Nine working group proposals that have been submitted to the SCOR Secretariat for consideration at the 2018 SCOR Annual Meeting are available on the SCOR Web site. The Executive Committee will be very grateful for comments from SCOR National Committees, individuals, and interested organizations to assist in the review of these proposals. This is, in fact, one of the most important ways in which SCOR’s National Committees and cooperating organizations can provide input to SCOR on scientific priorities. SCOR WG proposal reviews are due to Ed Urban, Executive Director of SCOR, before 1 August 2018. Decisions on which group(s) will be funded will be made at the SCOR annual meeting on 4-7 September 2018 in Plymouth, UK.

Additional membership nominations are welcome from SCOR National Committees. This is an opportunity to involve scientists from countries participating in SCOR in our working group activities. Due to financial limitations, however, working groups may not have more than 10 Full Members (including the chair(s)), so not everyone who is nominated can be selected as a Full Member. Some individuals may be invited to serve on working groups as Associate Members, but their travel funds must come from sources other than SCOR. The primary consideration for selection as a member of a SCOR working group is the scientific expertise of the individual. Another important criterion is SCOR's aim to ensure an appropriate international balance in all of its groups.

In order to provide comments on the SCOR WG proposals, please follow the instructions in the attached Call for review of SCOR WG proposals

Below you can find the list of the 9 WG proposals. You can find more details on them on the SCOR website. 

• Active Chlorophyll fluorescence for autonomous measurements of global marine primary productivity
• The Surface Ocean CO₂ Mapping intercomparison initiative: Phase 2 (SOCOMv2)
• Ocean Governance and Policy Analysis for Ocean Deoxygenation (WG-OGOD)
• Carbonate system intercomparison forum (CSIF)
• Toward a new global view of marine zooplankton biodiversity based on DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases (MetaZooGene)
• The Caribbean Upwelling Research Network (CURNet)
• A Framework for Ocean Observation for the Next Generation - expanding quantifiable methods and Best Practices (FOO-BP)
• Coordinated Global Research Assessment Of Seagrass Systems (C-GRASS)
• Co-ordinated approach for Aerosol Trace element Solubility and Bioavailability Research in Oceanography (CoATS-BRO)