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.

On behalf of the AtlantOS/NSF/IOC Best Practice Working Group, we would like to invite you to join an online meeting designed to bring the ocean observing community up-to-date with  latest developments, and discuss next steps and issues with regard to the OceanBestPractices System. The 1-hour meeting will take place on Tuesday 08 May 2018 @ 07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT and 16:00 CEST. As you may be aware, through participation in the first Ocean Best Practice Workshop in Paris last year or other fora, there has been good progress in the IODE Best Practices repository (http://www.oceanbestpractices.net) and a linked research topic in a peer review journal. A vital part of the implementation process is to ensure community engagement, which in turn requires wide understanding and acceptance of the system's added value. If you're interested in participating in the meeting, please email the Working Group at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Connection details to the meeting will be circulated to those participating.

We would like to inform you that the new Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) website is now live. If you're looking for GLODAP data in various formats, want to know who the GLODAP Reference Group is, or want to find out more about GLODAP and its impact, check out the website at https://www.glodap.info. The new web page is built on the same framework and is meant to serve a similar purpose as the SOCAT web page (www.socat.info). This should make many of you feel right at home from the start. If you're keen on receiving timely updates on GLODAP-related news, follow GLODAP on twitter (#GLODAP).

The GLODAP website is hosted by the Bjerknes Climate Data Centre and the ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (Bergen, Norway). If you see any room for improvements or have trouble with GLODAP data, please do not hesitate to let the team know either by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or by filling out the contact form on the website. 

We would like to inform you that the application for the US Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry workshop on "Oceanic Methane and Nitrous Oxide: The present situation and future scenarios" is now open. The workshop will take place 28-31 October 2018 at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Lake Arrowhead Conference Center in California, USA. This three-day workshop builds off a series of global inter-comparison exercises of nitrous oxide and methane. It will cover chemical analysis, microbial metabolism, and our observational and predictive capabilities, as well as address questions to help determine the future directions of methane and nitrous oxide measurements in the global oceans.

Participation in the workshop is open to everyone and attendees will be decided based on application. You can submit your application electronically at: https://web.whoi.edu/methane-workshop/application/. All documents including planning papers, agendas, and presentations will be made available from the workshop website over the forthcoming months. 

Deadline to apply is 1 June 2018. 

We would like to inform you that registration is open for the Biogeochemical Profiling Float Workshop organized by US Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) program, to be held July 9-13, 2018 at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA). The workshop will bring together potential users to discuss biogeochemical profiling float technology, sensors, and data management, to begin the process of the intelligent design of future scientific experiments.

The workshop registration is first come, first served so please register here as soon as possible.

April 13 update: Registration is full, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be added to the waitlist.

We would like to draw your attention to the fast approaching abstract submission deadline for the "Ocean Deoxygenation Conference" that will take place in Kiel, Germany, on 3-7 September 2018 (https://conference.sfb754.de/event/1/). The conference will be hosted by the Collaborative Research Center 754 "Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean". The conference will bring together the global scientific community working on Ocean Deoxygenation and aims to identify drivers and consequences of ocean deoxygenation in the past, present and future.

Abstract submission is open and will close on 31 March 2018. Registration closes on 31 July 2018.

We are very happy to inform you about the next step that IOCCP is taking towards better serving the global ocean biogeochemistry observing community. As Global Ocean Observing System's Biogeochemistry Panel we are expected to gradually expand marine biogeochemistry coordination and communication efforts from carbon-related parameters onto all Biogeochemistry Essential Ocean Variables (http://www.ioccp.org/index.php/foo). The IOCCP SSG decided that based on the current needs of our community and in line with the expanding scope of IOCCP's mission we will devote a portion of our resources to activities related to Oxygen observations.

We are very excited to tell you that our SSG Expert for Oxygen will be Véronique Garçon! Véronique, who is a CNRS Senior Scientist at LEGOS (Toulouse, France) is not only one of the most experienced scientists working on Oxygen and coupled systems observations globally but also a well-established leader in national (IFREMER, CNRS, French Navy), regional (EGU) and international (SOLAS, SCOR, GO₂NE, VOICE) coordination efforts. We would like to utilize Véronique's energy and leadership to improve the global coherence of sustained oxygen observations – a long anticipated expansion of our portfolio driven by our Terms of Reference.

We will soon share more details about our already ongoing as well as planned activities in this arena. In coming months we will also introduce Véronique in one of our communications, but her short bio is already available on our Contacts page.

We are excited to inform you that Kim Currie (NIWA, New Zealand) has joined Masao Ishii at the helm of the IOCCP SSG. In her day job, Kim is a scientist with NIWA and University of Otago in New Zealand, with a focus on marine carbon chemistry. She is responsible for surface ocean carbon programmes and coastal ocean acidification observations in New Zealand, and is actively involved in a number of globally coordinated activities such as SOCAT, GOA-ON and IOCCP. You will have a chance to learn more about Kim and her take on her new role from the next issue of the IOCCP Conveyor which will be published before Easter. We are confident that IOCCP leadership is now in very capable hands as we march on our road towards sustained marine biogeochemistry observations.

We would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Toste Tanhua from whom Kim has taken over the IOCCP co-Chairmanship. Toste has enriched IOCCP with his dedicated service for the past decade and we are very grateful for his pro-active attitude and visionary leadership which benefited marine biogeochemistry and ocean observing in general. We are happy to let you know that Toste will continue his community service in his new role as co-Chair of GOOS.

On behalf of the Ocean Observations Panel for Physics and Climate (OOPC), an expert panel of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), we would like to point your attention to a Communiqué regarding Boundary Currents and Shelf Sea Interactions. To provide guidance to GOOS in its advocacy for a coordinated international approach to sustained coastal observing to complement the global network, OOPC is asking ocean observing and prediction communities to help develop strategies to meet the emerging needs for coastal ocean knowledge by establishing a Task Team on Boundary Currents and Shelf Sea Interactions. The purpose of the Communiqué is to invite input on framing the priorities and objectives of the Task Team, and to seek expressions of interest in participating directly in Task Team activities.

Please consider the document, and respond if possible, by March 31, 2018. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) are pleased to announce that the POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme for 2018 is now open for applications. The program is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation system for the ocean, and is aimed at scientists, technicians, graduate students (preferably PhD) and post-doctoral fellows involved in oceanographic work at centres in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The deadline for applications is 9 April 2018.