Summary of N2 Fixation Town Hall at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, OR Conveners: Angelicque White (Oregon State Univ.), Pia Moisander (Univ. Massachusetts, Dartmouth), Julie Granger (Univ. Connecticut) Objectives: The goal of the town hall meeting was to survey the community regarding perceived limitations and obstacles associated with current means of (1) estimating […]
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Arctic-COLORS (Arctic-COastal Land Ocean inteRactionS): A Science Plan for a NASA Field Campaign in the Coastal Arctic View or download the PDF Executive Summary Over the past century, average Arctic surface air temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate and this rapid warming trend is expected to continue over the next century. […]
Read MoreBy Nancy Steinberg (OSU) originally published in Terra on February 2, 2018, excerpt reposted with permission. The Pacific Ocean west of Newport is among the most well-studied seas on the planet. It still has secrets to tell. Last Fall, Oregon State’s small research vessel Elakha embarked on an overnight cruise, setting sail under clear fall skies, […]
Read MoreThe Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) are pleased to announce that the POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme for 2018 is now open for applications. The deadline for applications is 9 April 2018. The program is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation system for the […]
Read MoreTravel Funding Available Limited funding to support travel to the 4th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans is available via a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The purpose of the NSF grant is to […]
Read MoreDear Ocean Sciences Professional, The National Science Foundation is seeking applicants for the position of Division Director for Ocean Sciences (OCE) in the Geosciences Directorate. We are using every possible avenue to ensure this vacancy announcement is widely advertised and attracts a very diverse pool of highly qualified candidates. We encourage you to consider this […]
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The new Ocean Training Partnership (OTP) website is now ‘live’ at www.oceantrainingpartnership.org. The OTP is an international alliance of marine science organisations that coordinates shipboard training experiences. The current partners are now inviting institutions with spare capacity on research vessels, or Principal Investigators with spare berths on a planned research cruise, to get involved with […]
Read MoreOCB is pleased to announce the outcomes of the recent OCB proposal solicitation. With 17 proposals, the decision process was especially challenging this year. The proposals were scored based on scientific merit, relevance to OCB, potential benefits to the broader OCB community, and timeliness. The following new OCB activities have been selected for funding in […]
Read MoreEco-DAS XIII October 15-20, 2018, Honolulu, Hawai’i Application Deadline: 1 May, 2018 apply at http://eco-das.org/ The Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences symposium series is designed to: Foster sustained, cross-disciplinary interactions among the top new researchers in ecological oceanography and limnology, to the benefit of both the science and the researchers. Increase the success rate […]
Read More“Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science” Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (25 June – 7 July 2018) The 2018 IOCCG Summer Lecture Series, dedicated to high-level training in the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing will take place at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France from 25 June – 7 July […]
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Contacts: David Siegel (UCSB; EXPORTS Science Lead) & Ivona Cetinić (NASA GSFC/USRA; EXPORTS Project Scientist) EXPORTS in a Nutshell Ocean ecosystems constitute a significant fraction of the world’s primary production, fixing CO2 and creating oxygen while playing critical roles in sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere. An improved understanding of the cycling and fate of […]
Read MoreU.S. and India Science Colloquium: Earth Observations and Sciences for Society and Economy 1. NEW MEETING DATES: June 11-12, 2018; Goa, India As you may recall, the Colloquium was planned around a port call scheduled for the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown in Goa, India, between the US GO-SHIP I7N cruise and the RAMA array service cruise in the Indian Ocean. […]
Read MoreThe Alfred Wegner Institute is delighted to announce its 5th year hosting the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE); providing world class education, training and career development programmes in oceanography. The 10 month training programme will take place on the offshore island of Helgoland and the UNESCO reserve Wadden Sea island of Sylt, Germany. […]
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The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (www.us-ocb.org) will support up to five U.S. students or postdocs to participate in this course, including tuition, travel, and housing expenses. If interested, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest (1 page max) to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by 15 March 2018. The statement should describe your interest in the […]
Read MoreWe would like to thank the OCB community for submitting so many high-quality nominations for the OCB Scientific Steering Committee. We also want to thank the nominees for their willingness to serve, and hope that if you were not elected this year, you will remain interested and willing in future SSC elections. The election results […]
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