n°16 - September 2008

GLOBEC-IMBER Transition Task Team: The GLOBEC-IMBER Transition Task Team was formed to facilitate the transition to a single ocean research projected in the IGBP structure after 2009. The Task Team met for the first time in Reading, UK in July 2008 to begin drafting a supplement to the IMBER Science Plan to define additional science to be tackled by IMBER following the conclusion of GLOBEC.
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/IMBER_GLOBEC_TTT.pdf

IMBER/SOLAS session (#047): Biogeochemistry and physical dynamics of coastal upwelling regions at ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting (25-31 January 2009, Nice, France)
Co-Chairs: Carol Robinson (carol.robinson@uea.ac.uk), Des Barton (e.d.barton@iim.csic.es) Doug Wallace (dwallace@ifm-geomar.de)
http://www.aslo.org/meetings/nice2009/topical_sessions.html

9 November 2008: Miami, USA
The IMBER IMBIZO Meeting will provide an opportunity for junior and senior scientists to participate in a half-day interactive workshop entitled "BEER*: The secret to a successful project".
Co-conveners: Raymond Pollard and Todd O'Brien
https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1185&nid=9105
(*Being Efficient and Environmentally Responsible)

Report published: Air-sea CO₂ flux from satellite and Argo data
Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger, 2008: The CO₂ air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/gcc/co2research/datareports/Lueger&al_TechMemo.pdf

SOCAT-II Meeting Report Released
The Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT) project is developing a common format dataset of all publicly available surface CO₂ data. This compilation currently includes data from more than 10 countries, producing an initial database composed of more than 1250 cruises from 1968 to 2007 with approximately 4.5 million measurements of various carbon parameters. The 2nd level quality-controlled dataset will be published in late 2009, and will be made available through Live-Access Server. The project will also develop a gridded product of monthly surface water fCO₂ means on a 1° x 1° grid with no temporal or spatial interpolation using the 2nd level quality-controlled global surface ocean fCO₂ data set.
In June of this year, the IOCCP, along with CarboOcean and the SOLAS-IMBER Joint Carbon Group, held a 2nd technical meeting to discuss 2nd level QC and regional synthesis issues. Report from the meeting: http://www.imber.info/C_WG/SOCAT2_Final-1.pdf

Reminders:

6-9 October 2008: Monaco
The IMBER SIC! Sub Group 3 will hold a Town Hall Meeting during the "Ocean in a High CO₂ Symposium" http://www.ocean-acidification.net/

7-8 November 2008: Miami, USA
2008 IMBER Executive Meeting: The next Joint IMBER/GLOBEC Executive Meeting is being planned in Miami prior to the IMBER IMBIZO.

9-13 November 2008: Miami, USA
IMBER IMBIZO 2008 (http://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1185)

23 October-2 November 2008: Dalian, PR China
PICES Annual Meeting: Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE
Special session co-sponsored by IMBER: End-to-end food webs: Impacts of a changing ocean
http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES17/scientific_program.aspx?session=S9#S9
Full information at http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES17/background.aspx

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Invitation to join NACP Interim Coastal Synthesis Activity. The objective of this activity is to stimulate the synthesis and publication of recent observational and modeling results on carbon cycle fluxes and processes along the North American continental margin. We invite you to visit the NACP website (http://www.nacarbon.org/cgi-bin/working_groups/wg.pl) and join a coastal synthesis activity. Click on the email list link for your region of interest, and you will be prompted to enter your email address and set up a password. Regional leads will initiate contact with their regional groups via these emails lists very soon.

Call for abstracts
18-23 January 2009: Tromso, Norway
Arctic Frontiers 2009 The Age of the Arctic
Deadline for submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations: October 15, 2008
http://www.arctic-frontiers.com/

Call for abstracts
25-31 January 2009: Nice, France
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting A Cruise Through Nice Waters (http://www.aslo.org/meetings/nice2009/)
The 117 topical and general sessions cover a very large range of topics and disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is 3 October. Co-chairs: Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Markus Weinbauer and Peter Bossard
List of topical sessions: http://www.aslo.org/meetings/nice2009/topical_sessions.html

Call for abstracts
2-6 March 2009: Papeete, Tahiti
Julie Cole and Jean-Pierre Gattuso will co-chair session 2 on "Climate change and ocean acidification" at the 11th Pacific Science Inter-Congress. Closing date for abstract submission: 30 September 2008. http://www.psi2009.pf/spip.php?rubrique_home=16

Seeking nominations for new OCB-SSC members - deadline: October 3, 2008
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office is currently seeking nominations for membership on the OCB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). The OCB SSC was established in February 2006, and was created jointly by NSF, NASA and NOAA to promote, plan, and coordinate collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities related to carbon cycling and associated marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem processes. For more information on OCB and its current SSC, please visit www.us-ocb.org/about. SSC members serve a term of 3 years. If you wish to nominate someone, you can contact the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu). Please include nominee's name, affiliation, expertise, contact information, and a brief description of what/how the nominee would contribute to OCB planning and implementation. Please submit nominations by October 3, 2008.

Bottle files including extensive DOC (and some DON) data generated by Dennis Hansell and Craig Carlson since the mid 1990's (JGOFS and WOCE) and through the present (CLIVAR) are accessible at http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/biogeochem/Data.html
If you have DOM data that you wish to make publicly available through this collection, please contact Dennis Hansell (dhansell@rsmas.miami.edu) or Craig Carlson (carlson@lifesci.ucsb.edu).

Send your OCB Projects
OCB is in the process of updating and expanding the OCB Projects page of the website (http://www.us-ocb.org/projects/index.html). If you have ongoing or new OCB-relevant projects that you would like to include on OCB website, please send the following to Heather Benway (hbenway@whoi.edu):
1) Project title 2) PI(s) and contact information for lead PI(s) 3) Funding source(s) 4) Project description (Link to a website or abstract if available).

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Full travel grants to Arctic Science planning meetings of your choice – New Research Generation (NRG) - An Initiative of the the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB), in collaboration with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), is pleased to announce its second call for applications from early career scientists to support their involvement in international arctic marine planning meetings. Applications for travel support to attend an international science planning meeting should be sent to AOSB secretariat NRG_application@aosb.org by 15 October 2008. Please put “NRG application” in the subject line. http://www.aosb.org/programs.html#nrg

Cool Climate Jobs: New online resource for jobs in climate change, renewable energy, and other green collar industries. http://www.coolclimatejobs.com/

Announcement of opportunity for graduates to participate in hydrographic cruises run by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton as a chemical oceanographer involved in measuring inorganic nutrients/titrating dissolved oxygen samples. Modest additional sampling can probably be entertained. Cruises are scheduled for the Arctic gateway, Canada ­ Greenland ­ UK (Summer 2008); Andrex Southern Ocean (Early 2009); Drake Passage, Southern Ocean (Early 2009); 25°S in the Atlantic (Easter 2009) and 24°N in the Atlantic (November 2009). For more information, please contact Richard Saunders (rics@noc.soton.ac.uk).

7-17 July, 2009: Washington, USA
JCSDA Summer Colloquium on Data Assimilation
The NASA/NOAA/DoD Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) is pleased to announce a Summer Colloquium on Data Assimilation in 2009 engaging graduate students and individuals with early postdoctoral appointments in the science of data assimilation for the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The program will include lectures by internationally recognized experts in data assimilation and an opportunity for students to interact with the lecturers in an informal setting. The objective of the program is to foster the education of the next generation of data assimilation scientists.
Deadline for application: December 1, 2008
http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/meetings_2009SummerColloq.php

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Job vacancies at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)
1- Researcher in Marine Zooplankton Ecology http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*5603C0F86A3D5ADC
2- Researcher in Deep-Sea Molecular Ecology http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*2753057D0B22FFE4
Deadline for application: Oct 10, 2008

ARCUS (Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.) Executive Director, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Deadline for application: Sept 30, 2008
http://www.arcus.org/arcus/jobs_ed.html

Six full-time positions as Professor in the rank of (senior) lecturer with a focus on scientific research, Ghent University, Belgium.
Deadline for application: Nov 7, 2008
http://www.academicjobseu.com/content/jobsearch/job_advert.asp?id=J6007&printab

Post-doctoral research in chemical sensor development and ocean carbon cycle studies in the Department of Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT (USA).
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/post_doc_UM.pdf

Post-doc Position on the conception and validation of differential equation models of photosynthesis and calcification by calcifying species of phytoplankton, LOV (Villefranche sur mer - France)
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/post_doc_vlfr.pdf

Postdoctoral research associate in the field of Organic Geochemistry/Paleoceanography, School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, USA.
http://faculty.washington.edu/aingalls/Postdoc_ad.htm

Postdoctoral Investigator - Biological-physical coupled modeling, Marine food-web modeling, Zooplankton population dynamics modeling using concentration- and individual-based models, WHOI, USA.
http://www.candidatemanager.net/CM/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=EVUDWYF&site=Scientific

Postdoctoral Investigator - Ocean and Atmosphere Carbon Cycle Dynamics Data Analysis and Modeling, WHOI, USA.
http://www.candidatemanager.net/CM/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=EVUYFWY&site=Scientific

Postdoctoral Investigator - Marine Microbial Ecological Modeling (multiple openings), WHOI, USA.
http://www.candidatemanager.net/CM/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=EVUYEVGTF&site=Scientific

PhD Fellowships "Marine Climate and Ecosystem Around the Faroes", The Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline for application: Sept 26, 2008
http://fi.dk/site/english/apply-for-funding/calls/calls-2008/call-for-applications-four-phd-fellowships-in-the-marine-cli

Director, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, Paris, France
Deadline for application: Sept 30, 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/IOCCP_Director.pdf

Assistant Professor in Marine Organic Geochemistry, University of South Carolina, USA.
Deadline for application: Dec 1, 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/assistant_prof_univ_South_Carolina.pdf

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New book: Watersheds, Bays and Bounded Seas The Science and Management of Semi-Enclosed Marine Systems, Edited by Edward R. Urban, Jr., Bjørn Sundby, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, and Jerry M. Melillo, Marine Science October 2008
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/WatershedsBaysBoundedSeas.pdf

A new release of an Introductory Global CO₂ Model is now available. The model is intended to quantitatively introduce the CO₂ problem at a basic level, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification. The model is available as a set of Matlab routines on a CD, with related documentation, through a request to wes1@lehigh.edu.

A Theme Section on ocean iron fertilization is published on line by the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v364/

Methane Formation in the Oceans: New Pathway Discovered
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111899&govDel=USNSF_1

The PowerPoint and Video files from the OCB 2008 Summer Workshop have now been added to the web page
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=24975.

The Takahashi Annual Flux Gridded Database with spatial resolution of 4° (latitude) X 5° (longitude) is now available for public use through CDIAC Global Surface pCO₂ (LDEO) Database (Version 1.0)
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/LDEO_Underway_Database/LDEO_home.html

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15 Dec 2008- 30 Jan 2009: Concepcion, Chile
Austral Summer Institute IX
ASI IX will be devoted to Coastal Processes and Environmental Problems
Deadline for application: 28 Sept 2008
http://www2.udec.cl/oceanoudec/oceanografia/

19-20 Jan 2009: Tromsoe, Norway
Arctic Frontiers conference: The Age of the Arctic
http://www.arctic-frontiers.com/

9-13 Feb 2009: Melbourne, Australia
9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (9ICSHMO)
http://www.bom.gov.au/events/9icshmo/

17-20 Feb 2009: San Diego, USA
All-Investigators meeting for the North American Carbon Program
http://www.nacarbon.org/meeting_2009/

2-6 Mar 2009: Tahiti, French Polynesia
The 11th Pacific Science Intercongress: “Pacific countries and their ocean facing local and global changes”
http://www.pacificscience.org/congress2009.html

4-8 May 2009: Liege, Belgium.
41st International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics Science-based management of the coastal waters
http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/

22-26 Jun 2009: Victoria, BC, Canada.
3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting
https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1345&nid=10019

8-11 Jul 2009: Corvallis, USA.
PAGES 3rd Open Science Meeting
http://www.pages-osm.org/
A PAGES Young Scientists Meeting will be held alongside the OSM from 6 - 7 July 2009

19-23 Jul 2009: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Coastal Zone 2009: Revolutionary Times: Catching the Wave of Change
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cz/

24-28 Aug 2009: Melbourne, Australia
iLEAPS Science Conference 2009
Deadline for session proposal: June 24, 2008
http://www.ileaps.org/

31 Aug-4 Sept 2009: Geneva, Switzerland
World Climate Conference
http://www.wmo.int/pages/world_climate_conference/index_en.html

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