In light of the fast approaching abstract submission deadline for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 11-16 February, Portland, OR, USA, we provide a subjectively selected list of sessions relevant for the marine biogeochemistry community. You can access the list through the link HERE.

Please remember that the abstract submission deadline is 6 September 2017, 23:59 EDT.

On behalf of SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research) we would like to ask you to provide input to a survey on their communication strategy. The survey is designed to take no more than 10 minutes of your time and will help SCOR understand the needs of our community. Your input from the perspective of ocean carbon community will be appreciated. To access the survey please follow this link.

On World Oceans Day, 8 June 2017, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission presented the first ever global stock-taking of marine science at the United Nations' Ocean Conference in New York. The Global Ocean Science Report identifies and quantifies the key elements of ocean science at the national, regional and global scales, including workforce, infrastructure and publications. It is the first collective attempt to systematically highlight opportunities as well as capacity gaps to advance international collaboration in ocean science and technology.

We would like to let you know that the Biogeochemical-Argo program has issued its 3^rd Newsletter which summarizes the program highlights and coming events. In this issue you can learn about the featured BGC Argo articles on sensor performance in the SOCCOM profiling float array (Johnson et al.), on particulate concentrations at depth analysed with float data (Poteau et al.), and the EOS article on shedding new light on the "Ocean's many hues" (Organelli et al.). Check out also the status of BGC Argo float deployments during the PEACETIME cruise, and the BGC Argo session at the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting.

You can subscribe to receive future issues of the Biogeochemical-Argo newsletter via this link.

We would like to let you know that SCOR International Working Group #147: "Towards comparability of global oceanic nutrient data (COMPONUT)" have just announced an opportunity for scientists and technicians from developing countries to apply to attend the International Training Workshop for Nutrient Analysis to be held on 5-9 November 2017 at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) laboratories, Texel, The Netherlands. The training workshop, organized by NIOZ and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) for SCOR WG #147, gives insight into nutrient analysis and also offers an opportunity to work in a world leading nutrient facility alongside some of the world's most experienced nutrient chemists using gas-segmented continuous flow analysers (CFA's). This opportunity has been made possible through funding from SCOR and POGO.

Application deadline: 1 August 2017

We are happy to inform you that the report from the XII^th Session of the IOCCP Scientific Steering Group has been published. You can read and download the report in PDF from our site HERE.

The report summarizes the current status and future plans related to IOCCP's coordination activities for each of our themes. We hope that you will find the report informative and many of you will become involved in the activities that the SSG planned for the months to come. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions and comments.

On behalf of the Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT) scientific community, we are proud to announce the release of SOCAT Version 5! SOCAT is a synthesis activity by the international marine carbon research community (>100 contributors). SOCAT version 5 has 21.5 million quality-controlled, surface ocean fCO₂ (fugacity of carbon dioxide) observations from 1957 to January 2017 for the global oceans and coastal seas. Calibrated sensor data are also available. Automation allows annual, public releases of SOCAT. The SOCAT data is discoverable, accessible and citable. SOCAT enables quantification of the ocean carbon sink and ocean acidification and evaluation of ocean biogeochemical models. Celebrating its 10^th anniversary in 2017, SOCAT represents a milestone in biogeochemical and climate research, and in informing policy.

On 8-10 February 2017, Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Panels for Physics & Climate (OOPC), Biology & Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry (IOCCP), and the Ocean Research Coordination Network (Ocean RCN) co-organized a workshop on "Implementation of Multi-disciplinary Sustained Ocean Observations (IMSOO)".

We would like to inform you that the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Global Carbon Project (GCP) established a Scientific Partnership Agreement in April 2017. The signed partnership aims to advance our knowledge of the carbon cycle and our ability to predict carbon sinks and sources in the future. 

We would like to let you know that the workshop report from the '2^nd Air-Sea Gas Flux: Progress and Future Prospects' workshop is now available to download from HERE. The scientific workshop, held in September 2016 in Brest, France, was organized by the OceanFlux Greenhouse Gases Evolution project as a forum to bring the international and interdisciplinary air-sea gas flux scientific community together to present recent advances, report results from key initiatives and importantly to identify new goals, challenges and opportunities.

The participants discussed among other things, the current state of the marine component of the global carbon observing system, and the need for the 'flux community' to use standard techniques, data formats and common tools, e.g. binning tools that are used and/or needed by communities measuring carbon dioxide fluxes (Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas - SOCAT) and nitrous oxide/methane fluxes (MarinE MethanE and NiTrous Oxide - MEMENTO).