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FEBRUARY 2010
05-02-10
The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is holding a Training Institute on 'the use of seasonal climate predictions' in Buenos Aires, 2-13 August 2010
The 2-week Institute aims to increase local and regional capacity in the use of seasonal prediciton and is open to graduate students and young scientists from North and South America. More information.
01-02-10
Announcement of Ocean Acidification training workshop
The workshop, organised by EPOCA, will take place at IFM-GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, from 8 to 12 March 2010. It will build upon recommendations from the Guide of Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting, combining lectures and practical training. Deadline for registration is 15 February. Announcement. Workshop agenda.
JANUARY 2010
28-01-10
The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Processes textbook has been published
The textbook, which covers all the topics taught at the SOLAS summer schools, is edited by Eric Saltzman and Corinne Le Quere, with contributions from the 2007 Summer School lecturers. The book can be ordered from the AGU website.
26-01-10
SOLAS Newsletter Issue 10 now available!
2010 kicks off with our 10th issue of the SOLAS Newsletter, which reports on two major international SOLAS events: the SOLAS Summer School (August 2009) and the SOLAS Open Science Conference (November 2009). The scientific articles are written by both summer school alumni and OSC participants. The issue also presents the winners of the Summer School and OSC poster/presentation competitions and includes reports and photos from both events and summaries of the OSC Discussion Sessions. You'll also find updates on the COST Action 735 and Special Reports on recent conferences and meetings, as well as the usual partner project updates and national reports.
Click here to download the issue or e-mail us if you would like to order a hardcopy (limited number available)
Training course on 'Classification in atmospheric sciences and their applications', Augsburg, Germany, 12-16 April 2010
The objective of this course is to give students an introduction to classification methods (in particular for classification of tropospheric circulation patterns), and to provide a basis for understanding the various classification methods applied to describe atmospheric circulation. This course is supported by the COST Action 733 and is aimed at young researchers within geosciences, preferably meteorology, climatology and hydrology. More information
22-01-10
Launch of SCOR Working Group 131 'The legacy of in situ iron enrichment experiments -data compiling and modelling' database
The database will be launched at a workshop on 21 February 2010 (1400-1700) at the ASLO/AGU Open Sciences Meeting in Portland. This relational database resides at the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) and will enable inter-comparisons of data between experiments conducted in the HNLC waters of the Southern Ocean, Equatorial and Subarctic Pacific. The organisers (Phil Boyd, WG co-chair and Cyndy Chandler, BCO-DMO) hope that this will stimulate exciting and novel opportunities for data synthesis and modeling, from 1-dimensional biological models through to complex 3-dimensional ocean biogeochemical models. The aim is to use this launch as a platform for planning a modeling/synthesis workshop in 2011. More information
The database can be accessed here prior to the workshop (text based or GIS interface) -select FeSyn as the programme name then find the project and cruise of interest.
There will be a further lauch at the SOLAS-IMBER session at the European Geosciences Union Assembly in May 2010 (see abstract). Contact Phil Boyd or Dorothee Bakker for further details.
20-01-10
Bulletin 56 release
Our most recent bulletin is now available here. The bulletin archive is available in the 'news' section on the navigational bar on this webpage. If you wish to subscribe to our monthly e-bulletins and/or our newsletter, please find the links in the left-hand sidebar or click here.
15-01-10
Launch of GEOTRACES series of global ocean sections
GEOTRACES has announced the completion on January 9th of the first dedicated GEOTRACES section. The cruise included three legs in the Indian Ocean and ended in Cape Town, South Africa. In conjunction with the launch, GEOTRACES will host a lunchtime event at the Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland to introduce GEOTRACES objectives and anticipated products to the wider oceanographic community. GEOTRACES products of particular interest to SOLAS will include global information about aerosol abundance, and a wide suite of upper-ocean trace-metal concentrations.
At the Portland launch event, organizers of GEOTRACES will present a brief description of the scope of the field program as well as the anticipated products and the data system designed to make the results available. Anyone interested in participating in or using data from GEOTRACES is encouraged to attend. The event is scheduled for Room E-143 in the Oregon Convention Center from 11:45-12:45 on Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Boxed lunches will be provided. More about GEOTRACES
Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystem (ADOES) officially acknowledged as a SOLAS Task Team
The webpage will be updated shortly with the latest version of the Task Team proposal.
12-01-10
Open Science Conference 2009
- You can now access the full Discussion session reports
- Please fill in the evaluation questionnaire to give us valuable feedback in preparation for the next OSC.
08-01-10
Abstract submission deadline for Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces Symposium in Kyoto, Japan, now extended to 15th January
Find out more about the conference...
SOLAS-IMBER Carbon Group (SIC) web pages updated
Follow the link to find out more about the 3 SIC Sub-group activities...
05-01-10
The International Council for Science (ICSU) is requesting your input
Consultations are open on two subjects:
1. The proposed grand challenges in global sustainability research over the next decade, what current research efforts can be woven into the challenges, and what international research coordination is needed. Consultation open until 21st February. Go to consultation website...
2. ICSU Foresight Analysis: What will be the key drivers that influence international science over the next 20 years? Consultation open until 25th January. Go to consultation website...
US National Research Council requesting input on ocean research infrastructure
The National Research Council’s Committee on “An Ocean Infrastructure Strategy for U.S. Ocean Research in 2030” is requesting community input on ocean research infrastructure that will be needed in 2030 to address the pressing research questions at that time. This includes ships, shore side facilities with large, expensive instrumentation, in situ observing systems based on large arrays of autonomous platforms or fixed assets such as cables. The committee’s goal is to receive input from as broad a perspective as possible.
Deadline 31st January.
More information...
04-01-10
Call for nominations for the position of Director of the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science
Suggestions, including self-nominations are required by 20th January 2010. Click here for further details about the position and application process.
New Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry projects webpage
The OCB Project Office now maintains its projects list via an interface with the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)'s searchable database system. To add your project to the list, you need to fill out a project metadata form and submit it to the OCB Project Office.
DECEMBER 09
21-12-09
Article published in Science "Tracking the variable North Atlantic sink for atmospheric CO2"
The article by Andy Watson and colleagues including many SOLAS scientists (Science 326, 1391, 2009) was published in early December and covered by a piece in the Economist.
21-12-09
Climate Change Index launched by IGBP at COP15
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice. The index gives an annual snapshot of how the planet’s complex systems – the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere - are responding to the changing climate.
12-12-09
Bulletin 55 release
Our most recent bulletin is now available here. The bulletin archive is available in the 'news' section on the navigational bar on this webpage. If you wish to subscribe to our monthly e-bulletins and/or our newsletter, please find the links in the left-hand sidebar or click here.
08-12-09
Global surface pCO2 database now available
Approximately 4.5 million measurements of surface water partial pressure
of CO2 obtained over the global oceans during 1968-2008 are listed in the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) database, which includes open ocean
and coastal water measurements. This version is referred to as Version 2008, and includes the data
collected through 31 December 2008. In this update, twenty six new
cruise/ship files have been added to the previous version 2007. The database can be accessed here.
08-12-09
SOLAS Open Science Conference in Barcelona
The SOLAS OSC took place in Barcelona from 16th to 19th November. The conference brought together 250 scientists from 29 different countries to exchange research results and ideas. Read more...