We would like to invite you to join a 1st Anniversary Webinar of the EuroSea Project which will take place on 20 November 2020 at 15:00-17:00 CET. EuroSea is a flagship European Union project supporting the implementation of the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative. EuroSea helps stakeholders to co-design European ocean observing and forecasting services and products that deliver information and support decision-making in the areas of climate, coastal and maritime activities, and ocean health. This EuroSea stakeholder webinar will bring together the project’s funders and implementors as well as related European and global initiatives to discuss progress and look forward to a lasting legacy.

To view the detailed program and to register for the webinar follow this link: https://eurosea.eu/events/1st-anniversary-webinar-programme-registration/ 

We would like to inform you that the manuscript submission deadline for a Frontiers in Marine Sciences Research Topic "Energy, Water, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface" has been extended to 31 March 2021. The goal of this Research Topic is to showcase work that will lead to improved estimation and understanding of the fluxes that couple the atmosphere with the ocean, land and ice. This Research Topic will cover observational, theoretical and modeling aspects of fluxes of energy (heat and momentum), water, and carbon dioxide at the Earth’s surface, including at the air-sea, air-land and air-ice interfaces. Meghan Cronin (NOAA PMEL, USA) is the lead Topic Editor, and IOCCP Co-Chair Masao Ishii is among the other Topic Editors.

For more information on the scope of this Research Topic and types of articles accepted, please see the page at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12257/energy-water-and-carbon-dioxide-fluxes-at-the-earths-surface#overview

We would like to let you know that the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Observations Coordination Group has launched a new Ocean Observing System Report Card and introduced the rebranding of OceanOPS (previously JCOMMOPS) along with its first-ever 5-year Strategic Plan (2021-2025), phased with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development ("Ocean Decade"). The 2020 Ocean Observing System Report Card provides an update on the status of GOOS, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ocean observations, the advances in observing measurements and initiatives, and the connection with vital services resulting from the observations. 

You can read the full announcement on the GOOS website here. 

The Ocean Observing System Report Card is available at: www.ocean-ops.org/reportcard2020 

The OceanOPS 5-year Strategic Plan (2021-2025) is available at: www.ocean-ops.org/strategy 

We are excited to share with you the news that the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved a 53 million USD grant to a consortium of five top US ocean-research institutions to build a global network of 500 floats equipped with biogeochemical sensors. The new network, called Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC Array), will be a 5-year effort to extend autonomous biological and chemical observing globally. It builds on the two ongoing efforts to monitor the ocean using robotic floats: the international Argo programme and the US Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) program. You can find more information about the new project at: https://www.go-bgc.org/

For more information, see the press release.

GO-BGC Array is NSF’s contribution to the international Biogeochemical Argo network which aims to grow to a sustained array of 1,000 biogeochemical floats uniformly distributed around the world ocean, and spaced about 1,000 kilometers apart.

We are pleased to inform you that the Global Carbon Project (GCP) has published a comprehensive Global Nitrous Oxide Budget. The effort was supported by 57 contributors from 48 organisations and 14 countries. You can find relevant papers, highlights, data and additional resources at: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/nitrousoxidebudget 

The primary reference for Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2020 is:

Hanqin Tian et al. (2020). A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks. Nature, DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-2780-0

We would like to let you know that SCOR is receiving applications for the 2021 Visiting Scholar program. The Program supports Ph.D. level ocean scientists from developed and developing countries to teach short courses and provide extended on-site education and mentorship at developing country institutions. More information about the call, criteria for review and the application form can be found HERE.

Deadline for applications: 1^st December 2020. Applications should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Cc: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

If you're looking for some recent IOCCP-related peer-reviewed publications, remember that you can periodically check our website. Under our Documents page you will now find a few interesting reads published in the recent months, dealing with revised estimates of ocean-atmosphere CO₂ flux, estimates of anthropogenic carbon in the Arctic, biogeochemical measurements with autonomous platforms, updates to global synthesis products, and more. 

We would like to let you know about a number of ocean acidification related webinars taking place in the coming days. Already today, on Wednesday Sep 2^nd at 8:00 PM CEST, there will be a webinar on "Consistent ocean acidification messaging: the key to consistent understanding" run by US NOAA Ocean Acidification Programme. The webinar will help you learn about an effort to use consistent, visually-driven messaging to build understanding around the ocean acidification topic. You can register for the webinar here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/980534983192728847

Next week on 8-10 September, the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) will hold its Ocean Acidification Week - a virtual multi-day forum to highlight different aspects of ocean acidification research and initiatives. The OA Week will feature 10 sessions of around 90 minutes each. Eight of the sessions will be hosted by the GOA-ON regional hubs and will feature the latest OA research from around the globe. One session will feature overviews of some of the organizations that collaborate with GOA-ON, including GOOS, MBON, The Ocean Foundation, and The International Alliance to Combat OA. The final session, the Capstone Presentation, will reflect on the progress GOA-ON has made over the years, including some of the work discussed during earlier sessions of OA Week. You can find the detailed program, speakers and information on how to pre-register here: http://www.goa-on.org/webinars/OaWeek2020/webinar.php

We would like to let you know that the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities that will take place or begin during the 2021 calendar year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activities that can be conducted remotely (at least for the first half of 2021) are encouraged. Any proposed in-person activities should include contingency plans in case delays or cancellations are necessary. Please consult the OCB proposal guidelines prior to submitting your proposal. Proposals for the following OCB-relevant workshops and activities are solicited:

• Scoping workshops (~50-70 people) that bring together an appropriate body of expertise to foster discussions and build momentum within a specific OCB research area (previous OCB scoping workshops)
• Working groups (~8-12 members) to address targeted science goals/questions and develop products that benefit and engage the broader OCB community
• Synthesis activities to bring together existing data sets, model outputs, etc. to support and inform future research efforts
• Intercomparison activities to assess and build consensus on best practices (methodological, modeling, data analysis, etc.) for advancing OCB-relevant research
• Training activities (~30-50 participants plus instructors as needed) to build capacity in different areas of OCB research

We would like to let you know about two surface ocean CO₂ products which have recently been updated and are available online.

An updated Jena CarboScope ocean CO₂ flux product can be accessed from the website at https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/CarboScope/?ID=oc. CarboScope provides the temporally and spatially resolved estimates of the global sea-air CO₂ flux based on the SOCAT data set of pCO₂ observations, as presented in Rödenbeck et al., 2013. The product comprises seasonal, interannual, and day-to-day variations. This year's update involves the use of SOCATv2020 data and the additional year 2019, with further changes described in detail below.  

The latest update of the mapped surface ocean pCO₂ product (SOM-FFN) can be accessed from the NCEI OCADS website at https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/oceans/SPCO2_1982_present_ETH_SOM_FFN.html. The latest update of the product consists of monthly maps from January 1982 through December 2019 using the latest release of the SOCAT data set (SOCATv2020, Bakker et al 2016, Sabine et al 2013). In addition to previous versions of this product, air-sea fluxes are now calculated using the ERA 5 reanalysis winds (Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2017). The product will now further be updated annually.