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IOCCP News Issue Number 15, February 2007

Workshop announcement: Surface Ocean CO2 Variability and Vulnerabilities
Data set release: Climatology of Global Surface Ocean Alkalinity
Meeting report: GlobCOLOUR First User Consultation meeting
CCHDO Website revamped
Dick Feely elected AGU fellow
Upcoming meetings and workshops

IOCCP News Issue Number 14, November 2006

Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” established at the University of Kiel and Leibniz Institutes
Potential for use of the Swedish icebreaker Oden for Southern Ocean research
Workshop on Modelling the Response of Marine Ecosystems to Increasing Levels of CO2
Excel macro developed to calculate CO2 system parameters
UNESCO-SCOPE Policy brief on the Global Carbon Cycle published
Systematic Observation Requirements for Satellite-based Products for Climate
Meeting and workshop announcements
Upcoming meetings and workshops

IOCCP News Issue Number 13, August 2006

Report summary from the Initial North Atlantic Synthesis meeting, Iceland
Map of carbon time series sites now available
Report from the OCCC Ocean Carbon Workshop, July 10-13 Woods Hole
Ocean carbon and the International Polar Year web site
Report release: 'Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Califiers' sponsored by NSF, NOAA, and USGS
AGU session annoucements related to ocean carbon
Meeting and workshop announcements
Upcoming meetings and workshops

IOCCP News Issue Number 12, May 2006

WAVES (Web-Accessible Vizualization and Extraction System) website launched
Ocean carbon scientists in the news - P16N shows increased acidification
Two projects on the optimisation of observation networks to deduce ocean CO2 fluxes
New time series web page on the IOCCP site
Ocean Carbon and the International Polar Year
Up coming meetings, workshops and conferences

IOCCP News Issue Number 11, February 2006

Report from the International Repeat Hydrography and Carbon Workshop
"Friends of Oxygen on Argo" Group Established
Roger Dargaville Joins the IOCCP Project Office !
Upcoming Ocean Carbon Sessions at AGU and EGU
Ocean Carbon Community Invited to Advise ESA GlobColour Project
Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research
Symposium to Mark 50th Anniversary of Line P
SCAR-SCOR Southern Ocean Expert Group Report Available

IOCCP News Issue Number 10, November 2005

Ocean Carbon Open House Presentations On-Line
IOCCP holds its first Scientific Steering Group meeting
International Repeat Hydrography Meeting Nov 14-16: an update
GLODAP Results and Data Published
EGU 2006 Special Sessions for Ocean Carbon issues

IOCCP News Issue Number 9, August 2005

Ocean Carbon Open House planned for ICDC7
WHOI ocean carbon meeting provides information on future program structure
Royal Society of London releases report on ocean acidification
Global Carbon Project Climate Vulnerabilities Conference talks on-line
New Terms of Reference approved for the IOCCP

IOCCP News Issue Number 8, May 2005

IOCCP expands its mandate and establishes a Scientific Steering Group
The "Ocean Carbon Directory" developed as part of new IOCCP mandate
An Ocean Carbon Community meeting planned at International CO2 Conference
European Space Agency launches GlobCOLOUR Project
CLIVAR and IOCCP initiate planning for a Repeat Hydrography Workshop
OCCC Workshop -The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
Open position announcement: EUR-OCEANS Assistant Coordinator

IOCCP News Issue Number 7, February 2005

CARBO-OCEAN Holds Kick-Off Meeting in Bergen
Changing "Ocean-Colour" ?: A Survey
New MATLAB routine to calculate CO2 System Parameters
Southeast Asia Regional Committee for START Call for Proposals
IMBER Executive Officer Position Open until 14 February
SOLAS Project Officer Position Open
SOLAS Summer School Open for Applications

IOCCP News Issue Number 6, November 2004

"Guide of Best Practices" Coming Soon / PICES WG 17 Meeting News
First CarboOcean Mesocosm CO2 Perturbation Study Announced
UNFCCC Requests Special Report on Ocean Observations for Climate
IGOS Partners Carbon Theme Developing Implementation Plan
"The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate"- A NATO ASI Publication

IOCCP News Issue Number 5, August 2004

CARBOOCEAN Under Contract Negotiations - A Strong European Contribution to Worldwide Ocean Carbon Cycle Research
North Pacific Regional Research Synthesis Group Approved as a GCP Project
Ocean Observations Panel for Climate Endorses IOCCP for Ocean Carbon Coordination
Research Priorities Report Published from The Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium
Update on the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research Project
Citation Protocol for Publicly Available Ocean Carbon Data Sets
The Impacts of Climate Change on the Carbon Cycle in the North Pacific: an IOCCP Session at the PICES 13th Annual Meeting.

IOCCP News Issue Number 4, May 2004

CLIVAR / IOC Indian Ocean Panel Meeting Report
Summary of the Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium
IGOS Integrated Global Carbon Observation Theme Finalized
US Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Implementation Strategy Published
GCOS 10 year implementation plan begins review period
CLIVAR Atlantic Basin Panel Meeting - 20 June

IOCCP News Issue Number 3, February 2004

Results from the Tsukuba Workshop on Ocean Surface pCO2 Data
SOLAS and IMBER to Work Together on Ocean Carbon Implementation
BEAGLE 2003 - An Expedition Around the Southern Hemisphere
POGO - IOC - SCOR Capacity-Building Fellowships Need Hosts
A CLIVAR Workshop on North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Variability
A Brief History of Ocean Carbon and its Links to the United Nations Global Observing Systems for Climate
Upcoming CLIVAR Basin Panel Meetings - Indian and Atlantic

IOCCP News Issue Number 2, November 2003

Carbon and Tracer News from the CLIVAR Southern Ocean Panel Meeting
Ocean Surface pCO2 Workshop to be Held in Tsukuba, January 14-17 2004
CLIVAR Carbon Representatives Named
A26.5 Line May Reoccupy 24N
SOLAS Working Group 3 Holds First Meeting
Methods Handbook Scheduled for Early 2004 Publication
New Southern Ocean "OISO" Data Available
New Software to Calculate CO2 Parameters for Mac and Unix

IOCCP News Issue Number 1, August 2003

The IOCCP is launched at first workshop
Ocean carbon experts to be added to CLIVAR Basin Panels
October workshop planned for underway data formats, methods
IOC to facilitate permission process for research in territorial waters
IOCCP investigates ways to create journal articles for data sets
South China Sea regional carbon pilot project to be launched in November
U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program develops ocean implementation plan
The IOCCP needs input from you on the latest plans for ocean carbon measurements