n°46 - December 2011

IMBER news

2^nd ICES/PICES/IOC International Symposium (15-19 May 2012, Yeosu, Korea): Registration and abstract submission

Second international symposium on "Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans" (co-sponsored by IMBER)

ESSAS and ICED workshop on "Effects of climate change on advective fluxes in high latitude regions" (W4, 14 May 2012)

Early registration and abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2011

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Welcome to two new endorsed projects!

• The "Coastal Ocean MIcrobial Plankton and Temperature" (COMITE) project has been endorsed by IMBER. Leader: Xosé Anxelu G. Moran, Centro Oceanografico de Gijon/Xixon, IEO, Spain. More info...

• Also endorsed by IMBER - "Changes in carbon uptake and emissions by oceans in a changing climate" (CARBOCHANGE). Leader: Christoph Heinze, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. More info...

5^th China-Japan-Korea IMBER Symposium and Training Course (22-25 November 2011, Shanghai, China)

The photos from this symposium are available online now. To view these, please, contact IMBER RPO at imber@ecnu.edu.cn

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Figure 1: Participants of the 5^th China-Japan-Korea (CJK) IMBER Symposium and Training.

EUR-OCEANS Conference:

Ocean deoxygenation and implications for marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems

(24-26 Oct. 2011, Toulouse, France): Report available

(Conference sponsored by IMBER)

The conference was a great success, attended by more than 90 scientists from 19 countries. The organizers received extremely positive feedback from the participants (several of them said that it was the best conference they had attended in years!). Download the report OceanDeoxygenationConfREPORT.pdf 166.68 kB More info...

Publications

Gruber et al. (2011). Eddy-induced reduction of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems. Nature Geoscience. DOI: 10,1038/NGEO1273.  More info.... Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change (2011). Johann Bell, Johanna Johnson and Alistair Hobday (Eds.). Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) book.  More info... Mackey et al. (2011). Antarctic macrozooplankton of the southwest Atlantic sector and Bellingshausen Sea: Baseline historical distributions (Discovery Investigations, 1928–1935) related to temperature and food, with projections for subsequent ocean warming. Deep-Sea Research II. In press. Anthony et al. (2011). Coral reefs modify their seawater carbon chemistry – implications for impacts of ocean acidification. Global Change Biology. 17:3655–3666.  More info... Kleypas et al. (2011). Coral reefs modify their seawater carbon chemistry – case study from a barrier reef (Moorea, French Polynesia). Global Change Biology. 17:3667–3678.   More info... Fiorini et al. (2012). Testing the effects of elevated pCO2 on coccolithophores (Prymnesiophyceae): comparison between haploid and diploid life stages. Journal of Phycology. In press. . More info.... Thomalla et al. (2011). Regional scale characteristics of the seasonal cycle of chlorophyll in the Southern Ocean. Biogeosciences Discussion. 8:4763-4804.  More info... Joubert et al. (2011). Nitrogen uptake by phytoplankton in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during late austral summer. Biogeosciences Open Discussion, 8:4917-4952.More info... Thomalla et al. (2011). Phytoplankton distribution and nitrogen dynamics in the Southwest Indian subtropical gyre and Southern Ocean Waters. Ocean Science. 7:113-127. More info...

Funding and collaborative opportunities

• 2012 POGO-SCOR fellowships. Deadline for applications: 15 January 2012. More info...

• PAGES OCEAN2k is looking for volunteers to assist in assembling a metadatabase of marine paleodata for the past 2000 years from publicly archived databases. Deadline for applications: January 2012. More info...

• NCCOS/CSCOR's Regional Ecosystem Prediction Program. Funding opportunity n° NOAA-NOS-NCCOS-2012-2003178. Deadline for applications: 30 January 2012. More info...

• The EC funded large integrated research project EURO-BASIN is looking for potential collaborating research teams to study nutrient cycling and microzooplankton grazing during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom. Deadline for applications: 15 December 2011. More info...

• Data request for GLODAPv2. Deadline for applications: mid-February 2012.
  GLODAPv2 enews46.pdf 49.87 kB

Early career scientist opportunities

The Antarctic Science International Bursary are awards of up to £5000, made annually to support the development of the careers of promising young scientists working in any field of Antarctic science. The purpose of the award is to broaden the scope of an existing research project, especially for postdoctoral studies, through:

• funding extra field or laboratory work;
• purchasing/contributing towards the cost of a key piece of equipment;
• funding international collaboration

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Publications / Web resources

New global carbon budget and carbon trend analyses including 2010 (Global Carbon Project). More info... Latest edition of Blue Diamonds - Ocean and Coasts - the newsletter of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). More info... (See also the GLOC and IGR-3 Conferences in January 2012). Blueprint for ocean and coastal sustainability. Interagency paper towards the preparation of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). More info... Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Newsletter. Vol 4 n°3 Fall 2011. More info...
The "first light" Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) ocean chlorophyll image. More info... Honjo, S., Eglinton, T. and members of the GBF-OOI Scientific Steering Committee (2011). Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Scoping Workshop on a Biogeochemical Flux Program Aligned with the Ocean Observatories Initiative. More info...

Meetings / Conferences / Workshops in December and January

• WOC Workshop (12-13 December 2011, Paris, France). More info...

• EuroMarine General Assembly (17-19 January 2012, Bremen, Germany). More info...

• Coastal Carbon Workshop - Eastern North (19-20 January 2012, College W&M, USA). More info...

• Global Conference on Land-Ocean Connections (GLOC) (23-24 January 2012, Manila, The Philippines). More info...

• 3^rd intergovernmental Review - GPA - IGR-3 (25-27 January 2012, Manila, The Philippines). More info...