Dates for your diary....

22nd - 24th February 2009, Savannah, Georgia
Chemical oceanography in a changing world

24th - 27th February 2009, Bergen, Norway
Training workshop on the fundamentals of carbon biogeochemistry

15th - 20th March 2009, Lucca, Italy
2009 Gordon Research Conference: Polar Marine Science beyond IPY: Crossing Boundaries

28th - 30th April, Monterey Bay, USA
OCB Scoping Workshop: "Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders"

22nd - 26th June 2009, Davos, Switzerland
2009 Goldschmidt conference - Our Volatile Planet

Did you know?

Early career scientist travel grants from IASC are available for the Arctic Science Summit Week. For more information, click here.
The deadline for application is 15th December.

The IMBER-IMBIZO meeting with the theme “Integrating biogeochemistry and ecosystems in a changing ocean: Regional comparisons” is calling for topics for workshops. For more information, click here.
The deadline for proposals is 15th December.

There is an ACCENT call for applications for travel support to the 2009 Goldschmidt Conference /Theme 12. For more information, click here.
The deadline for application is 31st December

<CLIVAR endorses the Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation-Climate Experiment (SPICE)

The Changing Earth Science Network is a new initiative to provide support to young researchers  who  have  a  doctoral  degree  and who would like to initiate a scientific  career  in  the  context  of  Earth  Science. For more information, click here.
The deadline for proposals is 16th January.

Get abstracts submitted to....

EGU General Assembly, 19th - 24th April 2009, Vienna, Austria
AS2.2 Air-Sea Interactions (General Session)
AS2.3 Basic Studies on Turbulence in Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers (General Session)
AS3.2 Aerosol Chemistry and Microphysics (General Session)
AS3.3 Cloud Chemistry and Microphysics (General Session)
AS3.9 Atmospheric halogenated compounds and their chemical transformations
AS3.14 Short-lived pollutants in the polar regions: Sources, transport, impacts
BG3.1 Biogeochemistry of coastal seas and continental shelves
CR9.1 Sea Ice and Sea Ice-Climate Interactions
GI2 Atmosphere, Ocean, Meteorological Instruments and ocean observatory instrumentation
HS4.5 Production, transport, and emission of trace gases from the vadose zone to the atmosphere
NP7.3 Wind-Wave-Current interactions and ocean mixing
OS4 High latitude changes in ocean, ice and climate
OS7 Ocean Remote Sensing
OS8 Open session on SOLAS and sensitivity of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles to climate change
OS9 New aspects of the marine nitrogen cycle's processes and budget
OS10 Southern Ocean Variability
Abstract submission deadline: 13th January 2009

3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting, 22nd - 26th June 2009, Victoria, Canada
Workshop 3. Biogeochemistry of the oceans in a changing climate
Abstract submission deadline: 15th January 2009

IAMAS-IAPSO-IACS 2009 Joint Assembly , 19th -29th July 2009, Montreal, Canada
J13 Biogeochemistry and Climate
J14 Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Boundary Layers and Interactions
M11 Dynamical Implications of Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions
M13 Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation-Precipitation Interactions
P03 Argo and Operational Oceanography
P05 Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans:  General Topics
P06 Ocean Mixing Processes and Consequences
P07 The Southern Ocean:  Its Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Links to the Global Climate System
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd January 2009

2009 Goldschmidt conference - Our Volatile Planet, 22nd - 26th June 2009, Davos, Switzerland
Theme12, "Sources, sinks and impact of atmospheric aerosol"
Abstract submission deadline: 22nd February 2009

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