SOLAS Update

Project Office:
The SOLAS IPO would like to thank Dr Justin Ho for his work and enthusiasm in the office and wish him all the very best as he moves on in his future career.
Congratulations to Georgia Bayliss-Brown who will be taking up the position of SOLAS Project Officer, from 1st October, in the IPO.

Summer School:
The poster is available for download. Click here.

Open Science Conference:
The first announcement will be released soon.

Deadlines not to miss....

5th EGU Alexander von Humbolt International Conference: Climate Changes and African Earth Systems: past, present and future
11 -16 January 2009, Cape Town, South Africa
Registration deadline: 30 September 2008

11th Pacific Science Inter-Congress: Climate change and ocean acidification
2 - 6 March 2009, Tahiti
Registration deadline: 30 September 2008

ASLO 2009 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
25 - 30 January 2009, Nice, France
Call for special sessions of interest:
013: Response of oligotrophic marine environments to chemical forcing
029: Relationships among plankton community structure, ecosystem function and biogeochemical fluxes in the upper ocean
047: Biogeochemistry and physical dynamics of coastal upwelling regions
Abstract submission deadline: 3 October 2008

International conference on 'New methodologies and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Global Change Research'
5 - 10 November 2008, Porquerolles, France
Registration deadline: 5 October 2008

Call for networking proposals including applications for a workshop group from the ESF Research Networking Programme SIZEMIC (Body-size and ecosystem dynamics)
Application deadline: 31 October 2008

...Dates for your diary

18 - 24 April 2009
EGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Vienna, Austria
Session of interest: SOLAS and sensitivity of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles to climate change

4 - 8 May 2009
41st International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: Science-based managements of the coastal waters, Liege, Belgium

21 - 25 September 2009
OceanObs'09, Venice, Italy

For more SOLAS-related meetings: http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/news/conferencemeetings/conference.html

Did you know?

The GCP have released the new global carbon budget 2007:
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org

MERSEA have created an actual state of the ocean forecast:
http://bulletin.mersea.eu.org/html/produits/mersea_vs/

NASA have developed a global map of wind energy potential:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18090

A bit of reading

‘New directions: The impact of oceanic iron fertilization on cloud condensation nucleii’ Woodhouse, M. T. et al.
Atmospheric Environment 42 (2008) 5728-273 doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.05.0050

‘Coupling between dimethylsulphide emissions and the ocean-atmosphere exchange of ammonia’ Johnson , M. T. &  Bell, T. G.
Enviromental Chemistry 5 (2008) 259-267 doi: 10.1071/EN08030

‘Abundant and diverse bacteria involved in DMSP degradation in marine surface waters’ Howard E. C. et al.
Environmental Microbiology 10(9) (2008) 2397-2410 doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01665.x

Please inform us when you have new SOLAS-science-related publications released, alternatively, you can log on to http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/science/publications/publicationform.html to notify us of your publications.