Issue 13 focuses on the progress of the SOLAS Mid-Term Strategy with articles from researchers in many of the strategy themes and updates from many theme leaders.
As well as reports from national representatives and partner projects you will find COST Action 735 mission reports, an appeal for data from SOLAS Project Integrator Shital Rohekar and information on SOLAS's new chair, Eric Saltzman.
Don't forget that registration is now open for the SOLAS Open Science Conference, Cle Elum, Washington State, USA, 7-10 May 2012. You can read more in this issue or click here for the first announcement poster.

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Issue 12 focuses on research associated with SOLAS Focus 3 – Air-Sea Flux of CO2 and Other Long-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and begins with an introduction to the work of the SOLAS IMBER joint working groups on ocean carbon. Alongside scientific articles relating to Focus 3 you will find meeting reports, news from SOLAS partner projects and national networks and an update on COST Action 735 activities. In this issue we also introduce 4 new SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee members and the new SOLAS Project Integrator.

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Issue 11 of SOLAS news is dedicated to the SOLAS Mid-Term Strategy an overview of which is presented on pages 4 and 5. As well as scientific articles relating to many of the Mid-Term Strategy themes you will find reports from recent meetings, updates on national SOLAS initiatives, COST Action 735 current activities and information on upcoming conferences and events.

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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.

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Issue 9 of the SOLAS Newsletter focuses on SOLAS collaborations and overlaps with partner projects, proudly including a section on Palaeo-SOLAS. Whilst reporting on recent developments in the research taking place in SOLAS nations, we are also providing you with a taster of future SOLAS directives including developments in research areas, associations with COST Action 735 and SOLAS Data Integration. In addition, we introduce our newest members of the Scientific Steering Committee, Cecile Guieu, Patricia Quinn, Rafel Simo and Minhan Dai and are sure that you will enjoy reading about their work. We found developing this newsletter with a different perspective a pleasure and look forward to hearing your comments and ideas for future issues.

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Issue 8 of the SOLAS Newsletter continues the theme followed by Issue 7 by introducing the community to a range of international scientists, and their timely research, from across the globe. We introduce the people involved within the project acting as National Representatives; our Project Integrator; and the Executive Officer and Project Officer at the International Project Office (IPO). Announcements of the Open Science Conference taking place in Barcelona, from 16th - 19th November 2009, and the opening of application to the SOLAS Summer School in Corsica, from 3rd - 15th August 2009, are also featured.

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Issue 7 of the SOLAS Newsletter brings into focus the research from scientists all over the world and also features a special report from the k- conundrum workshop which occurred in Norwich February 2008 (meeting minutes downloadable from http://cost-735.org/meetings/meetings.html). A special highlight from the past (Peter Liss) and present (Doug Wallace) SOLAS chairs give insight into the future directions of SOLAS. Announcements about the SOLAS Summer School 2009 featured.

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Issue six, the winter edition of the SOLAS newsletter contains reports from the recent SOLAS summer school in Corsica, student presentations and poster competitions as well as feature articles by Nicola Warwick, Andrea Taschetto, Masahiko Fujii, Kai Zhang, Anne-Sophie Kremeur, Jenny Lunden, Toby Westberry, Samuel Jaccard, Manuel Dall'Osto, Philippe Benoit, Andrea Vander Woude and Veronica Lance (1st authors only). In addition the newsletter contains national reports from Spain, UK and Australia. For the latest copy click below to download.

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Issue five highlights some of the science that was shared at the SOLAS Open Science Conference in Xiamen, China, 6-9 March 2007, also includes related project briefs along with SOLAS Special reports.

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Issue four contains articles which focus on the SOLAS Focus 2: Air-sea flux of CO2 and other long-lived radiatively-active gases. This issue also includes related project briefs, SOLAS Special reports along with the first announcement advert for the SOLAS Summer School in Cargese, Corsica, France, 22Oct- 3rd Nov 2007.

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Issue three contains articles which focus on the SOLAS Focus 1: Biogeochemical Interactions and Feedbacks between Ocean and Atmosphere. The Objective of Focus 1 is to quantify the feedback mechanisms involving biogeochemical coupling across the air-sea interface- only truly achieved when studying the ocean and atmosphere in concert. This issue also includes national reports from 10 SOLAS countries; related project briefs; and, a focus on the SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee; along with the first announcement poster for the SOLAS Open Conference in Xiamen, China, due to take place between 6-9th March, 2007.

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Issue two contains articles based on presentations given at the May 2005 Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, a report from the SOLAS Summer School, which ran in Corsica in September, and reports from national SOLAS projects and partner programmes, as well as the now traditional SOLAS crossword!

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Issue one contains scientific highlights from the SOLAS open science conference in October 2004, as well as reports from the discussion sessions held at the event. There are also announcements and reports of SOLAS-related events.

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