We would like to let you know that the call for applications for an Early-Career Scientist (ECS) to join the SCOR Executive Committee is open. The ECS in the SCOR EC will help reaching out to the broader early-career community and get it involved into SCOR activities. Term of appointment is for 2 years. More information about the position and application instructions can be found here.

Deadline for submission of applications: 17 July 2020. Please email the completed application form and requested documents to the SCOR Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

“Improving and Integrating European Ocean Observing and Forecasting Systems for Sustainable Use of the Oceans (EuroSea)” is a European Union Horizon 2020 Innovation Action running from November 2019 to December 2023. Through its ambitious vision and objectives EuroSea will, among other things, strengthen European and global coordination of marine biogeochemistry observations. 

EuroSea generously supports the IOCCP Project Officer position for the time frame 2020-2022, and enables a number of key activities which help fulfil IOCCP Terms of Reference as well as implement relevant recommendations from OceanObs’19 Conference and Community White Papers. The activities are related to: (i) increasing the readiness level of delayed mode biogeochemical data products, (ii) enhancing ocean carbon flux observations (and estimates of their economical value), and (ii) supporting global coordination of marine debris observations.

We would like to let you know that the SCOR Executive Committee invites SCOR National Committees, individuals and interested organisations to assist in the review of SCOR working group proposals. Ten working group proposals were submitted to the SCOR Secretariat in response to the 2020 Call. These are available on the SCOR Web site. Instructions to review the proposals can be found here. 

Please send your comments on these proposals to SCOR Executive Director, Patricia Miloslavich, by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if possible, before 31^st August 2020, and do not hesitate to contact with any questions about the review process.

We would like to let you know that a call for abstracts is open for the 9^th International EuroGOOS Conference "Advances in Operational Oceanography: Expanding Europe's ocean observing and forecasting capacity." The conference will take place in Brest, France, from 14 to 15 October 2020. The event will be hosted by SeaTech Week. The conference provides a forum for a broad range of implementers and users of operational oceanography services, including marine scientists and technologists, private companies, and policymakers. This year there is a number of themes and topics related to marine biogeochemistry which our community might find interesting. 

Deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 May 2020. For more information on the Conference format, provisional programme and details of abstract submission process, please see the Conference website at https://eurogoos.ifremer.fr

We would like to let you know that the first meeting of the US Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Working Group on "Filling the gaps in observation-based estimates of air–sea carbon fluxes" will take place this week, May 5-6, 2020 via Webex. The first day of the meeting (May 5) is open to everyone and will include presentations on the current state of understanding of the global ocean carbon sink. If you're interested, please register in advance HERE. After you submit your registration, Webex will send you an invitation with connection information, including a phone number if you prefer telephone audio. You can visit the working group website to view the meeting agenda. The presentations on May 5 will be recorded and posted on the OCB YouTube channel for viewing later. All webinar attendees will be muted, but you can type in questions and participate in discussion via the Q&A function as time allows at the end of each block of talks.

This working group was assembled in 2019 to assess critical uncertainties in existing observation-based air-sea carbon fluxes, determine how best to integrate observation-based open-ocean and coastal-ocean CO₂ air–sea fluxes, and quantify uncertainties in the natural (pre-industrial) outgassing of CO₂. These efforts will lead to better constraints on the contemporary ocean carbon sink and its variability. The results of this OCB Working Group will assist the global carbon community in understanding the state of the global carbon cycle so as to contribute to international efforts to address climate change.

We would like to let you know that a new combined surface pCO₂ climatology, produced by Peter Landschützer (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) and co-authors, is now available and archived at NOAA's Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) Project, National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The data product was created by merging 2 published and publicly available pCO₂ datasets covering the open ocean (Landschützer et. al 2016) and the coastal ocean (Laruelle et. al 2017). Both fields were initially created using a 2-step neural network technique. Full documentation with metadata and dataset download links can be obtained from the product website: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0209633. A manuscript describing the method and the dataset was submitted to Earth System Science Data journal.

This product is free to be used. Please cite this data set as:

Landschützer, Peter; Laruelle, Goulven; Roobaert, Alizee; Regnier, Pierre (2020). A combined global ocean pCO₂ climatology combining open ocean and coastal areas (NCEI Accession 0209633). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi: https://doi.org/10.25921/qb25-f418. Accessed [2020-04-08].

We would like to let you know that in view of the current situation with COVID-19, the Organizing Committee of the 5^th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO₂ World has extended the deadline for submissions of abstracts until Friday, 24 April 2020. Applicants for Travel support will be notified on the outcome of their application by 7 May. A decision will be made by mid-May on whether to continue with the proposed date (7-10 September 2020) or delay the Symposium.

The Symposium organizers are monitoring the situation closely and updates will be posted on the Symposium website: http://highco2-lima.org/index.htm

We wanted to let you know that the application deadline for SCOR Working Group proposals was extended to May 8^th, and that the deadline for SCOR-POGO Visiting Fellowship Programme 2020 was extended to April 30^th. 

We would like to let you know about a webinar introducing a new EU Horizon 2020 project SO-CHIC (Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate). The webinar will take place on April 7, at 13:00 UTC, and will be given by Jean-Baptiste Sallée (LOCEAN-IPSL, France). You can register for the webinar here:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zmuk7prXQciogyJlTMgMeg

To contribute to reducing uncertainties in climate change predictions, the overall objective of SO-CHIC is to understand and quantify variability of heat and carbon budgets in the Southern Ocean through an investigation of the key processes controlling exchanges between the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice using a combination of observational and modelling approaches. The SO-CHIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°821001.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has opened the second order draft of the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) to government and expert review, marking the continued advancement of preparation in the flagship report. The review runs from 2 March to 26 April 2020 and interested experts can register until midnight CET on 19 April at https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/ar6wg1/sod/register.php.