface for the most updated list of products

Submission interface

 

Authors
Li-Qing Jiang (University of Maryland; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information; Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Amanda Fay (Columbia University / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Jens Daniel Müller (ETH Zürich; Carbon to Sea Initiative)
Luke Gregor (ETH Zürich; Swiss Data Science Center)
Alizée Roobaert (Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ)
Lydia Keppler (Vycarb Inc.)
Dustin Carroll (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Siv K. Lauvset (NORCE Research / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
Tim DeVries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Judith Hauck (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research)
Christian Rödenbeck (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
Nicolas Metzl (Sorbonne Université / LOCEAN)
Andrea J. Fassbender (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Jean-Pierre Gattuso (Sorbonne Université / CNRS; Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche)
Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
Rik Wanninkhof (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
Christopher Sabine (University of Hawaii at Mānoa)
Simone R. Alin (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Mario Hoppema (Alfred Wegener Institute)
Are Olsen (University of Bergen / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
Matthew P. Humphreys (University of East Anglia)
Kunal Chakraborty (National Institute of Oceanography, India)
Ana C. Franco (University of Miami)
Kumiko Azetsu-Scott (Bedford Institute of Oceanography / Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Dorothee C. E. Bakker (University of East Anglia)
Leticia Barbero (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
Nicholas R. Bates (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences / Arizona State University)
Nicole Besemer (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
Henry C. Bittig (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
Albert E. Boyd (University of Tasmania)
Daniel Broullón (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, IEO-CSIC)
Wei-Jun Cai (University of Delaware)
Brendan R. Carter (University of Washington)
Thi-Tuyet-Trang Chau (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ)
Chen-Tung Arthur Chen (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Frédéric Cyr (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
John E. Dore (University of Hawaii)
Ian Enochs (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
Richard A. Feely (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Hernan E. Garcia (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information)
Marion Gehlen (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ)
Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal (CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, India)
Lucas Gloege (Princeton University)
Melchor González-Dávila (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Nicolas Gruber (ETH Zürich)
Debby Ianson (Fisheries and Oceans Canada / Institute of Ocean Sciences)
Yosuke Iida (Japan Meteorological Agency)
Masao Ishii (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan)
Apurva Padamnabh Joshi (CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, India)
Esther Kennedy (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Alex Kozyr (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information)
Nico Lange (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
Claire Lo Monaco (Sorbonne Université / LOCEAN)
Derek P. Manzello (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
Galen A. McKinley (Columbia University / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Natalie M. Monacci (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Xosé A. Padin (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, IEO-CSIC)
Ana M. Palacio-Castro (Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, CSIC)
Fiz F. Pérez (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, IEO-CSIC)
J. Magdalena Santana-Casiano (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Jonathan Sharp (University of Delaware)
Adrienne Sutton (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Jim Swift (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Toste Tanhua (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
Maciej Telszewski (International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, IOCCP)
Jens Terhaar (University of Bern)
Ruben van Hooidonk (University of Miami / NOAA Coral Reef Watch)
Anton Velo (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, IEO-CSIC)
Andrew J. Watson (University of Exeter)
Angelicque E. White (Oregon State University)
Zelun Wu (University of Delaware)
Liang Xue (Xiamen University)
Hyelim Yoo (University of Maryland / NOAA NCEI)
Jiye Zeng (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
Guorong Zhong (Xiamen University)

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Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, March 12th, 2026 

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