2017 Fall AGU Meeting View OCB-relevant sessions at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting December 11-15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting View OCB-relevant sessions for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting February 11-16, 2018 in Portland, OR (abstract submission deadline: September 6, 2017). If you would like to add sessions to these lists, please send us an email.
Read MoreWe are currently seeking Review Editors for the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2). The deadline for nominations is July 30. Please share this widely among your networks. Please see the instructions and a note with additional details from Dr. Nancy Cavallaro (USDA NIFA National Program Leader and CCIWG co-Chair) below. Thank you. […]
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Save the date: The 2018 OCB Summer Workshop will be held June 25-28, 2018 in Woods Hole, MA (#OCB2018). All slides and webcast footage from the 2017 OCB Summer Workshop now available here. If you attended OCB 2017 and would like to have your poster archived in online poster gallery, please submit a PDF of your poster to the OCB Project Office. […]
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Ocean Optics 2017 training course entitled “Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing“
The Ocean Optics 2017 training course entitled “Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing“ is starting this week at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (10 July – 4 August 2017). As the course progresses, the powerpoint presentations from all the lectures plus the recordings and the lab’s printed materials will be posted […]
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PBS series “Changing Seas” joined a BATS cruise during January 2017 to film an episode that introduces the biological and solubility pumps (featuring BIOS’s Nick Bates, Rod Johnson and Amy Mass, and Dennis Hansell). Watch on YouTube
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OCB supported early career participation in Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing class in June 2017. Nicole (Nikki) DeLuca is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Benjamin Zaitchik. Her work focuses on using ocean color remote sensing in coastal and inland waters, including the Chesapeake […]
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In 2015, the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry science communities kicked off an effort to revisit, evolve, and revise the 2007 NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program’s Advanced Plan entitled Earth’s Living Ocean: the Unseen World. The revised draft Advance Plan covers the next decade (2017-2027) of community research and technology ideas, and is now ready for community […]
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The Council for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) held a meeting in Rome, Italy from April 26-28, 2017, which was hosted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and chaired by Dr. George Watters (USA), Mr. Alistair Dunn (NZ), and Dr. Marino Vacchi (IT). Representatives from Argentina, Chile, China, […]
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The #GreatAntarcticClimateHack will be held October 9-12, 2017 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Forum, La Jolla, CA. Our first-ever Climate Hack will focus on bringing Antarctic and Southern Ocean observations to bear on evaluating the latest generation of climate and earth system models, producing new climate model metrics for the 21st century. #GreatAntarcticClimateHack is a workshop to […]
Read MoreGlobal and Coastal Ocean Satellite Data Products from Revised Website at NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch The NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch Program and the Central Operations team at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR, the research and development arm of the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)) are pleased to share the news of the […]
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A recent workshop co-sponsored by US CLIVAR, OCB, NOAA, PICES, and ICES, Forecasting ENSO impacts on marine ecosystems of the US West Coast, attempted to develop a framework for using ENSO forecasts from climate and statistical models in order to predict changes in key components of the marine ecosystem in the California Current System. Click […]
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The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (www.us-ocb.org) will support 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 2017. The statement should describe […]
Read MoreAn OCB topical subcommittee focused on Biogeochemical-Argo – PIs: Ken Johnson (MBARI), Emmanuel Boss (Univ. Maine) Objective: This committee will serve as a focal point for US community input on the implementation of the global biogeochemical float array and associated science program development. This committee will also engage with and provide US input to the […]
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Submit proposals on carbon export and the biological pump to NASA and NSF in February. NASA Deadlines: Amended January 12, 2016. This amendment releases final text for A.3 Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry program, which had previously been listed as To Be Determined (TBD) in ROSES-2016. This program accepts proposals by a two-step process, in which […]
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Mark your calendar for OCB 2017 June 26-29, 2017 (Woods Hole, MA). Registration will open in Spring 2017. View the 2016 Workshop archive here. This year’s plenary sessions will be as follows: Ecological and biogeochemical impacts of natural climate perturbations (organizer: Andrew Barton) Stoichiometry and higher trophic levels (organizers: Debbie Steinberg and Mike Roman) Our autonomous […]
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