In October 2019, OCB convened a workshop for US-based scientists working at the air-sea interface to identify research priorities and facilitate the communication and collaboration required for future significant research advances. Leadership for this workshop was provided by the Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee (OAIC). Emerging from the discussions at the workshop is a new US […]
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Announcing the New OCB Activities beginning in 2022 – more information coming soon. Training activity What’s behind the curtain of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? (PIs: J. Werdell, B. Cairns, I. Cetinić, A. Mannino, V. Martins, L. Remer, P. Zhai) Workshop & working group Problem solving in marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR): […]
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Webinar Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 11am-12pm ET View recording The Committee on A Research Strategy for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration will be releasing their report entitled A Research Strategy for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration on December 8, 2021, at 11:00 AM ET. A public report release webinar will also be held from 11:00 AM […]
Read MoreOCB Scoping Workshop BioGeoSCAPES (www.biogeoscapes.org) is an international initiative to integrate knowledge on marine microbial identity and physiology within frameworks of community ecology and global ocean biogeochemistry. The vision is an improved, predictive, and quantitative understanding of ocean metabolism on a changing planet can be achieved by combining detailed information on plankton cell status, biochemical […]
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GLODAPv2.2021 has been successfully released! But its already time to look ahead and prepare the upcoming update GLODAPv2.2022. To start off, we are now officially calling for new cruise submissions. We are looking for cruises which have “carbon-relevant” data, i.e. have a finalized cruise bottle file with at least one: • Inorganic sub-parameter (TA, DIC, pH, fCO2) and/or […]
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Carbon Isotopes in the Ocean: Ensuring High-Quality Results Workshop WHEN: Nov 1-3, 2021 (NEW DATES) WHERE: Virtual Are you interested in this workshop and/or its products? Sign up for updates and stay tuned on the workshop website.
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2022 OCB Activity Solicitation The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2022 calendar year. Due to ongoing COVID-related uncertainties, in-person activities should include contingency plans in case delays or cancellations are necessary. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities as […]
Read MoreCall for SSC nominations OCB is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members, including a new early career SSC member. To qualify for the early career slot, a nominee must have completed a PhD within the last 4 years; both postdoctoral researchers and faculty members are eligible. For the early career nominees who […]
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OCB2022 will take place June 20-23, 2022 in Woods Hole, MA. We want to hear your ideas on plenary sessions for this meeting – please submit here.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2021 Greetings, We are looking for scientists with experience in physical and/or biogeochemical hydrography and in oceanographic expedition organization who would be interested in participating as Chief Scientist on one of the two legs of the GO-SHIP (https://usgoship.ucsd.edu and http://www.go-ship.org) decadal re-occupation of the hydrographic section P02 along 30°N in the Pacific1, tentatively […]
Read MoreRequest for public input to the comprehensive NASA/IOCCG-sponsored Aquatic Primary Productivity Field Protocol for Satellite Validation and Model Synthesis, which was recently posted on the IOCCG website for a 90-day community feedback period. This document is the product of a three-year effort with the objective to produce community consensus protocols for aquatic primary productivity appropriate […]
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Virtual Community Meeting on pre-Arctic-COLORS Data Synthesis As NASA prepares for the Arctic-COLORS large-scale field campaign (https://arctic-colors.gsfc.nasa.gov/) in the near future, it is imperative to identify and characterize existing field data sets, modeling activities, and remote sensing capabilities within the coastal Arctic region that make up the Arctic-COLORS study domain. To work towards accomplishing these […]
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The OCB Phytoplankton Taxonomy Working Group has been working to establish standards and best practices for submitting taxonomic and morphological information for plankton and other particles from images collected by imaging instruments, such as the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), FlowCAM and Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP), to data repositories (e.g., NASA’s SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS) and […]
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Comment by August 6: Draft Air-Sea Workshop Report (US SOLAS Science Plan) now available for comment
The OCB Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee (OAIC) recently convened a 3-day science workshop to identify US air-sea research priorities and foster new collaborations. From the discussions at the workshop, the OAIC led the assembly of a “grassroots” document to provide a common set of science goals and research priorities. The draft document was open for […]
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Dear Colleagues, The virtual US BioGeoSCAPES Planning Workshop, funded by the US Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) program will took place in November 2021. The proposed BioGeoSCAPES program aims to improve our understanding of the functioning and regulation of ocean metabolism and its interactions with nutrient cycling, within the context of a hierarchical seascape perspective. […]
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