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WHOI ocean carbon meeting provides information on future program structure
In 2003, the US Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group and its Interagency Working Group requested the ocean carbon community to develop an integrated, cross-agency implementation strategy for the ocean carbon component of this program. The Ocean Carbon and Climate Change program (now officially pronounced "O.C.cubed") was developed to undertake this task, and the US OCCC implementation strategy was published in January 2004. (download report from http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/occc-report.html). At last week's meeting in Woods Hole ("The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities"), Scott Doney, chair of the newly created OCCC Scientific Steering Group, outlined plans for the future U.S. ocean carbon research program based on this implementation strategy. OCCC has established an 8-person steering committee composed of scientists representing the major US agencies with interests in ocean carbon: NSF, NASA, NOAA, and DOE. This steering committee will provide guidance and coordination advice to the agencies, and will interface with the larger, integrated US Carbon Cycle Science group. Within
this OCCC structure, there will also be a larger group called
the "Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry" steering committee
made up of approximately 20 people. This group will include the
OCCC Steering Group members, and will steer and coordinate U.S.
OCCC, SOLAS and IMBER activities. There will be an Ocean Carbon
and Biogeochemistry project office and data management office
funded by NSF, NASA, and NOAA, and an announcement for the competition
of these two offices is expected late summer /fall of this year.
In the interim, Scott Doney, Ken Buessler, and David Glover at
WHOI have been funded to extend some of the coordination and data
management activities of the JGOFS planning and data management
offices, which ran out earlier this year. This will provide interim
support for the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program until
a final project office has been established. Further reading: for further information, please contact Scott Doney. |
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Royal Society of London releases report on ocean acidification
The IOCCP has developed a new sub-site on the Ocean Carbon Directory dedicated to providing information and news on the Ocean in a High CO2 World. Please contact Maria if you have links or materials to contribute to this network of information. Further Reading: The full report is available at: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=13314. |
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Global
Carbon Project Climate Vulnerabilities Conference talks on-line http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/meetings/2005/mini-confence_announcement.htm |
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New Terms of Reference approved for the IOCCP
"Dr Maria Hood, IOC programme specialist and technical secretary for the "CO2 Panel", introduced this agenda item. At the 2002 meeting of the IOC-SCOR Advisory Panel on Ocean CO2 ("the CO2 Panel"), it became clear that, while the CO2 Panel was an effective mechanism for identifying areas requiring closer collaboration in ocean carbon observations, there was a need for a group to implement the necessary actions at the international level. In response to this need, the CO2 Panel, in partnership with the Global Carbon Project, developed a pilot project in 2003, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), to implement targeted, time-bound coordination activities for the ocean carbon community. In its first two years of operation, the IOCCP has been successful at meeting the needs of the community, working directly with over 100 scientists from 17 countries, and attracting external financial support from national agencies and programmes to implement its activities. Several global, regional, and national research programmes have now asked the IOCCP to expand its programme to provide coordination services for research programmes as well as for observational activities. To meet this request without developing a new IOC programme and keeping the financial implications at existing levels, it is proposed to replace the Terms of Reference of the present SCOR-IOC Advisory Panel on Ocean Carbon Dioxide by those of the newly expanded IOCCP, given in Information Document IOC/INF-1208 and rename the Panel the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project." These new Terms of Reference broaden the mandate for the IOCCP to provide communication and coordination services for ocean carbon (not just CO2) and for research programs as well as large-scale field programs. The IOCCP will work closely with IMBER and SOLAS, as well as other national, regional, and global research programs, building on collaborations established by the December stakeholders' meeting. Further Reading: Terms
of Reference for the SCOR-IOC IOCCP (Word, 21Kb)
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The
IOCCP will be hosting an "Ocean Carbon Open House" at
the International CO2 Conference on Wednesday evening, September
28. The purpose of the Open House is to bring together ocean carbon
scientists to share information about major ocean carbon research
programs and to discuss potential collaborations and coordination
activities. The Open House will start at 17:30 on Wednesday evening
after the last session of the ICDC, and will be held in a meeting
room at the Omni Center. This 2 hour information and discussion
session will be followed by a 1.5 hour reception for all participants.
The format of the Open House will include a 5 minute overview
of each program with a very brief question and answer period,
followed by a 40-45 minute open discussion. Talks include:
On June
30th, the Royal Society of London released it's report on "Ocean
acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide".
The report describes the impacts of chemical changes on the oceans
and calls for a substantial research effort to address uncertainties.
(From
the Royal Society Press Release, Thursday June 30.) "Basic
chemistry leaves us in little doubt that our burning of fossil
fuels is changing the acidity of our oceans. And the rate change
we are seeing to the ocean's chemistry is a hundred times faster
than has happened for millions of years. We just do not know whether
marine life - which is already under threat from climate change
- can adapt to these changes." Professor
John Raven, chair of the Royal Society working group on ocean
acidification said: "The oceans play a vital role in the
earth's climate and other natural systems which are all interconnected.
By blindly meddling with one part of this complex mechanism, we
run the risk of unwittingly triggering far reaching effects."
The report looks at various ways of tackling rising acidity such
as adding limestone to the oceans to make them more alkaline.
However, it found that the only practical way to minimise the
risk to the oceans and marine life is to reduce emissions of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere. The report points out that there
is still much uncertainty around the impacts of ocean acidification
and recommends that a major international effort be launched into
this relatively new area of research. Photos
courtesy of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.
During
the June Scientific Steering Committee meeting of the GCP, the
GCP convened a mini-conference on Vulnerabilities of the Carbon-Climate-Human
system. This 1 day open conference examined what is known about
positive and negative feedbacks of the carbon-climate-human system
and highlighted needs for future investigations. Preliminary studies
suggest that, once the major positive and negative feedbacks are
combined, the overall response of the system will lead to a decreasing
ability of the ocean and land to absorb atmospheric CO2 and an
acceleration of the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. By
the end of the century, the potential magnitude of these feedback
processes could be almost as large as the fossil-fuel emissions
themselves. The presentations from this mini-conference are now
available on-line at the GCP web-site.
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