SOLAS e-bulletin 59
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New SOLAS Project Officer starting soon in Norwich The new Project Officer, Kath Mortimer, will be starting in the Norwich office on 20 May. Sophie Seeyave will continue working with her in the office until the beginning of July. Kath's e-mail address will be circulated very shortly. Left: Kath Mortimer, new SOLAS PO as of 20th May. |
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A successful meeting was held in Lueneburg, near Hamburg, Germany, from 26 to 28 April, despite the travel disruptions caused by the volcanic ash cloud. The working papers can be downloaded from the meeting web page. Right: SSC meeting venue (Bergstroem Hotel, Lueneburg, Germany) |
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Mid-term strategy Among other things, the SSC meeting addressed the way forward for the 'mid-term strategy' , a set of key research areas identified as priorities for SOLAS. New web pages will be created shortly to help coordinate research and e-mails will be sent to the community encouraging participation in these research themes. The mid-term strategy will also be the theme of the next SOLAS Newsletter. Meetings will be held on each of the topics, starting with a lunchtime meeting on 'Sea ice biogeochemistry and interactions with the atmosphere' at the International Polar Year Open Science Conference (8-10 June, Oslo, Norway). Contact Jacqueline Stefels for further details. Another topic is 'Air-sea fluxes in eastern boundary upwelling systems and oxygen minimum zones', coordinated by Veronique Garcon. A 3-day meeting will be held at IMARPE in Lima, Peru, with the aim to stimulate internationally coordinated oceanic and atmospheric experiments in 2011-2012. Go to meeting web page. |
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6th Management Committee meeting The last of the COST-735 meetings for the financial year 2009-10 has just taken place and proposals for 2010-11 are currently being reviewed by the COST Action-735 Management Committee (MC). The MC meeting will take place at the Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ZMAW) in Hamburg, Germany, from 25 to 26 May. It will be attended by 10 MC members from 8 countries, the IPO staff and an administrative officer from COST. The members will discuss the Action's progress over the past year and select the proposals for workshops and Short Term Scientific Missions to be funded in 2010-11. |
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21 May: Abstracts and early bird registration for the 14th Biennial Challenger Society Conference on Marine Science, 6-9 September 2010, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. Go to website 23 May: Abstracts for the Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC), 13-18 June 2010, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Limited funds available for students and postdocs (contact Rachael Austin). Go to website. 26 May: Proposals for NERC Knowledge Exchange Scheme. Go to website. 26 May: Letters of intent for NOAA Climate Programme 2011 funding opportunities. Go to website. 27 May: Session proposals for the Fall American Geosciences Union (AGU) Meeting in San Francisco, 13-17 December 2010. Opportunity to propose a SOLAS session! Go to website. 1 July: Proposals for Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Scoping Workshops. See guidelines. |
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News from associated projects... Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Southern Ocean regional meeting SOLAS, IMBER and IOCCP are co-sponsoring this meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, on 16-18 June 2010. The meeting plans to complete the quality control of the Southern Ocean data and develop synthesis plans for the use of these data. Read more. New website for BIOACID The SOLAS endorsed project on ocean acidification has a new website: http://www.bioacid.de (previous website was http://bioacid.ifm-geomar.de). Visit the website to find out more about the project and how to get involved. US GEOTRACES Arctic planning workshop The workshop will take place on 29 September-2 October to generate an action plan for future GEOTRACES activities in the Arctic between US investigators and international collaborators. There will be limited travel support available for attendees. Read more. |
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Dr Emilie Brévière (Executive Officer) SOLAS International Project Office Marine Biogeochemie IFM-GEOMAR Duesternbrookerweg, 20 Kiel 24105, Germany Email:ebreviere{at}ifm-geomar.de |
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Dr Sophie Seeyave (Project Officer)SOLAS Nodal Office |
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