2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Submitted by cchandler on January 26, 2010
City: 
Portland
State: 
Oregon
Country: 
USA
Start: 
Monday, February 22, 2010 (All day)
End: 
Friday, February 26, 2010 (All day)
Related Link: 
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/

From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century

Stewardship of marine resources in the 21st Century demands the development of predictive tools based on models and field observations. The challenge of developing these tools forms the theme of the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting.

This overarching theme emphasizes efforts to link observations and models to form superior predictions across multiple space and time scales. It encompasses research focusing on some aspect of observations, models, and also field or laboratory experiments that ultimately seek to enhance our predictive ability, as well as efforts focusing on education, outreach, and marine policy.

Ocean Sciences 2010 Meeting Web site >

Presentations by BCO-DMO staff members:

Sunday:  Workshop

SCOR WG-131: The Legacy of in situ Iron Enrichment Experiments - Data Compilation and Modeling - launch of the WG131 database

Philip Boyd (co-chair of this WG) and Cyndy Chandler (BCO-DMO,  Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office, http://www.bco-dmo.org/home, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) will host a workshop on February 21st 2010 (1400 - 1700 h) to launch the recently compiled database of  mesoscale open-ocean iron enrichment experiments from IronEX 1 to SEEDS II.  The launch of this database will take place on the Sunday prior to the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting at the Clackamas Room in the Marriott Hotel, Portland Downtown/Lloyd Center, 435 NE Wasco Street Portland, OR 97232, (a few blocks from the Ocean Sciences convention venue, www.marriott.com/pdxcl).
 
This relational database resides at BCO-DMO and will enable inter-comparisons of data between experiments conducted in the HNLC waters of the Southern Ocean, Equatorial and Subarctic Pacific.  We hope that this will stimulate exciting and novel opportunities for data synthesis and modeling, from 1-dimensional biological models through to complex 3-dimensional ocean biogeochemical models. The workshop will commence with presentations from Cyndy and Philip, followed by some feedback reports from some of the modeling community regarding the utility of this database.  We will then have a question and answers session, and will open the meeting to any scientists who wish to show a few summary slides on any ongoing modeling activities related to ocean iron enrichments and biogeochemistry.  Our aim is to use this launch as a platform for planning a modeling/synthesis workshop in 2011.
 
The database can be accessed prior to the meeting as follows:
text based access:  http://osprey.bcodmo.org/program.cfm?flag=view&id=10

or GIS interface  (some Iron Synthesis projects are compatible with this - others lack sufficient information)
http://mapservice.bco-dmo.org/maps-bin/global/map

select FeSyn  as the program name
and then find the project and cruise of interest (suggest trying SOIREE first as it has the most complete geographic data)

Please contact Philip (pboyd@alkali.otago.ac.nz) or Cyndy (cchandler@whoi.edu) if you have any further queries or would like to give a short presentation.

Monday:  session

MT15A-08. Incorporation of Semantically-enabled features into an Existing Oceanographic Data Management System.  P. West; C. L. Chandler; M. D. Allison; P. Fox; R. C. Groman; A. R. Maffei

Wednesday:  GEOTRACES launch

1145 – 1245   Public Launch of GEOTRACES     Room E143
GEOTRACES is an international study of the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes. While the primary objectives of GEOTRACES fall within the realm of chemical oceanography and marine geochemistry, it is anticipated that many areas of biological oceanography, physical oceanography, and paleoceanography will benefit from results of the GEOTRACES program. Therefore, the GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee wishes to invite the broader ocean research community to a townhall that will introduce GEOTRACES and celebrate the launch of its global field program. The townhall will consist of a brief talk introducing GEOTRACES, the scope of the field program as well as the anticipated products and the data system designed to make the results available. Anyone interested in participating in or using data from GEOTRACES is encouraged to attend. The event is scheduled for Room E-143 in the Oregon Convention Center from 11:45-12:45 on Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Boxed lunches will be provided.

Thursday:  session

IT45D-01. The Integrated Ecosystems Assessment Initiative - Enabling the Assessment of Climate Impacts on Large Marine Ecosystems: Bringing Informatics to the Forefront of Science Based Decision Support.  A. R. Maffei; P. Fox; S. Lawrence; C. L. Chandler