OCB2021 Archive

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OCB2021 AGENDA

MONDAY, JUNE 7

12:00-12:30 pm Workshop welcome and introduction (Heather Benway, Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Marjorie Friedrichs, Virginia Inst. Marine Science; Victoria Coles, Univ. Maryland Center for Environmental Science)

12:00-12:20 pm Welcome and introduction (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI)

12:20-12:25 pm OCB leadership and plenary overview (Marjy and Victoria)

12:25-12:30 pm Mike from ePB give quick overview of meeting platform

12:30-2:30 OCB PLENARY SESSION: Bridging the divide between ocean biology and geochemistry  (BREAKOUT ROOM)

Chairs and Speakers – P. Dreux Chappell (Old Dominion Univ.), Adam Martiny (Univ. California, Irvine), Patrick Rafter (Univ. California, Irvine), Bethanie Edwards (Univ. California Berkeley, USA), Andrew Barton (Univ. California San Diego, Scripps Inst. Oceanography, USA), Daniele Iudicone (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Alyse Larkin (Univ. California Irvine, USA), Mak Saito (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., USA)

12:30-12:45 pm Introduction and overview

12:45-1:05 pm Audience Q&A

1:05-1:10 pm Breakout charge

1:10-2:00 pm Breakout session

Primary Questions:

• What are specific biogeochemical and ecological questions that we haven’t been able to answer yet that could be answered by a formal effort to pair geochemical measurements with ‘OMICs measurements?
• What challenges still remain in making such an effort successful? (intercalibration, timescales, etc.)
• Is now the right time for a coordinated effort to combine geochemistry and biological ‘OMICs sampling on a more global scale (i.e., a BioGeoSCAPES type effort)?

Secondary Questions:

• What co-collected (or nearly co-collected) datasets are available already?
• What are some exciting new discoveries that have come from coordinated sampling efforts?

2:00-2:30 pm Reconvene and report out

2:30 pm Adjourn session

2:30-2:45 pm Bio break/informal networking

2:45-4:45 pm Networking time

4:45 pm Adjourn for day

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 11  

12:00-12:15 pm Welcome to the day – announcements and instructions (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Mike Elliott, ePosterboards)

12:15-2:15 pm OCB PLENARY SESSION: Opportunities and challenges in ecological forecasting (BREAKOUT ROOM)

Chairs and Speakers – Victoria Coles (Univ. Maryland Center for Environmental Science), Antonietta Capotondi (NOAA Physical Science Laboratory), Charles Stock (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)

12:15-12:20 pm Session introduction (Antonietta Capotondi, NOAA Physical Science Laboratory)

12:20-12:40 pm LIVE PLENARY TALK: Current state of the art in ecological forecasting (Charles Stock, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)

12:40-12:50 pm Audience Q&A

12:50-12:55 pm Breakout instructions

12:55-1:30 pm Breakout Discussion Part 1: Physical settings

• Human- and freshwater-influenced systems (e.g., estuaries, riverine influenced systems) (Floors 1-4, Tables 1-3)
• Eastern Boundary Current upwelling systems (e.g., US west coast, European west coasts, Peru-Chile upwelling etc.) (Floors 1-4, Table 4)
• Western Boundary Current systems and interaction with the shelf (e.g., US Mid Atlantic Bight, Eastern Africa) (Floors 1-4, Table 5)
• Equatorial systems (e.g., ENSO-dominated systems, Equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans) (Floors 1-4, Table 6)
• Subtropical systems (e.g., South Pacific HNLC regions, Pacific shadow zones) (Floors 1-4, Table 7)
• Subpolar systems (e.g., Northern North Atlantic, Alaskan Gyre) (Floors 1-4, Table 8)
• Polar systems (e.g., Arctic and Antarctic) (Floors 1-4, Tables 9-10)
• Marginal seas (e.g., Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean) (Floors 1-4, Table 11)
• Other (Floors 1-4, Table 12)

Breakout Part 1 Questions

1. What are existing and/or potential applications for ecological forecasting and their relevant timescales (e.g. Nowcast, Synoptic (5-14 days), Seasonal-Interannual, Decadal-Climate) in this particular physical setting?
2. What management needs already, or could potentially, align with these applications? (such as specific users or prior use cases)
3. What obstacles (e.g. knowledge gaps, forecasting approaches, data) need to be overcome to realize these applications? (Note that someone outside your table may have this information but not realize its value to the application, so listing it here provides the opportunity for cross group synthesis.)
4. Can locally relevant applications be adapted across these regions, and/or to other regions with different characteristics?

1:30-1:35 pm SWITCH TOPIC TABLES

1:35-2:10 pm Breakout Discussion Part 2: Forecasting Applications (Floors 5-8)

• Oxygen and hypoxia (open ocean and coastal) (Floors 5-8, Tables 1-2)
• Acidification and carbon system dynamics (e.g. saturation state for shellfish, air-sea exchange, etc.) (Floors 5-8, Tables 3-4)
• Fishes and fisheries (e.g. higher trophic level organisms and the fisheries system that includes fishing) (Floors 5-8, Table 5)
• Harmful algal blooms and pathogens (e.g. toxic organisms or substances that impact humans and other elements of the ecosystem) (Floors 5-8, Table 6)
• Temperature and marine heat waves (e.g. thermal and or salinity signals that impact ecosystem function and timing) (Floors 5-8, Table 7)
• Sea level rise and variability (e.g. ecological impacts on coastal systems such as marshes or mangroves) (Floors 5-8, Table 8)
• Transport and ecological connectivity (e.g. larval transport, oil or plastics transport, genetic connectivity) (Floors 5-8, Table 9)
• Terrestrial and atmospheric inputs (e.g. riverine or atmospheric input of micro and macro nutrients) (Floors 5-8, Table 10)
• Phenology and productivity (e.g. timing of spring bloom, changes in ecosystem productivity) (Floors 5-8, Table 11)
• Other (Floors 5-8, Table 12)

Breakout Part 2 Questions

What forecast timescales (e.g. Nowcast, Synoptic (5-14 days), Seasonal-Interannual, Decadal-Climate) are relevant to this ecological forecasting application, and in which regions?

1. Do those timescales align with what is needed by managers and users?
2. What approaches (e.g. dynamical, empirical, machine learning, other) would be most appropriate for the different timescales?
3. What obstacles (e.g. knowledge gaps, forecasting approaches, data) need to be overcome to realize these applications? (Note that someone outside your table may have this information but not realize its value to the application, so listing it here provides the opportunity for cross group synthesis.)

2:10-2:15 pm Breakout synthesis by reporters – reporters (Session 2) will stay or move (Session 1) back to their table to synthesize the conversation on the white board. Other participants are welcome to contribute to synthesis.

2:15-2:30 pm Bio break/informal networking (LOBBY)

2:30-3:15 pm Poster session (POSTER HALL)

3:15-4:15 pm Striving to do better in OCB and the ocean sciences (BREAKOUT ROOM)

3:15-3:20 pm Opening remarks (OCB SSC members: P. Dreux Chappell, ODU and Victoria Coles, UMCES)

• 3:20-3:30 pm OCB survey highlights and breakout charge (Heather Benway and Mai Maheigan, OCB/WHOI)
• 3:30-4:00 pm Ocean Action Discussion
• 4:00-4:15 pm Invite participants to share discussion outcomes

4:15-5:15 pm Happy hour! (LOBBY)

5:15 pm Adjourn for day

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

8:00-8:15 am Welcome to the day – announcements and instructions (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Mike Elliott, ePosterboards)

8:15-10:15 am OCB PLENARY SESSION: Ocean-based negative emissions technologies (BREAKOUT ROOM)

Chairs and Speakers – Lennart Bach (Univ. Tasmania, Australia), Jaime Palter (Univ. Rhode Island), Clare Reimers (Oregon State Univ.), Patrick Rafter (Univ. California, Irvine), David Keller (GEOMAR Kiel, Germany), Ros Rickaby (Oxford Univ., UK), Lisa Windham-Myers (US Geological Survey, USA), Nichole Price (Bigelow Laboratory, USA), Joo-Eun Yoon (Incheon National University, South Korea), David Koweek (Stanford, Ocean Visions, USA), Veronica Tamsitt (Univ New South Wales, AUS), Julius Busecke (Columbia Univ., USA), Candis Callison (UBC)

8:15-8:30 am LIVE TALK:  Session introduction and overview (Lennart Bach, Univ. Tasmania, Australia)

8:30-8:55 am Speaker Q&A (LENNART MODERATE) – let everyone introduce themselves and audience ask speakers Qs about their talks using the Q&A function

8:55-9:00 am Breakout charge (LENNART) – have groups assign reporters and put reporter name and table topic in the Chat (we will choose as many as we have time for to come up and report out at the end); remind people to take notes on the whiteboards, this is a potentially new OCB research area, so we are interested in pointed feedback on how OCB can foster the necessary community building for new research and activities

9:00-10:00 am Breakout discussions (8 people/group)

• Ocean alkalinity enhancement (Tables 1-2)
• Ocean afforestation (Tables 3-4)
• Iron Fertilization (Tables 5-6)
• Blue Carbon (Tables 7-8)
• Artificial upwelling (Table 9-10)
• Storage permanence (Table 11)
• Other (Table 12)

Breakout Questions

1. What is the state of knowledge with respect to the quantitative contribution this method could make toward carbon removal?
2. What tools/studies are needed to reduce uncertainty on that quantitative range?
3. What hands-on research is most urgently needed on the topic overall and where are likely funding sources?
4. Are there “knock-out criteria” that can be identified that would suggest a solution will not be viable?
5. What are the key ethical/community-based questions and stakeholders that should be incorporated in ocean negative emissions technology research, both in general and with respect to the method being discussed at the table?

10:00-10:15 am Reconvene

10:15 am Adjourn session

10:15-10:30 am Bio break/informal networking (LOBBY)

10:30-11:15 am Poster session (POSTER HALL)

11:15 am-12:30 pm Agency presentations and Q&A (LECTURE HALL)

1. NSF: Michael Sieracki (BO) Henrietta Edmonds (CO), Cynthia Suchman (BO), Mete Uz (PO)
2. NASA: Laura Lorenzoni (OBB)
3. NOAA: Kathy Tedesco (GOMO), Dwight Gledhill (OAP)

Q&A for Agency panel members

12:30-1:30 pm Networking time (NETWORKING AREA)

1:30 pm Adjourn for day

 

Friday, June 18

12:00-12:15 pm Welcome to the day (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Mike Elliott, ePosterboards) (BREAKOUT ROOM)

12:15-2:15 OCB PLENARY SESSION: Ocean Worlds  (BREAKOUT ROOM)

Panelists – Laura Lorenzoni (NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate), Chris German (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Alison Murray (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Jeff Seewald (WHOI), Wanying Kang (Massachusetts Inst. Technology), Ved Chirayath (NASA Ames Research Center), Mike Behrenfeld (Oregon State Univ.), Jacqueline Grebmeier (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science), Don Blankenship (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics), Anna Michel (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Heidi Dierssen (Univ. Connecticut), Thorsten Markus (NASA HQ), Mary Voytek (NASA HQ), Ashley Kleinman (NASA JPL), Paula Bontempi (URI), Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames), Michael New (NASA HQ).

12:15-12:30 pm Introduction and overview

12:30-12:35 pm Breakout charge

12:35-1:20 pm Breakout discussions (45 minutes)

• Ocean world workings (Tables 1-2) Heidi Dierrsen, Alison Murray
• Biogeochemistry of ocean worlds (Tables 3-4) Anna Michel, Thorsten Markus
• Analogs (Tables 5-6) Mike Behrenfeld, Jeff Seewald
• Technology (Tables 7-8) Jackie Grebmeier, Donald Blankenship
• Life detection in ocean worlds (Tables 9-10) Wanying Kang, Ved Chirayath
• Other/Rogue (Tables 11-12) Mary Voytek, Chris German, Paula Bontempi, Tori Hoehler

Breakout Qs

1. How can Earth oceanography studies constrain and inform our understanding of the processes on other ocean worlds, and how can ocean worlds exploration illuminate gaps in Earth oceanography?
2. What current gaps and knowledge exist in Earth and Planetary ocean research that we can address through a stronger collaboration across disciplines?
3.  How can Earth oceanography and planetary Ocean World exploration strategies and mission technologies inform one another?
4. What does our understanding of the Earth’s system reveal about the habitability of ocean worlds in the universe?
5. Can studies evaluating climate change be applicable to understanding the evolution of an ocean world?
6. How should we characterize biosignatures? What should we look for? Where? How?
7. Which Earth analogs may be applicable to Ocean Worlds and are not currently being studied?
8.  How can work in analog environments inform planetary protection strategies/needs

1:20-1:35 – Plenary from Michael New (NASA HQ) on cross-divisional work focused on Ocean Worlds, and what does it take to make an Ocean World mission happen? From science to Sensors on the ground?

1:35-2:15 pm Panel discussion and Q&A

2:15 pm Adjourn session (Laura and Ashley)

2:15-2:30 pm Bio break/informal networking (LOBBY)

2:30-3:15 pm Poster session (POSTER HALL)

3:15-4:15 pm Plenary: OCB activity highlight Mixotrophs and Mixotrophy Working Group (BREAKOUT ROOM) 

Speakers and panelists: Nicole Millette (Virginia Inst. Marine Science), Jessica Luo (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Rebecca Gast (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Karen Stamieszkin (Virginia Inst. Marine Science), Holly Moeller (Univ. California, Santa Barbara)

• 3:15-3:30 pm Introduction (Nicole Millette, VIMS)
• 3:30-4:15 pm Panel discussion and Q&A

4:20-6:00 pm Ocean Careers and Funding: A Reception for Students and Postdocs (BREAKOUT ROOM)

4:20-6:00 pm Happy hour for other participants! (LOBBY)

6:00 pm Adjourn for day

 

Tuesday, June 22

12:00-12:15 pm Welcome to the day (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Kathrynn Phillippe, ePosterboards) (BREAKOUT ROOM)

12:15-2:15 OCB PLENARY SESSION: Optical biogeochemistry: Above and below the waterline (BREAKOUT ROOM)

Chairs and Speakers (on stage the whole time except for breakouts) (7) – Amy Maas (Bermuda Inst. of Ocean Sciences), Seth Bushinsky (Univ. Hawai’i Manoa), Maria Tzortziou (City College of New York/City Univ. of New York), Angelicque White (Univ. Hawai’i, Manoa), Ivona Cetinić (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Joe Salisbury (Univ. New Hampshire), Blake Clark (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Heather as a helper 

12:15-12:30 pm Introduction and overview

1. Amy Maas (BIOS) – Introduce session and panelists
2. Maria Tzortziou
3. Angelicque White (Univ. Hawai’i, Manoa) – in situ measurements
4. Ivona Cetinić (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) – data integration in process studies
5. Joe Salisbury (Univ. New Hampshire) – satellite measurements
6. Blake Clark (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) – optics data integration in biogeochemical models

12:30-12:35 pm Breakout charge (Maria Tzortziou CCNY)

12:35-1:35 pm Breakout discussions

In situ technologies and datasets  (Tables 1-3)

• Community use of large campaign data (Tables 4-6)
• New satellite missions (Tables 7-9)
• Optics in BGC Models (Tables 10-12)

Breakout Questions

Topic #1: In Situ Technologies and Datasets (Tables 1-3)

1. What are some of the major gaps (e.g., optical parameters, size classes, or spatiotemporal coverage, data format) in the use of optical datasets to quantify the movement of carbon through marine ecosystems?
2. What standard suite of optical sensors should be incorporated into the rapidly expanding ocean-observing platforms (floats, gliders, moorings)? What should be targeted for future investment?
3. What are the greatest technological hurdles in the use of optics to address biogeochemical questions?
4. Scientists engaged in optical technology tool or proxy development, application to site-specific ecological questions, and optical data use in global models have different objectives, perspectives and goals. What are the greatest “culture of practice” obstacles that we must overcome to effectively integrate their various knowledge sets to address the big scientific questions?
5. What steps can the community make to overcome these obstacles?

Topic #2: Community use of large campaign data (Tables 4-6)

1. Where are we missing major field campaigns or what processes/measurements should be covered by new field campaigns?
2. How can the wider scientific community best integrate optical data from different major field campaigns to address biogeochemical questions (even those who did not participate in any field campaigns)? Challenges and potential solutions.
3. How can we best coordinate multi-agency, multi-national field campaigns going forward?
4. Scientists engaged in optical technology tool or proxy development, application to site-specific ecological questions, and optical data use in global models have different objectives, perspectives and goals. What are the greatest “culture of practice” obstacles that we must overcome to effectively integrate their various knowledge sets to address the big scientific questions?
5. What steps can the community make to overcome these obstacles?

Topic #3: New satellite missions (Tables 7-9)

1. What are some of the key, novel products that will be developed by new/upcoming satellite missions, and what are the most important remaining challenges (and potential solutions) in linking these data to ocean biogeochemical processes.
2. How do we integrate and leverage datasets and resources (e.g., simulated datasets, cal/val efforts) from both new and old satellite missions to address novel science in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry?
3. Beyond PACE, GLIMR and SBG, what new satellite ocean missions and satellite data products do we need to better quantify the movement of carbon through marine ecosystems (from inland to coastal and open ocean environments)?
4. Scientists engaged in optical technology tool or proxy development, application to site-specific ecological questions, and optical data use in global models have different objectives, perspectives and goals.  What are the greatest “culture of practice” obstacles that we must overcome to effectively integrate their various knowledge sets to address the big scientific questions?
5. What steps can the community make to overcome these obstacles?

Topic #4: Optics in BGC Models (Tables 10-12)

1. What are some conceptual or technical strategies to utilize new in-situ and upcoming orbital information in existing BGC modeling architecture?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assimilating ocean color derived products? What are some new approaches that can utilize the coming hyperspectral capabilities?
3. What are important pathways that current BGC models are missing or are poorly constrained that can be improved with enhanced inclusion of optical datasets?
4. Scientists engaged in optical technology tool or proxy development, application to site-specific ecological questions, and optical data use in global models have different objectives, perspectives and goals.  What are the greatest “culture of practice” obstacles that we must overcome to effectively integrate their various knowledge sets to address the big scientific questions?
5. What steps can the community make to overcome these obstacles?​

1:30-2:15 pm Breakout report outs, panel discussion and Q&A (Moderators: Amy Maas, Seth Bushinski , Maria Tzortziou, CCNY/CUNY/Columbia Univ.)

2:15 pm Adjourn session

2:15-2:30 Bio break/informal networking (LOBBY)

2:30-3:15 Poster session (POSTER HALL)

3:15-4:15 Community discussion CO₂-in-Seawater Reference Materials: Planning for the future  (LECTURE HALL)   

3:15-3:20 pm Introduction, NOAA OAP and NSF support for CRM continuity/evolution (Libby Jewett, NOAA OAP, Hedy Edmonds, NSF Chemical Oceanography)

3:20-3:30 pm High-level overview of production to date (Andrew Dickson, SIO)

3:30-3:40 pm NIST Traceable Reference Material (NTRM) gas standard program as one potential model for the US node (Regina Easley, NIST)

3:40-3:50 pm Overview of other options for the future and changes to the approach, from the IWG-OA’s perspective (slides 4-5 of her “small fed” presentation) (Shallin Busch, NOAA)

3:50-4:15 Q&A and Panel discussion (Moderators: Mike Acquafredda and Courtney Cochran, NOAA OAP)

4:15-4:45 Plenary: Integrated Ocean Carbon Research IOC-R vision document “A Summary of Ocean Carbon Research, and Vision of Coordinated Ocean Carbon Research and Observations for the Next Decade”  (LECTURE HALL)

• 4:15-4:35 LIVE presentation (Christopher Sabine, Univ. Hawai’i, Manoa)
• 4:35-4:45 Audience Q&A

4:45-5:30 Networking time (NETWORKING AREA)

5:30 Adjourn for day

 

Thursday, June 24

12:00-12:15  Welcome to the day (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Mike Elliott, ePosterboards) (LECTURE HALL)

12:15-12:45 Plenary: Bio-GO-SHIP: Linking marine biodiversity and biogeochemistry (LECTURE HALL)

Speakers and panelists: Adam Martiny (Univ. California, Irvine), Harriet Alexander (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Sophie Clayton (Old Dominion Univ.), Jason Graff (Oregon State Univ.), Nicole Poulton (Bigelow Laboratory)

• 12:15-12:30 LIVE TALK (Adam Martiny, UCI)
• 12:30-12:45 Q&A and panel discussion (Moderators: Harriet Alexander, Nicole Poulton)

 

1:00-1:30 pm Plenary: New OCB activity Coastal Arctic Biogeochemical Data Synthesis in Preparation for Arctic-COLORS  (LECTURE HALL)

Speakers and panelists: Anne Kellerman (Florida State Univ.), Antonio Mannino (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Rob Spencer (Florida State Univ.), Maria Tzortziou (City College of New York/City Univ. New York), Peter Hernes (Univ. California, Davis)

1:00-1:15 pm LIVE TALK (Anne Kellerman (Florida State Univ.)

• 1:15-1:30 pm Audience Q&A (Moderator: Antonio Mannino, NASA GSFC)

1:30-2:00 pm Plenary: New OCB activity Carbon isotopes in the ocean: Ensuring high-quality results in the future (LECTURE HALL)

Speakers and panelists: Ann McNichol (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Roberta Hansman (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Bob Key (Princeton Univ)

• 1:30-1:45 pm LIVE TALK (Ann McNichol, WHOI)
• 1:45-2:00 pm Q&A and panel discussion (Moderator: Roberta Hansman)

2:00-2:30 Plenary: Workshop wrap-up and parting thoughts (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI, Victoria Coles, OCB SSC/UMCES) (LECTURE HALL)

2:30-3:30 pm Farewell happy hour! (LOBBY)

3:30 pm Adjourn workshop