We are excited to announce that the Oostende Declaration in which the 100+ ocean experts and stakeholders call for concerted international and intergovernmental efforts to create a robust, resilient and sustainable surface ocean carbon observing system has been officially recognized as a commitment at the UN Ocean Conference 2025.

We would like to inform you that an international data workshop on the role of biology in storing carbon in the ocean has been announced. This workshop is organised as part of the UK NERC BIO-Carbon research programme, with the support of the Marine Biogeochemistry Forum from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). The workshop is planned to take place on 2-4 March 2026 in Glasgow (UK), immediately after Ocean Sciences 2026.

The workshop will bring together scientists from around the world, to pool data on key processes and to determine how we should go about capturing those processes in the next generation of climate models. A major aim of the workshop is to bring modellers, observationalists and experimentalists together to co-design roadmaps for how this should happen.

We are pleased to share that the POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme for 2025 is now open for applications. The deadline for applications is 27 April 2025 (23:59 CET).

The primary goal of the POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme is to strengthen sustained ocean observations and their applications, with a focus on training and capacity building to support a global ocean observation framework. Since its launch in 2001, the programme has been highly successful, awarding 200 fellowships to date.

We wanted to share an exciting news that an open-access book Chemical Reference Materials for Oceanography: History, Production, and Certification has now been published in the Springer Oceanography book series.

The book explores the history, production, and certification of reference materials for essential parameters in oceanography and provides a comprehensive understanding of them to readers.

The organizers of the OceanObs’29 Conference invite us to apply to its Program Committee, an exclusive leadership role that will directly shape the vision, themes, and outcomes of this landmark event. They seek a broad range of ocean knowledge-holders, including classical ocean observation experts and Early Career Professionals (ECPs), indigenous representatives, and thought leaders - spanning science, engineering, policy, and industry to guide this effort.

The OceanObs’29 Program Committee applications are open until 31 May 2025. It's important that marine biogeochemistry is adequately represented on the Program Committee and we hope that some of you will consider taking this opportunity to shape the next decade of ocean science and observations.

We would like to remind you that the call for SCOR working groups is open until 16 May 2025. The SCOR Secretariat invites proposals for new working groups to commence activities in late 2025. SCOR typically supports 1-3 new working groups annually, pending availability of funds and the outcome of the proposal review.

We are happy to inform you that the registration is now open for the “Wepal-Quasimeme Workshop on Quality Assurance for inorganic carbon system measurements in context of ocean acidification monitoring”. The in-person workshop will be held on 18-20 March 2025 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOC), UK.

IOCCP in close collaboration with our global partners, continues to foster the integration of efforts around quality assurance for inorganic carbon measurements with the global metrology systems so that those measurements are metrologically traceable to the International System of Units.

We would like to inform you about the upcoming webinar on "Advancements in Biogeophysical 4D reconstructions: New methods development and exploitation of existing products for scientific investigations" organised by SCOR Working Group 168 (4D-BGC) on 26 November 2024, at 12:00 pm CET.

During the OA Week on 18-22 November, the ocean biogeochemistry community will have a great opportunity to discuss the most challenging issues around ocean acidification. This year we’d like to specifically encourage you to participate in a community discussion on “Building capacity in physical chemistry for oceanography: how to address the emerging skills gaps”.