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Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Summer Workshop

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Clark 507

July 18-21, 2011

Monday July 18, 2011

07:30-08:30   Continental Breakfast

                        Hang posters

08:30 Introduction (Scott Doney, WHOI)

08:40  Data management talk (Cyndy Chandler, BCO-DMO)

09:00  Trends, Thresholds, and Tipping Points in Marine Ecosystems 

            Chairs: Kendra Daly (USF), Jeremy Mathis (UAF) 

09:00  Thinking about regime shifts in marine ecosystems (Brad deYoung, Memorial University)

09:30  Ocean Acidification: Should we view it as a trend, threshold or tipping point? (Ben McNeil, University of South Wales)
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10:00  Is Arctic sea ice approaching a tipping point? (Ian Eisenman, Caltech/UW)
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10:30  Break

11:00  Past and future regime shifts in the North Pacific from physical and biochemical perspectives (Nicholas Bond, UW/JISAO)

11:30  Questions and discussion

Discussion part 1
 
Discussion part 2

12:30  Lunch

14:00  Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Update (Chris Reddy, WHOI)

14:30  Questions and discussion

Raffaele Bernardello

Philip J. Bresnahan

16:00  Poster session and reception

Tuesday July 19, 2011 – Joint session with U.S. CLIVAR

07:30-08:00   Continental Breakfast

                        Hang posters

08:00  OCB and US CLIVAR: A Joint Science Session

            Chairs: Ken Johnson (MBARI), Annalisa Bracco (Georgia Tech)

08:00  Meeting introduction, mutual goals, anticipated outcomes (Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Tech)

08:20  OCB and U.S. CLIVAR: Scientific questions and global observing capabilities (40 mins. talk) (Scott Doney, WHOI)

09:00  Joint OCB and U.S. CLIVAR science and observing objectives (45 mins. community discussion)

09:45  Break (posters)        

10:15  Global modeling challenges (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Mick Follows, MIT)

11:15  Impacts of overturn on ocean heat and carbon fluxes and ecosystem processes

(30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Alison Macdonald, WHOI)

12:15 Lunch

13:45  Southern Ocean challenges: How do climate variability and climate change impact circulation, carbon uptake, and ecosystem processes? (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Nicole Lovenduski, Univ. Colorado)

14:45  Coupled air-sea interaction, heat and gas exchange contributing to variability and trends in ocean biogeochemistry (e.g. carbon sources and oxygen minimum zones) (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Curtis Deutsch, UCLA)

16:15  Sub-daily to seasonal and sub-mesoscale to mesoscale processes and interaction with ocean biology (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Amala Mahadevan, WHOI)

17:15  Wrap-up remarks

17:30  Poster session

18:30  Workshop dinner (Fenno lawn)

Wednesday July 20, 2011

07:30-08:30   Continental Breakfast

                        Hang posters

08:30  Toward the Implementation of a Global Autonomous Biogeochemical Observing System

            Chairs: Kenneth Johnson (MBARI), Mary Jane Perry (U Maine)

08:30  Introduction, overview, and brief history of activities related to autonomous observing for biogeochemistry (Mary Jane Perry, U Maine)

08:45  Vision for understanding the ocean with a global sensor network (Kenneth Johnson, MBARI)

09:15  Potential benefits of synthesizing autonomous network data with models (Stephanie Dutkiewicz, MIT)

09:45  Data quality requirements – oxygen minimum zone example (Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton)

10:15  Break 

10:45  Questions and community discussion

11:30  Sensor calibration and data quality (O2 example) (Todd Martz, Scripps)

12:00  Strategy for cross-calibration of autonomous sensors (Craig Lee, U Washington)

Part 1

12:30  Lunch

14:00  International activities (Hervé Claustre, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche)

14:30  Implementation and community involvement (Open discussion moderated by Johnson and Perry)

16:00  Break and Poster session

Dinner on your own

Thursday July 21, 2011

07:30-08:30   Continental Breakfast

08:30  Agency updates

            NSF  (David Garrison, Donald Rice)

http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/OCBJul2011/Day4/NSFGarrison.wmv

            NASA  (Paula Bontempi)

09:15  OCB scoping workshop report: A Biogeochemical Flux program aligned with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (Susumo Honjo, WHOI)

09:45  Update on joint OCB/NACP coastal synthesis activities (Jeremy Mathis, UAF)

10:15  Break

10:45  RECCAP (Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes) workshop report (Galen McKinley, Univ. of Wisconsin)

11:05  IOCCP activities update (Kathy Tedesco, UNESCO)   

11:15  OCB implementation: Looking beyond scoping (open discussion moderated by Doney)

http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/OCBJul2011/Day4/DoneyR.mov

http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/OCBJul2011/Day4/Doney.wmv

11:50  Closing remarks and wrap-up (Scott Doney, WHOI)

http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/OCBJul2011/Day4/Doney2R.mov
 

12:00  Adjourn and Lunch 

13:30  OCB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) meeting, Smith Conference Room (Woods Hole Village, see map) (OCB SSC members and agency representatives only)

 

 

 



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