New IMBER Scientific Steering Committee members
After several years of dedicated service, Carina Lange, Carol Turley, Dennis Hansell, Patrick Monfray and Raymond Pollard have rotated off the IMBER SSC. We thank them for their valuable contributions over the years. Joining the SSC this year are 5 new members: Carol Robinson (UK), Javier Aristegui (Spain), Jean-Pierre Gattuso (France), Nicolas Gruber (Switzerland) and Silvio Pantoja (Chile).
More details: http://www.imber.info/SSC2008.html
2-7 March 2008: IMBER Town Hall Meeting during ASLO Meeting (Orlando, FL, USA) Discover the status and opportunities of the IMBER project, and meet with members of the project Scientific Steering Committee, at a town hall meeting during the ASLO/Ocean Sciences meeting in Orlando, FL (March 2-7, 2008).
The IMBER meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 3th, noon to 1:30 PM, in room W101.
Organizers: Dennis Hansell (dhansell@rsmas.miami.edu) and Mike Roman (roman@hpl.umces.edu).
Further information at: http://www.aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/town_hall.html
21-24 April 2008: CLIMECO training workshop (Brest, France) Climate driving of marine ecosystem changes: Training for young marine scientists.
Registration are closed. We have received 188 applications. The organising committee will select 30 candidates to attend the workshop. Notification of acceptance will be sent early February 2008. http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html
5-6 May 2008: IMBER project will be holding its annual Scientific Steering Committee Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa in cunjunction with the 4th IGBP Congress. Further information at: http://igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=55.
10-13 November 2008: 1st IMBER IMBIZO* “Biogeochemical and ecosystems interactions in a changing ocean” (Miami, USA). Registrations open soon. Further information at: http://www.imber.info/IMBIZO.html
*IMBIZO (Zulu word for meeting or gathering)
Next IMBER sponsored Meetings:
2-6 June 2008: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems: integrative and comparative approaches http://www.upwelling-symposium.org/
Session 008Decadal Variations in Ocean Interior Circulation, Water Masses, and Biogeochemistry - Results From The CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program
Conveners: Feely R. ,Talley L., Wanninkhof R.
NSF Program Solicitation - NSF 08-535 Antarctic Research Aeronomy & Astrophysics, Organisms and Ecosystems, Earth Sciences, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Glaciology, Integrated System Science
Deadline for application: May 2, 2008
Further information at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08535/nsf08535.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
NSF Program solicitation - NSF 08-509 "Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Deadline for application: March 3, 2008 Further information at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08509/nsf08509.htm
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) program is soliciting your input toward a workshop to promote Integrated Study of Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes and Exchanges in the Gulf of Mexico. The OCB has identified Coastal Carbon Fluxes as one of its research priorities for 2008, and will sponsor a science scoping workshop to be held May 6-8, 2008 in St. Petersburg, FL. The meeting will be co-hosted by the USGS Florida Integrated Science Center St Petersburg and the College of Marine Science of the University of South Florida.
Deadline for application: April 1, 2008
Further information at: http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/ocb_call_jan08.pdf
EuroSITES to integrate deep ocean observatories
An EU grant of 3.5 million Euros has been awarded to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to integrate Europe’s deep ocean observatories - which provide important information about the role the oceans play in climate change - into a coherent network.
Deadline for application: March 3, 2008
2008 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations. This program is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation scheme for the oceans.
Further Information at: http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm
Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Summer 2008 - NSF REU Site Summer Fellowships in Biogeochemistry and Climate Change at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Deadline for application: February 1, 2008
Further Information at: http://www.ess.uci.edu/~jkmoore/ucireuhomepage.htm
2 June-11 July 2008: Hawaii, USA
2008 Summer Course on Microbial Oceanography: Genomes to Biomes
Deadline for application: February 11, 2008
Further Information at: http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/agouron/index.htm
2 June-29 August 2008: Laxenburg, Austria
Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
Deadline for application: January 25, 2008
Further Information at: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/index.html?sb=1
5-10 October 2008: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DISCO XXI: Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
Deadline for application: June 13, 2008
Further Information at: http://www.discosymposium.org/
Oceanopgrapher/Studies in ocean color calibration and validation activities in optically complex waters, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA.
Deadline for application: until position is filled http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/job_CVO.pdf
Post-Doctoral Position available at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany. Topic: Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron and Phosphate under low Oxygen Conditions.
Deadline for application: until position is filled http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/2008DFG-SFB754Croot-PostdocPosition.pdf
PhD Position available at the Leibniz Institut für Meereswissenschaften in Kiel (IfM-Geomar), Germany. Topic: “Nanoparticles, Colloids and their relationship to Titanium, Aluminium and Iron solubility in the Open Ocean” .
Deadline for application: March 1, 2008 http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/2008DFG-Croot-PhDposition.pdf
Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Coastal Ecosystems and Human Health, University of Connecticut, USA.
Deadline for application: March 1, 2008 http://www.i-rich.uconn.edu/postdoc.html
IPCC CLIMATE CHANGE 2007: The Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's 4th Assessment Report is available at http://www.ipcc.ch/#
New article: As part of the follow-on to the Ocean Iron Fertilization Symposium held this past fall in Woods Hole, a policy forum article was published in Science magazine: Buesseler, K.O., S.C. Doney, D.M. Karl, P.W. Boyd, K. Caldeira, F. Chai, K. Coale, H.J.W. de Baar, P.G. Falkowski, K.S. Johnson, R.S. Lampitt, A.F. Michaels, S.W.A. Naqvi, V. Smetacek, S. Takeda, and A.J. Watson, 2008: Ocean iron fertilization: moving forward in a sea of uncertainty, Science, 319, 162, doi: 10.1126/science.1154305. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/319/5860/162
2008 Meetings / Conferences / Workshops
2-7 March: Orlando, Florida, USA
The 14th Ocean Sciences Meeting (Joint with ASLO, ERF, TOS and AGU): From the Watershed to the Global Ocean. http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/
8-11 April: Hyytiälä, Finland
iLEAPS-ICOS-NitroEurope workshop on “Eddy covariance flux measurement of CH4 and N2O exchanges” http://www.workshopec2008.org/
8-11 July: FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy International Symposium“Coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems” http://www.peopleandfish.org / IMBER sponsored Meeting!
8-11 July: St. Petersburg, Russia Polar Research: Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/
