Ocean scientists, ocean observation specialists, industry representatives, service providers and users of ocean data & products from across the local, national & international operational oceanography community will gather in Halifax, Canada, for the GODAE OceanView Symposium, OceanPredict '19 (http://oceanpredict19.org/). The Symposium, aimed at advancing the science and application of ocean predictions, will take place on 6-10 May 2019. The event will present high-level speakers providing expert insight into the latest ocean research & development efforts, products and services and applications. OceanPredict'19 offers participants to engage in special science splinter meetings, poster sessions, booth exhibitions and discussions to explore and define the direction of future operational oceanography. As marine biogeochemistry observations are becoming increasingly needed to develop future ocean predictions, members of our community might be interested in contributing to one or more of the many themes selected for this symposium.

Abstract submission deadline: 7 December 2018.

The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO invite you to take part in a survey on ocean acidification research and observation data. Your answers to this survey will help trace where ocean acidification data is being collected, and where it is stored and served, to facilitate reporting on one of the indicators of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, 'Life below water'. SDG14 Target 3 on ocean acidification calls to 'minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels'. IOC-UNESCO is the custodian agency for the Indicator 14.3.1, which is used to measure the progress made to achieve the target. With the support from GOA-ON, and other experts in the field of ocean acidification, IOC-UNESCO has developed the SDG Indicator 14.3.1 Methodology 'average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations'. The Methodology provides the necessary guidance on which variables to report, how to conduct ocean acidification measurements and on how to report the collected information in a transparent and traceable manner.

You can take part in the survey by following the link HERE. Please submit your answers by December 20, 2018.

On behalf of an external review committee, we invite you to participate in a survey of the US GO-SHIP program. US GO-SHIP is an affiliate of international GO-SHIP, which performs global ship-based decadal surveys to collect, document, and store high precision and full depth hydrographic and biogeochemical data from the global ocean. The US CLIVAR and OCB programs are coordinating an external community review of US GO-SHIP to assess and provide feedback on program planning, progress, and opportunities to advance the scientific research of US CLIVAR and OCB.

This survey is one step of the process to collect community input. It is intended to gauge the effectiveness and value of US GO-SHIP operations, products and science and seeks to find opportunities to strengthen these in the future. We ask your input no matter your level of contact with US GO-SHIP, whether a casual observer and consumer of GO-SHIP data or science, a student who has gone on a cruise, a member of the Executive Committee, or anywhere in between. The survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete. Please fill out the survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GO-SHIP) by December 7, 2018.

We would like to inform you that the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), as part of its capacity-building programme, will be offering a number of shipboard fellowship opportunities on-board research vessels during 2019. Normally, specific calls are made a minimum of six months before the cruise begins. However, you are invited to submit your application already now because sometimes the POGO shipboard training programme is offered an available berth at shorter notice. We would also like to announce a call for applications for the first specific opportunity to join a 'South-North Atlantic Training Transect' (SoNoAT) cruise on board the RV Polarstern in June 2019. SoNoAT is a training survey that brings together International participants through a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), AtlantOS project, POGO and funded through the Nippon Foundation. There will be 25 scholarships available for participants, which include travel to the departure port, return flight from Bremerhaven, and all costs involved with living on board during the training.

The call for applications for SoNoAT will be open until 30 November 2018. Successful candidates will be informed by the middle of December.

We would like to let you know that the Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) published two new data publications. NDP-098 is a data synthesis product containing "A comprehensive global oceanic dataset of discrete measurements of helium isotope and tritium during the hygrographic cruises on various ships from 1952-10-21 to 2016-01-22 (NCEI Accession 0176626)." NDP-099 is a new data numeric package describing "Current calcite (CaCO₃) dissolution at the seafloor caused by anthropogenic CO₂ (NCEI Accession 0176672)."

We are thrilled to announce that IOCCP and EU BONUS INTEGRAL Project (Integrated carboN and TracE Gas monitoRing for the bALtic sea) are organizing a 10-day international training course on "Instrumenting our ocean for better observation:a training course on a suite of biogeochemical sensors." The course will be held on June 10-19, 2019 at the Sven Lovén Center for Marine Sciences, in Kristineberg, Sweden. Application process will open in mid-December 2018. Save the dates and stay tuned for updates on the course. 

Should you like to forward this information to your peers, please use the attached course flyer.

We would like to inform you that the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) has issued the 2019 Call for SCOR Visiting Scholars. Applications for the 2019 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 December 2018. Selections will be made by the SCOR Committee on Capacity Building by the end of January 2019. 

On behalf of the International SCOR working group #147, 'Towards comparability of global oceanic nutrient data' and the writing team led by Susan Becker (SIO-UCSD, USA), we are happy to inform you that they have completed the final draft of the updated version of the GO-SHIP nutrient manual entitled: "The precise and accurate determination of dissolved inorganic nutrients in seawater; Continuous Flow Analysis methods and laboratory practices." You can download the draft document from the IOCCP web site HERE. The public commenting will close at the end of this year, on 31 December 2018, at which time the comments and suggestions will be collated into a final published Manual.

Feedback from members of the scientific community will enhance the quality of this revised manual beyond the limits of the traditional closed peer review. Therefore, we invite you to send any comments/suggestions to both Susan Becker (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Malcolm Woodward (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by the end of 2018. The authors thank you in advance for your reviews.

The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2019 calendar year. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant workshops and activities such as: scoping workshops, working groups, synthesis activities, intercomparison activities, training or other activities. To get familiar with OCB's current slate of activities, PIs are strongly encouraged to view the OCB website before preparing and submitting a proposal. If you have questions about the relevance, timeliness, appropriate format, etc. of a proposed activity, please contact the OCB Project Office for guidance. Please submit workshop proposals electronically to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by December 3, 2018 for consideration by the OCB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Please see below for further details on format of supported activities, budgets and application requirements. 

We would like to let you know that the Biogeochemical-Argo program has issued its 5^th Newsletter which summarizes the program highlights and coming events. In this issue you can learn about: unanimous support from IOC-UNESCO Member States given to the proposal to incorporate biogeochemical sensors in the Argo array, Canada's financial commitment to support the implementation of the BGC-Argo program, past and upcoming workshops, and reports from successful float deployments, among other news.

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