n°19 - January 2009

IMBER Meetings

First IMBER IMBIZO (November 2008, Miami, USA)
The presentations from the IMBIZO are now available at http://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1185

Workshop on developing Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) in the UK (January 2009, Plymouth, UK)
Oral presentations are now available at: http://www.imber-uk.org/default.asp?page=presentations

IMBER publication (IMBER Report #2)
ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy has been formally adopted and is now downloadable
http://www.imber.info/products/ICED_Finaltoprint.pdf
You can obtain a hard copy by contacting the IMBER IPO (imber@univ-brest.fr)

IMBER Data Management
The IMBER DMC is developing the “IMBER Cookbook” with simple recipes to guide researchers through data collection and documentation. Please help us to improve the Cookbook by taking a look at the draft version available online at http://planktondata.net/imber/. Please send comments to the IMBER Data Liaison Officer, Sophie.Beauvais@univ-brest.fr by June 2009.

IMBER sponsored Meetings

13-16 July 2009: Ascona, Switzerland
Decadal variations of the Ocean's interior carbon cycle: Synthesis and vulnerabilities
The objective of the symposium is to bring together scientists interested in the ocean carbon cycle in order (i) to synthesize the presently available information about the decadal time-scale variability of the ocean interior carbon cycle, (ii) to assess the processes responsible for these variations, and (iii) to identify processes and regions that might be particularly sensitive to future climate change.
co-conveners: Nicolas Gruber, Arne Körtzinger and Richard A. Feely
Registration for this workshop opens on 1 Feburary 2009
http://www.up.ethz.ch/news/csf_conference

23 October-1 November 2009: Jeju, Korea
PICES Eighteenth Annual Meeting "Understanding ecosystem dynamics and pursuing ecosystem approaches to management"
http://www.pices.int/meetings/All_events_default.aspx#Ann_Meet

News from our endorsed Projects
Biogeosciences released a special issue in November 2008 on the BIogeochemistry and Optics SOuth Pacific Experiment (BIOSOPE). Download the whole BIOSOPE volume (30 papers): http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/proof/php/bio/bg_BIOSOPE_final.pdf
Link to Biogeosciences for downloading individual papers: http://www.biogeosciences.net/special_issue19.html

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IGBP calls for proposals for new Fast Track Initiatives to address cross-cutting questions in Earth System science and gaps in IGBP research. Successful proposals will receive seed funding towards workshops with diverse international participation. Proposals should be submitted no later than 23 February 2009 to the IGBP Secretariat (wendy@igbp.kva.se). More information, guidelines and an application form are attached and available from URL: http://www.igbp.net/documents/IGBP-FTI_application-09.doc

In preparation for the OceanObs'09 meeting (http://www.oceanobs09.net/index.php) in September 2009 (Venice, Italy), organizers have solicited proposals for community white papers (CWP) that address future ocean observing needs. The following link lists the current CWP proposals: http://www.oceanobs09.net/work/cwp_proposals/

Global Carbon Project (GCP) publishes every year an Annual update of the global carbon budget(http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbontrends). GCP is currently trying to improve its budget estimates. Up to now, the CO₂ sink was only based on results from one ocean model. For future budgets, GCP would like to use the average of several model estimates. GCP is looking for groups that would be interested to provide global ocean CO₂ sink results for this effort.
Contact: Corinne Le Quéré (C.Lequere@uea.ac.uk).

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27 May-6 August 2009: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and Beijing, China
Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Research Experience for Undergraduate Marine Science and Engineering Students
Deadline for application: 5 March 2009
http://www.clarkson.edu/projects/reushen/reu_china/

6-7 July, 2009: Corvallis, USA
PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting (YSM): "Retrospective views on our planet's future".
Deadline for application: 16 March 2009
http://www.pages-osm.org/ysm/index.html

8-17 July 2009: University of Hawaii, USA
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (CMORE) summer course titled "Microbial Oceanography: Genomes to Biomes".
Deadline for application: 20 February 2009
http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/agouron/2009/

3-15 August 2009: Corsica, France
4th SOLAS Summer School
Deadline for application: 1 February 2009 // Last week to apply!!!
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/summerschool/

21-25 september 2009: Berlin, Germany
ICES ANNUAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2009: travel funds are available for early-career scientists
Deadline for application: 15 June 2009
http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2009/travelfunds.asp

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Phytoplankton physiology Research Officer, University of Ussex, UK
Deadline for application: 27 February 2009
http://gs12.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_essex01.asp?newms=jj&id=41492

SCRIPPS 2009 Postdoctoral Scholar Program, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, California, USA
Deadline for application: 1 March 2009
http://sio.ucsd.edu/Research/Post_Docs/stc_ad.php

2 Postdoctoral research position in ocean data assimilation, Toulouse, France
Deadline for application: until position is filled
http://www.cerfacs.fr/Open_Positions/liste.php?noeq=4&no=2

Postdoctoral Position Organic Geochemistry/Paleoceanography, University of Concepcion (UDEC), Chile
Deadline for application: until position is filled
http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/Postdoctoral%20Position%20Organic%20Geochemistry.pdf

Science Editor for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline for application: 6 February 2009
http://www.igbp.net/page.php?pid=452

Director of Communications for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline for application: 30 January 2009
http://www.igbp.net/page.php?pid=451

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The Implementation Plan for the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section is now available. This document provides the scientific rationale for the section as well as general guidelines for investigators who wish to participate. http://www.whoi.edu/conference/geotracesAtlantic/

New Portal: Marine Biodiversity WIKI goes live - A marine biodiversity wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and searching through information on marine biodiversity - http://www.marbef.org/wiki

Annual Review of Marine Science - Volume 1 - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/marine/1/1

The OCB Project Office recently co-sponsored an international workshop on ocean biogeochemical time-series at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (November 5-7, 2008). Visit the workshop Web site (http://ioc3.unesco.org/ioccp/Time%20series/ChangingTimes.html) to download talks and other information from the workshop.

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26-30 April: Bonn, Germany
7th International Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - IHDP Open Meeting 2009
Early Bird Registration ends: 31 January 2009
http://www.openmeeting2009.org/

28-30 April: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, CA, USA
Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Scoping Workshop: "Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders"
Deadline for registration: 1 March 2009
http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=30232

20-24 May: Washington D.C, USA
International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC)
Deadline for early regsitration: 15 February 2009
http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/imcc/index.html?CFID=229883&CFTOKEN=73282822

22-23 June: Victoria, BC, Canada
Workshop on comparison of sub-arctic and antarctic marine ecosystems
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2009
https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1345&nid=9839

22-26 June: Victoria, BC, Canada
3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2009 // Last week to submit an abstract!!
https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1345&nid=9839

6-17 July: Plymouth, UK
Marine Phytoplankton Taxonomy Workshop
http://www.mba.ac.uk/phytoplanktonworkshop/

8-11 July: Corvallis, USA
PAGES 3rd Open Science Meeting
Deadline for abstract submission: 16 March 2009
http://www.pages-osm.org/

13-16 July: Ascona, Switzerland / IMBER sponsored Meeting!
Decadal variations of the Ocean's interior carbon cycle: Synthesis and vulnerabilities
Chair: Nicolas Gruber
Registration for this workshop opens on 1 Feburary 2009
http://www.up.ethz.ch/news/csf_conference

13-17 July: Cairn, Australia  
MODSIM09 conference
Session I10. Integration of Remotely Sensed and In-Situ Observations into Hydrologic Modelling
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2009
http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/WCMT/

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

24-28 August: Melbourne, Australia
iLEAPS Science Conference 2009
Deadline for deadline for abstract submission: 15 March 2009
http://www.ileaps.org/

31 August-4 September: Geneva, Switzerland
World Climate Conference
Early registration: 30 April 2009
http://www.wmo.int/pages/world_climate_conference/index_en.html

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