POGO News

3rd Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:59:50 GMT

A consortium of institutions and organizations from Monterey, California has successfully bid to host the third symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World in autumn 2012. The symposium aims to attract more than 300 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles. It will also cover socio-economic consequences of ocean acidification, including policy and management implications.

Updated Repeat Hydrography Manual Now Available On-line

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:23:27 GMT

The Global Ocean Ship-based Repeat Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) was developed to provide a sustained coordination mechanism for global repeat hydrography as outlined in the GO-SHIP strategy (available online at: http://www.go-ship.org/Docs/IOCTS89_GOSHIP.pdf. Central to this coordination is ensuring that measurements made by different groups are comparable, compatible, and of the highest quality possible.

One early priority for GO-SHIP was to revise the 1994 WOCE Hydrographic Programme manual. In the 15 years since the original publication of the manual, many methods and techniques have changed and new sensors have been developed. The GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Manual: A Collection of Expert Reports and Guidelines (www.go-ship.org/HydroMan.html) provides detailed instructions for the high quality collection and analysis techniques of numerous ocean parameters, both physical and biogeochemical.

MATLAB Toolbox for Secondary Quality Control

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:55 GMT

The Matlab Toolbox to Perform Secondary Quality Control (2nd QC) on Hydrographic Data by Toste Tanhua (IFM-GEOMAR) was published at CDIAC:
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/2nd_QC_Tool/. The scripts in this package are modified versions of the scripts used by the CARINA project; see Tanhua et al. 2010 for more information.

If you use this tool, please cite as:
Tanhua, T. 2010. Matlab Toolbox to Perform Secondary Quality Control (2nd QC) on Hydrographic Data. ORNL/CDIAC-158. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. doi:10.3334/CDIAC/otg.CDIAC_158.

British Council UK-US New Partnership Fund

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:51:06 GMT

The British Council invites applications from UK higher education institutions for grant funds of up to £20 000 to develop partnerships with higher education institutions located in the United States. The funds are intended to stimulate growth of a new variety of UK-US strategic partnerships between higher education institutions or for the growing UK-US cooperation involving higher education institutions in third countries. More information on the New Partnership Fund is available via http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-pmi2-he-funding-opportunities.htm. The deadline for applications is 1730 BST on 31 October 2010.

Call for a global biogeochemical fluxes programme for the Ocean Observing Initiative

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:32:06 GMT

A call has been issued for contributions to a web-based white paper on a global biogeochemical fluxes component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Specific objectives of this "interactive white paper" are to:

To identify key elements of the proposed Global Biogeochemical Flux (GBF) component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) that will build upon planned physical and cyber infrastructure for rapid distribution of crucial data and samples to the research community;
Outline core observation and measurement strategies;
Highlight technological advances that will allow these objectives to be realized; and
To stimulate interest and discussion amongst the ocean research community.

Go to website for more details.

Contributions invited for a map- and web-based overview of Ocean Acidification research

ssve@pml.ac.uk (Sophie Seeyave) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:10:02 GMT

The SOLAS-IMBER Ocean Acidification working group (http://www.imber.info/C_WG_SubGroup3.html) is developing a web-based, interactive database of ocean acidification research. The goal of the project is to provide a map-based overview of ongoing and past research projects on ocean acidification, with web links for research groups to promote information and coordination of activities.

R/V Kav Kav II

ldly@pml.ac.uk (Lisa Delaney) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:17:34 GMT

On February 27^th 2010, shortly after an 8.8 earthquake hit the central coast of Chile, a series of tidal waves destroyed the fishing town of Dichato located 40 km Northwest of Concepcion. The Marine Biological Station of the Department of Oceanography of the University of Concepcion located there was swept away by the tsunami, and the R/V Kay Kay II anchored in front of the Station ended up on a hill inland, in Coliumo.

Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems - Training Course

ldly@pml.ac.uk (Lisa Delaney) — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:22 GMT

The Tenth International Training Course on Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems, sponsored by UNU-INWEH-UNESCO, will be held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Annamalai University, India from October 1-15, 2010. Application and Fellowship forms, along with two reference letters, must be submitted by August 15, 2010. For more information, click here.

The Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research

ldly@pml.ac.uk (Lisa Delaney) — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:50:56 GMT

A new collaboration between South Africa and Norway, The Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research, was launched May 20th, 2010 and consists of a partnership between the University of Cape Town's Marine Research (MA-RE) Institute (South Africa) and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, NERSC, (Norway). This collaboration aims to collect oceanographic information on the South Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.

For more information, refer to the following articles from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre and SciDev.net.

Ocean salinities show an intensified water cycle

ldly@pml.ac.uk (Lisa Delaney) — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:46:00 GMT

14 April 2010 (online article from CSIRO available here)

Evidence that the world's water cycle has already intensified is contained in new research to be published in the American Journal of Climate. The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. The study, co-authored by CSIRO scientists Paul Durack and Dr Susan Wijffels, shows the surface ocean beneath rainfall-dominated regions has freshened, whereas ocean regions dominated by evaporation are saltier.