Applications are now welcome for the 7^th International Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Summer School which will take place on 23^rd July - 4^th August 2018 in Cargèse, Corsica, France. The SOLAS Summer School brings together over 70 students and 15 world-leading international scientists, in a variety of fields, for a combination of lectures and practical workshops. It aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the nature of ocean-atmosphere interactions and how to link ocean-atmosphere interactions with climate and people. It allows doctoral students and early-career researchers to see how their work fits into the broad canvas of SOLAS, and global change research more generally.

Deadline for applications: 15 November 2017

On behalf of the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we would like to invite you to submit nominations of experts for consideration as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, or Review Editors for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC. The composition of the group of Coordinating Lead Authors and Lead Authors for a chapter of the Assessment Report will represent a range of views, expertise, gender, and geographical representation, ensuring appropriate representation of experts from developing and developed countries and countries with economies in transition. Please note that the work on the preparation of the reports will be conducted in English.

The deadline for upload of all nominations is Friday 27 October 2017 (midnight GMT + 1). Nominations received after the deadline will not be accepted. 

We would like to announce that the Organizers of OceanObs’19 are seeking experts to join its Program Committee (PC), which will shape the agenda and outcomes of the conference set for September 16-20, 2019 at the Honolulu Convention Center, in Honolulu, HI, USA. Nominations or self-nominations are welcome for OceanObs’19 program committee members until October 15, 2017. Please fill out the linked form and submit a one-page CV of the nominee to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

We would like to point your attention to the Big Ocean Button Challenge, an app competition sponsored by the XPRIZE Ocean Initiative, to advance development in ocean data sets in categories such as Fishing, Shipping and Trade, Ocean Acidification, Public Safety and Exploration. There are 20 amazing submissions that are now competing for $100,000 in prizes and XPRIZE is asking us to help them decide the winning solutions. Please visit the Big Ocean Button Challenge page to view the apps and cast your vote: https://herox.com/bigoceanbutton. You are encouraged to vote for the mobile app that best unlocks ocean data for public or private benefit, ideally while supporting responsible use and protection of our ocean. The Big Ocean Button Challenge is a smaller competition held as part of the XPRIZE Ocean Initiative efforts which started in 2010 with a call to develop 5 Ocean focused XPRIZE competitions by 2020.

Voting for the Big Ocean Button Challenge will remain open until 5pm PST on October 19^th and the winners will be announced early in 2018.

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.

The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) International Project Office (IPO), located at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, is searching for an Executive Director for the period of February 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020. The Executive Director is assisted by Project Officers based at GEOMAR and at Xiamen University, China. The IPO supports the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in implementing the SOLAS 2015-2025 Science Plan and Organisation. This is a full-time position.

Deadline for applications is 15 November 2017. For details of the position and application requirements please see our jobs site HERE.

SCOR held its 2017 Annual Meeting last week in Cape Town, South Africa, celebrating the 60^th anniversary of SCOR. An important feature of every SCOR annual meeting is consideration of proposals for new SCOR working groups. The proposals are reviewed by national SCOR committees, partner organizations, and others before the annual meeting and a significant portion of time at the meeting is devoted to discussing the proposals. This year three proposals were considered timely, relevant to SCOR and achievable using a SCOR working group approach.

IOCCP as Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Biogeochemistry Expert Panel is happy to announce the release of GOOS Biogeochemistry Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) Specification Sheets version 2.0! The 2017 revision is the result of GOOS-wide dedicated efforts to better harmonize the EOV and associated concepts across all disciplines: physics & climate, biogeochemistry, biology & ecosystems; and to align the EOVs closer with the corresponding Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) developed by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS - see the 2016 GCOS Implementation Plan for details).

You can download the updated Biogoechemistry EOV Specification Sheets from our site HERE, and access the most recent versions of all GOOS EOVs from this site: www.goosocean.org/eov