n°10 - February 2008

3 March 2008: IMBER Town Hall Meeting during ASLO Meeting (Orlando, FL, USA)
The IMBER meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 3rd, noon to 1:30 PM, in room W101.
Organizers: Dennis Hansell (dhansell@rsmas.miami.edu) and Mike Roman (roman@hpl.umces.edu).

21-24 April 2008: Climate driving of marine ecosystem changes (CLIMECO)…Training for young marine scientists (Brest, France). We received 190 applications from young marine scientists. The final list of the 30 selected candidates shows gender balance (19 females and 11 males) as well as geographical balance, all continents being represented (11 Europeans, 12 Americans, 3 South Africans, 2 South Americans, 1 Japanese and 1 Australian ). 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. http://igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=55

August 2008: IMBER/EUR-OCEANS Summer School
Analyses of the interactions between end-to-end marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Objective: introduce participants to recent research focus on the interactions of end to end marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles in various oceanic systems. Leader: Temel Oguz (oguz@ims.metu.edu.tr).
More information to come.

10-13 November 2008: 1^st IMBER IMBIZO “Biogeochemical and ecosystems interactions in a changing ocean” (Miami, USA). We encourage you to submit your abstract for one of the following workshops:

• Ecological and Biogeochemical Interactions in End to End Food Webs
  (co-chaired by Coleen Moloney and Michael Roman)
• Ecological and Biogeochemical Interactions in the Mesopelagic Zone
  (co-chaired by Debbie Steinberg and Hiroaki Saito)
• Biogeochemistry and Microbial Dynamics in the Bathypelagic Zone
  (co-chaired by Dennis Hansell and Gerhard Herndl)

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2008. Further information at: http://www.imber.info/IMBIZO.html
The IMBER IMBIZO will also provide an opportunity for junior and senior scientists to participate in a half-day interactive workshop entitled "BEER: The secret to a successful project" (https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1185&nid=9105).

WOCE Hydrography Manual to be updated
Earlier this year, the IOCCP, CLIVAR, and the joint SOLAS-IMBER Carbon Coordination Group formed the Global Ocean Ship-based Repeat Hydrographic Investigations Panel (GO_SHIP) to develop a strategy for a sustained program of interdisciplinary repeat hydrography, post-CLIVAR. One of the Terms of Reference of the Panel is to review and provide guidance on the need to update the WOCE hydrographic manual (1994), including a review and update of data quality control issues.
The WOCE hydrographic manual chapters are available on-line at CCHDO (http://whpo.ucsd.edu/manuals.htm). Information about GO_SHIP is available on the IOCCP site (http://www.ioccp.org/ > hydrography > International Advisory Group). Any questions or comments about this activity should be sent to Maria Hood at m.hood@unesco.org.

Next IMBER sponsored Meetings:

19-23 May: Gijon, Spain
ICES/PICES/IOC Symposium: Effects of climate change on the world's oceans
http://www.pices.int/meetings/international_symposia/2008_symposia/Climate_change/climate_background_3.aspx

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/

8-11 July 2008: FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
International Symposium “Coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems”.
http://www.peopleandfish.org

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Improved seawater thermodynamics: How should the proposed change in salinity be implemented? The SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 127 on Thermodynamics and Equation of State of Seawater (http://www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg127.htm) seeks comments from the oceanographic community on the adoption of a new salinity standard. Please send comments directly to Trevor McDougall, preferably by 29 February 2008.
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/salinity_SCOR_IAPSO.pdf

Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO).
NOAA and NSF will solicit proposals to initiate CAMEO research, with future funding depending on Congressional budget appropriations for FY 2009 and beyond.  A detailed program plan will emerge to focus research at later stages of CAMEO.
http://cameo.noaa.gov/

New European project : MEECE funded to increase ecosystem modelling predictive capabilities
MEECE (Marine Ecosystem Evolution in a Changing Environment) is an FP7 Large Scale Integrated Project (IP) funded under ‘Dynamic of marine ecosystem in a changing environment’ topic, and a direct output of EUR-OCEANS PIs collaboration.
http://www.meece.eu/

Survey Request: Earth Observation Data Integration and Analysis Product "JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)" is developing the technologies for the practical application of the Earth observation data under "DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System, http://www.diasjp.org/ (in Japanese))" which is a part of Japanese national science project.
Now JAMSTEC provides the sample data and sends out questionnaires so as to improve the data product and the way to provide the data. The online survey and the sample data are found at: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/medid/dias/index.html

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5 June - 25 August 2008: Summer Research Opportunity in Northern Alaska Toolik Lake, Long Term Ecological Research
Undergraduates or college graduates interested in ecological research in remote Alaska are invited to apply for paid positions and research fellowships for Summer 2008.
http://www.uaf.edu/toolik/

5-10 October 2008: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DISCO XXI: Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
Deadline for application: June 13, 2008
http://www.discosymposium.org/

2-8 November, 2008: Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ, USA
DISCCRS IV Symposium
Application Deadline: April 30, 2008 
http://www.disccrs.org/index.html

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

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Research Fellow (PhD position) in Marine Biogeochemistry and Modelling, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR)/Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway.
Deadline for application: March 4, 2008.
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/PhD_%20BCCR_Bellerby.pdf

Programme Fellow for Scientific Affairs
Deadline for application: Friday 29, 2008.
http://www.apn-gcr.org/en/Vacancy%20Announcement.htm

Postdoctoral Fellow in carbon cycle modelling, University of Bergen, Norway.
Deadline for application: March 7, 2008.
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/geoscience/bergen8021.html

PhD-Position in the research project “Interannual variability of lithogenic fluxes in the subtropical Northeast Atlantic", Warnmunde, Germany.
Deadline for application: March 15, 2008.
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=684

Postdoctoral research associate in fisheries ecology, National Institute of Aquatic Resources at the Technical University of Denmark.
Deadline for application: Februray 25, 2008
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=681

Postdoctoral Position in Atmospheric Measurements, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA.
Deadline for application: until position is filled
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/post-doc_SCRIPPS.pdf

PostDoc in Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Interactions, Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, ME, USA.
Deadline for application: March 1, 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/Matrai%20VOCALS%20PostDoc%20Ad3-Update.pdf

Post-doc: Coupling of the biogeochemical Eco3M model with a 3-D hydrodynamical model (MARS-3D) of the Golfe du Lion in the North-western Mediterranean, Marseille, France.
Deadline for application: April 30, 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/LOB_postdoc.pdf

Post-doc: Biogeochemical modeling of marine sediments, Brussels, Belgium.
Deadline for application: April 1, 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/Postdoc%20EN%2002.pdf

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) report from the Bremen meeting is now available to download from the SOOS website at: http://www.clivar.org/organization/southern/expertgroup/SOOS_interim_report.pdf

The Global Carbon Project has just published a new analysis of the state of the carbon cycle and its immediate drivers of perturbation (economic growth, carbon intensity of the global economy, and natural CO₂ sinks on land and oceans).
You can download the paper and a ppt file with i) additional carbon trends, and ii) the global carbon budget to 2006 from:
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/activities/AcceleratingAtmosphericCO2.htm

SESAME: Integrated Project supported by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems.
SESAME aims to assess and predict changes in the Southern European Seas (Mediterranean and Black Sea) ecosystems and in their ability to provide key goods and services with high societal importance, such as tourism, fisheries, ecosystem biodiversity and mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration in water and sediments.
http://www.sesame-ip.eu/scientist/about-sesame

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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/
- Town Hall from National Oceanographic Data Center: An Ocean of Data on your Desktop March 5, 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm W103
Contact: margarita.gregg@noaa.gov
- Town Hall on ocean acidification: Ocean Acidification: Towards an Interagency Approach is being held Tuesday March 4, 2008 from 7:30 to 9:30 in Rm W108. For more information contact Libby.Jewett@noaa.gov
Further information at http://aslo.org/orlando2008/town_hall.html

31 March - 4 April: Warnemünde, Germany
OceanSensors08
http://www.oceansensors08.org/

3 April: Plymouth, UK
Marine Plankton: From Cells to Ecosystems
A celebration of the Scientific career of Professor Patrick M. Holligan
http://www.holligan-fest.org/

4-9 May: Cape Town, South Africa
4th IGBP Congress: Sustainable Livelihood in a Changing Earth System
http://www.igbp.net/page.php?pid=143&year=2008&month=5

14-16 May: Göteborg, Sweden
Workshop: Iron biogeochemistry across marine systems at changing times
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=620

21-25 May: Sabah, Malyasia
7th IOC/WESTPAC International Science Symposium: 'Natural Hazards and changing Marine Environment in the Western Pacific'
Enquiries to taupek@mosti.gov.my

28-30 May: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Controls on organic carbon export and twilight zone mineralization / EUr-Oceans WP5 Workshop
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=677

8-13 June: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
2008 ASLO Summer Meeting: Interactions on the Edge
http://www.aslo.org/meetings/stjohns2008/index.html

SS10. Influence of Coupling of Microbial and Metazoan Food Webs on Fluxes of Organic Material: Spatial and Temporal Scales and Variability
Organizers: Richard B. Rivkin (rrivkin@mun.ca), Louis Legendre (legendre@obs-vlfr.fr)

SS34. Impacts of Climate Warming on Polar Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Organizers: Carlos M. Duarte (carlosduarte@ifisc.uib.es), Susana Agusti (sagusti@uib.es)

SS36. Biologically-mediated air-sea interactions in Northern oceans
Organizers: Michael Scarratt (ScarrattM@dfo-mpo.gc.ca), Maurice Levasseur (maurice.levasseur@bio.ulaval.ca), Richard Rivkin (rrivkin@mun.ca)

List of sessions: http://aslo.org/meetings/stjohns2008/sessions.html

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/

26-19 August: Galway, Ireland
ICES Symposium on Herring: Linking biology, ecology, and status of populations in a changing environment  
http://www.linkingherring.com/

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