News from SOLAS

PRESENT A SHORT-TALK AT THE SOLAS OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE (OSC) 2012

20 minute short-talks are available in the following sessions:
Sea-ice biogeochemistry and interactions with the atmosphere
Ocean-derived aerosols: production, evolution and impacts
Atmospheric control of nutrient cycling and production in the surface ocean
Air-sea gas fluxes at eastern boundary upwelling and oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) systems
Long-lived greenhouse gases: sea-sir exchange and impact

You can also lead a discussion session and present a poster. For more information about how to be involved in the OSC, please visit the 'Your contribution' page on the SOLAS OSC 2012 website.

Speaker abstracts are now available for confirmed keynote and short talk speakers in all plenary sessions.

Conference fund 2012 applications are now being accepted from early-career scientists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition thanks to support from the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). Click here to find out more and apply.

Full details about the conference venue, programme and invited speakers are available in the 2nd announcement flyer. If you would like to receive printed copies to distribute please email the IPO

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11 JANUARY 2011

Opportunities

Cruise participation
Nutrient cycling and microzooplankton grazing during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Notification of interest deadline: 15 December 2011. More information

Volunteers required
PAGESOcean2k require volunteers to assist in the assembling of a meta-database of marine palaeodata. For more information, please contact Delia Oppo before January 2012

2012 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship scheme
Application deadline: 15 January 2012 More information

2012 Graduate Student Research Awards - North Pacific Research
Application deadline: 10 February 2012 More information

Submit an abstract

European Geosciences Union - General Assembly 2012
Vienna, Austria
22 – 27 April 2012
SOLAS/IMBER Session: OS3.1: Sensitivity of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles to global change
Click here for more available sessions
Abstract submission deadline: 17 January 2012

Call for comment

ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI)’s proposals
The ESA CCI has been set up to exploit the archives of satellite data now available. There are 13 essential climate variables involved including aerosol, cloud, climate models, greenhouse gases, ozone, ocean colour and sea-surface temperature. ESA are looking for potential users of these datasets to guide the final products. More information

A bit of reading...

OCB workshop report
From the scoping workshop "A Biogeochemical Flux Program Aligned with the Ocean Observatories Initiative" http://www.us-ocb.org/publications/reports.html

Data collection

Sailing vessel available for Pacific Ocean Sampling More information

Plea for global marine carbon data - GLODAPv2 More information

Dates for your diary

ACCENT-IGAC-GEIA Conference 2012 ‘Emissions to Address Science and Policy Needs”
11-13 June 2012, Toulouse, France
http://geiacenter.org/workshops/current/wkshpOverview.htm
Announcement Poster
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2012

IMBER ClimECO3 Summer School
23-28 June 2012, Ankara, Turkey
http://www.imber.info/index.php/Early-Career/IMBER-Summer-Schools/ClimECO3-July-2012-Ankara-Turkey
Application deadline: 1 March 2012

6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs)
1 - 5 July 2012, Leipzig, Germany
http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/
Abstract submission deadline (extension): 28 November 2011

DISCCRS VII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium
13 - 20 October 2012, La Foret Conference and Retreat Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
http://disccrs.org/disccrsposter.pdf
Application deadline: 29 February 2012

IMBIZO III
28-31 January 2013, Goa, India
http://www.imber.info/index.php/News/IMBER-future-events/IMBER-IMBIZO-III-28-31-Jan.-2013-Goa-India