OCB is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members. The following SSC members are scheduled to rotate off at the end of 2022:
- Seth Bushinsky (UH) – chemical oceanography, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, air-sea gas exchange, autonomous vehicles
- Jaime Palter (URI) – physics-biogeochemistry, ocean C and heat uptake, WBCs, autonomous assets
- Patrick Rafter (UCI) – chemical oceanography, paleoceanography
- Charlie Stock (NOAA/GFDL) – interactions between climate and marine ecosystems using global earth system models
We are especially interested in filling the following expertise gaps:
- Paleoceanography, including deep time perspectives on ocean biogeochemical cycles and marine ecosystems
- Air-sea gas exchange
- Global modeling
- Role of fishes and other higher trophic level or commercially exploited species in carbon cycling and marine food webs
- Ocean oxygen cycling, deoxygenation, hypoxia
- Mixotrophs and mixotrophy
- Social science perspectives on marine ecosystem response to climate change
- Marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) – carbon fluxes, permanence, circulation, air-sea exchange, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV), as well as environmental justice
Please consider casting a diverse net in submitting nominations. We are seeking to entrain new voices and ideas in OCB! Nominees should be at US-based institutions (including Univ. Puerto Rico, Univ. Virgin Islands or in other US territories, minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, etc.). Please submit your nomination (self-nominations are welcome) here by November 14. To learn more about what the OCB SSC is/does, please visit the SSC page of the OCB website.
