For those of you attending the OceanObs'19 Conference, we would like to invite you to join the series of three breakout sessions on "Integrated Ocean Observations", co-organized by members of three GOOS Panels of Experts, including IOCCP as GOOS Biogeochemistry Panel. We especially invite you to join us on Wednesday, September 18, at 14:00 local time in Hawaii, for the session "Integrated Ocean Observations II: Diverse Stakeholder Needs" to discuss how diverse stakeholders can work together to improve and build existing and emerging observing systems under the Framework for Ocean Observing in the next decade. Please see the attached flyer for a session description and agenda, as well as the speaker bios and a list of OceanObs'19 Community White Papers particularly relevant to this session.

On Tuesday, Sep. 17, Jack Barth (Oregon State University, USA) and Sung Yong Kim (KAIST, South Korea) will lead the discussion on "Integrated Ocean Observations I: Across Geographic Scales." Please see the session description and agenda attached here. There series will conclude on Thursday, Sep. 19, when Patricia Miloslavich (University of Tasmania, Australia; Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela) and Nic Bax (CSIRO, Australia) will lead the breakout session on "Integrated Ocean Observations III: Across disciplines and networks." Please see the attached invitation flyer, agenda and background document for that session as well.

On this page you will find a list of subjectively selected 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting sessions relevant to the marine biogeochemistry community. If you're interested in adding a session to this list, please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Abstract submission deadline: 11 September 2019, 11:59 pm EDT.

On behalf of Toste Tanhua, Co-Chair of GOOS, we would like to let you know about an open call for six new and enthusiastic members to join the Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Observing System Programme (GOOS). The GOOS Steering committee currently is made up of scientific and technical experts that guide the work of the components of GOOS; observing system requirements through the three expert Panels on Physics and Climate, Biogeochemistry, and BioEco; the work on implementation through the GOOS Regional Alliances (GRAs) and the Observation Coordination Group (OCG); and the work of the GOOS Office. Membership of the GOOS Steering Committee is for a 2-year renewable term.

The call will close on 30 September 2019 and selection will be made by 31 October 2019. Please see below to view the complete call.

IOCCP is heavily engaged in shaping the community vision and recommendations for sustained marine biogeochemistry and integrated ocean observations for the next decade. With the OceanObs'19 Conference just around the corner, we encourage you to take a look at a number of Community White Papers already published in the special issue of Frontiers in Marine Science. There you can read about the proposed future ocean governance models, lessons learnt from implementing the Framework for Ocean Observing, but also about challenges and recommendations from the GOA-ON, SOCONET, ARGO networks or the time series community. Please see below for a list of full references to these papers. The list will be updated as new relevant white papers get published.

The OceanObs Research Coordination Network (RCN) will host its annual meeting on February 16, 2020, in San Diego, CA, immediately preceding the AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting (https://www2.agu.org/ocean-sciences-meeting/). The meeting will be dedicated to the synthesis of threads and recommendations emerging from the OceanObs’19 Conference, including planning for the implementation of initiatives emerging from OceanObs’19. The meeting will advance links between observation networks and operational users to facilitate the delivery of critical information to stakeholders, and to address critical policy issues that require multidisciplinary ocean observing systems.

Deadline for expressions of interest to attend: 31 October 2019. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We are happy to let you know that you can now follow IOCCP on Twitter (@ioccp_org) to receive short news and other communication related to marine biogeochemistry observations. You can view our most recent posts by hovering over the twitter icon at the top right-hand side of our website. We hope that this additional service will help us communicate with the community even more efficiently. 

As another attempt to achieve uniformity in nomenclature amongst various ship-based observing efforts globally, attached please find a memo from the IOCCP Scientific Steering Group and the Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) Ship Observations Team (SOT) Executive Panel providing guidance on appropriate naming of our scientific activities on ships. In particular the underway pCO₂ measurements.

We would like to let you know about the upcoming Sea-Bird Scientific live webinar on "Ocean Acidification: High-Frequency Long-Term measurements of pH and Deployment Best Practices," which will take place on Thursday, 18 July, at 17:00 UTC. During the webinar, Charles Branham, Ph.D. will cover technical information and advantages of using ISFET pH sensors. Greg Ikeda will talk about best practices for deploying and maintaining the SeaFET V2 and SeapHOx V2, two moored ISFET pH sensors offered by Sea-Bird Scientific. To register for the event, and to read more about the webinar and the speakers, please see here: https://www.seabird.com/webinar_pH

We would like to inform you about the release of version 2019 of the Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (previously known as version 7). The Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT) documents the increase in surface ocean CO₂, a critical measure as the oceans are taking up one quarter of the global CO₂ emissions from human activity. SOCAT version 2019 has 25.7 million quality-controlled surface ocean fCO₂ (fugacity of CO₂) observations from 1957 to 2019 for the global oceans and coastal seas. SOCAT is a community effort with more than 100 contributors worldwide.

We would like to announce the release of a new, fully open source tool, which was designed to ease the Level 1 quality control of hydrographic cruise bottle data before submitting it to the data centres. The tool was developed under the H2020 AtlantOS project. The use of AtlantOS Ocean Data QC is fully multi-platform as installers are provided for Windows, MacOS and several Linux distributions. Visit the GitHub page (https://github.com/ocean-data-qc/ocean-data-qc) to install the tool, view the demo, find out about the details, or post comments on issues/wishes for future releases.