We would like to inform you that the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) has issued the 2018 Call for SCOR Visiting Scholars. SCOR has sent 26 of its visiting scholars to 15 developing countries to teach and mentor since 2009. This year, five Visiting Scholars will be supported.

Applications for the 2018 SCOR Visiting Scholars Program should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15 November 2017.

In April 2017, SOLAS and IMBER have disbanded their two carbon working groups that, based on the Joint SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Implementation Plan, were charged with coordination and synthesis of ocean carbon research related to both: ocean surface and ocean interior. Seeking new science directions, SOLAS and IMBER proposed an open discussion amongst all and any programs interested in ocean carbon research. IOCCP, GCP, CLIVAR, WCRP C-challenge and SOLAS and IMBER representatives expressed interest in such discussion and an initial, scoping side-meeting during the ICDC10 in Interlaken was organized. The meeting was attended by 13 participants representing the above mentioned programs and was chaired by Nicolas Gruber, a former chair of the SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Working Group 2.

We would like to let you know that NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean CArbon Data System (OCADS), formerly CDIAC-Oceans, has just published two new data products. First, there is a new version of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory Global Ocean Surface Water Partial Pressure of CO₂ Database (LDEOv2016) available for download HERE. Second, OCADS/NCEI also published the Neutrally Averaged Radiocarbon Climatology data set by Casimir de Lavergne et al., from University of New South Wales, Australia, available HERE.