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- Chris Sabine (USA) The expansion of these activities is made possible through the participation of the new SSG members and the continued generous support of the US National Science Foundation, which has agreed to support a post-doc to work at the Project Office in Paris. An announcement for this post will be circulated soon. The SCOR Executive Council has approved the new TORs and they have been submitted for approval by the 23rd Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, to be held this June. The first meeting of the SSG, to be held jointly with the SOLAS-IMBER carbon coordination group, is being planned in conjunction with the International CO2 Conference in late September. Further Reading: IOCCP
Progress Report - January 2003-October 2004. --all available at: http://ioc.unesco.org/ioccp/about.htm |
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The "Ocean Carbon Directory" developed as part of new IOCCP mandate As part of the new mandate and activities of the IOCCP developed at the December Stakeholders' meeting, the IOCCP has developed a new community web-site, called the "Ocean Carbon Directory". This site is meant to provide "one-stop shopping" information on ocean carbon activities and programs, including news, observation program information, quick links, a community calendar, jobs and funding bulletin board, an image gallery, and a community powerpoint collection. Additions to the site will soon include the new IOCCP subject areas - a remote sensing / modeling information page in collaboration with the IOCCG, a more detailed focus on time series networks in collaboration with the OceanSITES project, a coastal carbon observation compilation / information base in collaboration with LOICZ, and a compilation and synthesis of on-going and planned process studies from research programs. The IOCCP will maintain its quarterly e-news bulletin, but news items will also be posted on the front page of the Directory as they arrive, and time-sensitive announcements will be sent to the community via the ioccp mailinglist. Please take a virtual stroll through the new Directory and send us your comments, photos, powerpoints, web-links, calendar and news items, etc., and help us to make this a useful resource for the international ocean carbon community. Further reading: The Ocean Carbon Directory |
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An Ocean Carbon Community meeting planned at International CO2 Conference The representatives of several ocean carbon research programs have proposed holding an "Ocean Carbon Open House" meeting in conjunction with the International CO2 Conference in Colorado from 26-30 September. The IOCCP will host the Open House, which has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday evening, September 28, beginning at the end of the regular science sessions for the day and lasting for about 2 hours, followed by a reception. This will give representatives of ocean carbon programs the opportunity to present a brief overview of their programs to interested scientists and other program representatives, with a view towards establishing closer collaborations for both observations and research among the numerous activities being carried out. A small organizing committee is being formed to develop the agenda and they will provide more detailed information in the coming days. Mark your calendars ! Further
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Space Agency launches GlobCOLOUR Project Dr. Cyril Moulin, on behalf of the IOCCP and in collaboration with the International Ocean-Colour Coordination Group (IOCCG), has agreed to serve as the point of contact for the global ocean carbon-cycle research community in the ESA Data User Element GlobCOLOUR project, which will define, develop and demonstrate an earth observation service for global ocean colour research. GlobCOLOUR has been developed by ESA with the primary objective of fulfilling the User Requirements of the global ocean colour and carbon-cycle research community. Cyril, from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) in France, is currently responsible for the remote sensing applications and for the operation ocean color algorithms for the French PolDER sensors. The project is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2005 and will last for two years. By directly participating in this project, ESA will provide the global ocean carbon-cycle research community with free access to the geo-information products of the project. Cyril
will act as a focal point for the ocean carbon cycle community
and will seek broad input and participation for: The IOCCP will develop a special site on the Ocean Carbon Directory to keep the community informed about this project and develop a mailing list to directly seek input from interested members of the community. |
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CLIVAR and IOCCP initiate planning for a Repeat Hydrography Workshop
1. Information compilation and re-organization (as required) of the hydrographic and carbon/tracer lines to be carried out during this decade for each ocean basin, with a particular emphasis on the Pacific basin and new collaborations with countries in the region; 2. Identfication and international agreement on a required suite of measurements needed to be included as part of the CLIVAR / CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program; 3. Identification of a data management system that will fulfil the needs of all participants within the program and establish a standardized regional data distribution system; 4. Set up plans for regional synthesis of the cruise data with respect to optimizing overall data quality on a basin-by-basin basis; 5.
Review and make plans to update the WOCE Hydrographic Program
Manual, as required. More
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Announcement:
OCCC Workshop -The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future
Opportunities
"The
Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities" Rapid
advances in ocean carbon research are being driven by targeted
ocean biogeochemical process studies (e.g., VERTIGO, SOFeX, EDDIES),
on-going time-series programs (HOT, BATS, CARIACO), the global
CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program and surface CO2 Volunteer
Observing Ship Program, and satellite observations. A rich set
of opportunities for ocean carbon cycle research is also emerging
from the planned NSF supported ORION ocean observation infrastructure.
As part of the new Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) program,
we are hosting a science workshop this summer with the specific
objectives to: The
format of the workshop will include invited plenary talks, poster
sessions, and discussion groups. Participants will include ocean
scientists with expertise in ocean carbon observations, process
studies, remote sensing, numerical modeling and sensor/platform
technology development. Further
Reading: http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=2384 |
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Open position announcement: EUR-OCEANS Assistant Coordinator Assistant for EUR-OCEANS coordination (a EURopean network of excellence for OCean Ecosystems ANalysiS). EUR-OCEANS is a new European Network of Excellence (http://www.eur-oceans.org ) dealing with marine ecosystems and global change, involving 160 PIs within 66 Institutes cross 20 countries. EUR-OCEANS is seeking to appoint an assistant for coordination of activities on trophic model interfacing and regional system integration (respectively WorkPackages 3.1 and 7 of the NoE). The job will be undertaken at the Institut Universitaire Europeen de la Mer, Brest, France, in close conjunction with the EUR-OCEANS Project Office and the IMBER International Project Office (http://www.imber.info ). The tasks include assisting the WP leader in implementing the EUR-OCEANS Workplan, organizing and servicing meetings, gathering relevant informations and share them across the entire network, partipating in the project website and interacting with the System Integration Task Team (SITT) and the Network Steering Committee (NSC). For this position we seek a candidate with a PhD and a track record in scientific coordination or project management, and preferably some experience in biogeochemistry or marine ecosystems. Some national or international travel will be involved. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal abilities, be fluent in English and have very good skills in both written and verbal communication. This post is available for three years and will be filled as soon as possible. Starting salary will be in the range of 26,800 to 36,700 Euros, dependent on the relevant skills, knowledge and experience that the post holder brings to the role. Details of the EUR-OCEANS project can be viewed at http://www.eur-oceans.org Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Patrick MONFRAY, e-mail: patrick.monfray@cnes.fr Applications, to include a CV, and the names and contacts for two referees should be sent by May 20th, 2005, to : Patrick MONFRAY LEGOS, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin 31401 TOULOUSE Cedex 9, FRANCE Tel. Secr.: (33) 5 61 33 29 02
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The
IOCCP began in January of 2003 as a pilot project of the Global
Carbon Project and the IOC-SCOR CO2 Panel, with a mandate to provide
coordination services for large-scale CO2 field programs that
will form the basis of a sustained observing system- a system
that will extend beyond the lifetime of any single research program.
In its first two years, the IOCCP has worked to develop an international
communications and coordination network for scientists and their
national, regional, and global research programs, and to bring
these groups together through targeted workshops to harmonize
implementation plans, methods and standards, data management,
and data synthesis activities that contribute to the development
of the sustained observing system. After the December 2004 Stakeholders'
Meeting at UNESCO, Paris, the sponsors of the IOCCP agreed to
formalize this pilot project to make it a standing project, and
to expand its mandate to include coordination services for the
full range of ocean carbon activities (not just large-scale CO2
field programs) as requested by research programs. As part of
this process, the IOCCP has developed new Terms of Reference and
has established a Scientific Steering Group with specific expertise
to address new issues:
The
IOCCP and CLIVAR are in the early stages of planning an international
workshop for repeat hydrography, hosted by Masao Fukasawa, and
tentatively scheduled for early November at the Mutsu Institute
of Oceanography, JAMSTEC, Japan. IOCCP and CLIVAR are forming
an organizing committee, and draft objectives of the workshop
are:
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