We are pleased to inform you about the call for applications for the 2024 SCOR Visiting Scholars Program, which is open to any scientists who have time available to spend teaching and mentoring in a developing country for two weeks or more. The overarching goal of this program is to inspire, motivate, and inform students and faculty at developing institutions while also building long-term and sustainable collaborations and capacity. These scholarships are not intended to directly support research, although collaborative research may be an outcome of a visit. Applications from all regions of the world are welcome and the visit can happen at any time between February 2024 and December 2024.

Applications for the 2024 SCOR Visiting Scholars Program should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 29 December 2023 (up to 23:59 UTC). For further details, please read the call for 2024 SCOR Visiting Scholars.

Motivated by the calls for more integrated ocean carbon research, two EU-funded projects ECOTIP and EU4OceanObs have been supporting since early 2023 a multidisciplinary group of researchers in convening a new working group activity around ocean carbon sequestration data synthesis and modelling in the Arctic. Building on the results of an open community survey which engaged over sixty experts in Arctic carbon observations and modelling, both senior and early-career researchers from across Europe, North America and Asia, on 18-19 October 2023 the group organized an online workshop which gathered over 30 attendees tasked with identifying and designing biogenic data products to advance ocean carbon sequestration modelling in the Arctic. The event was also supported by the IOCCP, as part of the efforts to strengthen the integration across the biogeochemical modelling and observing interface.

On behalf of the GLODAP Reference Group, and hundreds of seagoing oceanographers who tirelessly have collected data all over the ocean, we are happy to announce the publication of GLODAPv2.2023.

The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) data product provides access to quality controlled surface to bottom ocean biogeochemical data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon. GLODAPv2.2023 is an update of the previous version, with 23 additional cruises and includes measurements from more than 1.4 million water samples from the global oceans collected on 1108 cruises. The data for the 13 core variables have undergone extensive quality control, especially systematic evaluation of bias. The data are available in two formats: (i) as submitted by the data originator but updated to WOCE exchange format and (ii) as a merged data product with adjustments applied to minimize bias.

More details about GLODAP background as well as the v2.2023 release poster can be found here.