A lead up activity to the March 2025 Leaky Deltas workshop Webinar theme: Biogeomorphology and Arctic deltas September 26, 2024 at 10am Eastern Muriel Bruckner (LSU) – Modeling ecogeomorphic feedbacks in deltas to quantify the role of abiotic and biotic processes Anastasia Pillouras (PSU) – The role of Arctic deltas in modulating land-ocean fluxes” Register […]
BGC Argo Webinar #8: Comparing BGC-Argo observations with models October 16, 2024, 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern Please join us for the quarterly GO-BGC webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project Office. This webinar will be focused on comparisons between BGC-Argo observations and ocean model simulations focusing on bbp and particulate forms of carbon. […]
Marine fishes and filter-feeding gelatinous zooplankton such as salps and pyrosomes generate detritus in the form of poop and dead carcasses, which sink ~10 times faster than other oceanic detritus. This detritus is hypothesized to have a disproportionally large impact on the marine biological pump as it sequesters carbon and nutrients deeper in the water […]
Both climate change and the efforts to abate have the potential to reshape phytoplankton community composition, globally. Shallower mixed layers in a warming ocean and many marine CO2 removal (CDR) technologies will shift the balance of light, nutrients, and carbonate chemistry, benefiting certain species over others. We must understand how such shifts could ripple through […]
Introduction to Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Hyperspectral Observations for Water Quality Monitoring This online, introductory course will be cost-free and have three, 1.5-hour parts: Part 1: Introduction to the PACE Mission for Water Quality Monitoring (September 25th) Part 2: Overview, Access, and Analysis of PACE Ocean Color Data Products (October 2nd) Part 3: […]
OCB Scoping Workshop Leaky Deltas: Sources or sinks in the global carbon cycle? March 17-20, 2025 at Louisiana State Univ. (Baton Rouge, LA) River deltas and the adjacent coastal ocean are critical interfaces between terrestrial and oceanic environments. Deltas are the entry point of ~50% of the fresh water and 40% of all global particulate […]
Applications for a workshop on ethics and governance for (all forms of) climate interventions have just opened: https://apply.knowinnovation.com/climateintervention/ NSF OCE will be sending out a “KandyGram” with this information soon. The application deadline is August 23rd and we’d like to see good representation for mCDR.
Phytoplankton are the main primary producers in the ocean and fuel marine food webs. Long-term shifts in phytoplankton biomass are useful for understanding the context of short-term changes and for examining the relationships between climate indices and phytoplankton dynamics. However, current monitoring programs often offer too short a time frame to disentangle these relationships. In […]
How does the microbial carbon pump (MCP) redefine our understanding of oceanic carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation? A recent study published in Nature Reviews Microbiology reviews the pivotal role of the microbial carbon pump (MCP) a novel concept differing from the known mechanisms for carbon sequestration in the ocean, the Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), […]
Mark your calendars for OCB2025 – Plenary sessions coming soon! Thank you for submitting your fantastic plenary session ideas. The OCB SSC is refining the session lineup for next year and we’ll announce it very soon! If you haven’t heard, the OCB Summer Workshop is heading west for 2025! OCB will hold its annual summer […]
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