OCB: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program

OCB: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program

OCB Mission:to establish the evolving role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle, in the face of environmental change, through studies of marine biogeochemical cycles and associated ecosystems

Promote, plan, and coordinate collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities within the U.S. research community and with international partners

NACPNorth American Carbon Program

SOLASSurface-Ocean Lower AtmosphereStudy

OCCCOcean Carbon & Climate Change

IMBERIntegrated Marine Biogeochemistryand Ecology

OCB Science Objectives

1. To characterize quantitatively the marine biogeochemical cycles of carbon and related nutrient elements;

2. To explore interactions between these biogeochemical cycles and the dynamics of marine ecosystems, including food-web dynamics, and microbial processes as they impact biogeochemical cycling;

3. To determine the sensitivity of these cycles and associated interactions to changing environmental conditions including climate change and ocean acidification;

4. To produce more reliable predictions of the ocean's interactive role in global change;

5. To investigate the coupling of biogeochemical processes across ocean-atmosphere and ocean-land interfaces.

Data ManagementBiological and ChemicalOcean Data Management

OCB OfficeOCB Project Office

OCB SSCScientific SteeringCommittee

New & Future ProjectsU.S. single-investigator & medium-size research projects funded by NASA, NOAA, and NSF

Observing SystemRepeat Hydrography/CO2

HOT, BATS, CARIACOU.S. efforts in CarboOceanORION, …

OCB Program Structure












NSF Phil Taylor, Don Rice, Fred LipschultzNASA Paula BontempiNOAA Kathy TedescoCCSP Program Office Roger Hanson




Scott Doney (WHOI) Bob Anderson (LDEO)Ginger Armbrust (UW) Kathy Barbeau (SIO) Debbie Bronk (VIMS) Mary-Elena Carr (JPL)Richard Feely (NOAA) Dave Karl (U. Hawaii)Joanie Kleypas (NCAR) Steve Lohrenz (U. S Miss.) Wade McGillis (LDEO) Brent McKee (UNC)Galen McKinley (U Wisconsin) Mark Ohman (SIO) Tammi Richardson (U-SC) Chris Sabine (NOAA)





Director: Scott DoneyProgram Coordinator: Heather Benway

Current website: ocb.whoi.eduFuture: www.us-ocb.org





Biological & Chemical Ocean Data Management Office:

Current website: ocb.whoi.eduFuture: www.bco-dmo.org


The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

The Office is located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The Web-site is: www.bco-dmo.org

The Office is managed by:Robert Groman ([email protected])Cyndy Chandler ([email protected])David Glover ([email protected])Peter Wiebe ([email protected])

The BCO-DMO was created to serve PIs funded by the NSF Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections. It is a location from which marine biogeochemical and ecological data and information developed in the course of scientific research can easily be disseminated, protected, and stored on short and intermediate time-frames.

funded by NSF








Existing/Ongoing/New Elements• Repeat Hydrography CO2 Program• CO2 Volunteer Observing System Transects• Time-series (HOT, BATS, CARIACO, MBARI)• Satellite Remote Sensing• POGO Moorings & NSF ORION• Coastal Observing Networks

Observing Carbon Observing System

U.S. CLIVAR: CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program

Goal: Quantify decadal changes in heat, fresh water, CO2 & CFC inventory and transport

Approach: Reoccupy subset of WOCE era transects on ~10 year timeframe

Achievements: ~50% complete and on schedule to finish first global survey by 2012 (http://ushydro.ucsd.edu/)

PlannedCompleted

Pacific Northwest Endurance Array

•Cabled mooring line off Oregon•Uncabled mooring line off Washington•Highly capable sites at 500 m (upper slope), 80 m (mid shelf) and 25 m (inner shelf)•Less capable sites at 50 and 150 m•Gliders

PNW Endurance Array: Ecosystem Response to Climate Variability

•Sustained presence enables observation of interannual variability•High-power, high-bandwidth capability enables use of advanced sensors•Moored array provides regional context for interpretation

Existing/Ongoing/New Elements• Repeat Hydrography CO2 Program• CO2 Volunteer Observing System Transects• Time-series (HOT, BATS, CARIACO, MBARI)• Satellite Remote Sensing• POGO Moorings & NSF ORION• Coastal Observing Networks

Observing Carbon Observing System




New & Future ProjectsSingle to multi-investigator/ small to med-sized research projects funded by NASA, NOAA, and NSF




1. Leverage existing efforts in ocean carbon observing system

2. SSC is working on list of Research Priorities …examples are • Ocean acidification • Ocean margin biogeochemistry • Links between community structure and biogeochemistry (as

impacted by environmental change)

3. Exact scope of new projects will be determined by the research community - e.g. through proposals you submit to core programs

“Bottom-up” planning allows for flexibility as science evolves

New & Future ProjectsSingle to multi-investigator, small to med-sized* research projects funded by NASA, NOAA, and NSF

*Typical examples of recently NSF Funded, mid-sized projects, e.g. EDDIES, VERTIGO, MEDFLUX, E-FLUX; $ 2-4M and 5-10 Investigators

OCB Activities

1. Bring together researchers across disciplines through workshops and meetings & enhance communication and outreachOCB Summer Workshop, July 23rd-26th, Woods Hole

2. Data support – submission, management, and access (happening now!)

3. Maintenance of a catalog of OCB-related Project Profiles

Promote, plan, and coordinate collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities within the U.S. research community and with international partners

OCB Project Profiles

Catalogue of OCB-related projects• Coordinate new & planned field studies• Portal to data & science results• Voluntary, self-selected by PIs

Example Projects (under construction)Gruber: The role of mesoscale processes in controlling the upper ocean carbon

cycle in the coastal environment: an integrated study in Santa Monica Bay.

Marra and Vaillancourt: The control of photosynthetic quantum yield of phytoplankton by light intensity and diapycnal nutrient flux

McGillicuddy et al.: EDDIES: Eddy Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (Impacts of Eddies and Mixing on Plankton Community Structure and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Sargasso Sea)

Benitez-Nelson et al.: E-Flux: Eddy Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (Impacts of Eddies and Mixing on Plankton Community Structure and Biogeochemical Cycling in the North Pacific)

McKinley et al.: Collaborative research - The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget

OCB is already underway!Continued funding for CO2 survey, etc.

PIs encouraged to submit OCB-related proposals to NSF-core and related NASA & NOAA opportunities

NSF Chemical Oceanography (core program) pledge of $3M (FY2008) for OCB

NASA pledge of additional FY2008 funds for OCB

Data Management Office is up and running

•Community input is needed (now!) for OCB Research Priorities and Implementation (contact SSC member or agency rep)

•Near future – OCB Science Workshop (July 23rd-26th, 2007; Woods Hole; check web site)

Moving OCB Forward

The BCO-DMO data system will be designed to be interoperable with other data systems to facilitate discovery of and access to ocean science data and supporting documentation.

NACP

OCCC

• NACP has primary responsibility for land-ocean exchanges

• Both programs have responsibility for shelf processes

• OCCC has primary responsibility for shelf-open ocean exchanges

Coordinate NACP and OCCC to give a continuum from dry land to the open ocean

Flux 500/150m = 20% at ALOHA and 50% at K2More efficient transport of C to deep ocean at K2

in association with end of diatom bloom

Open = d#1Closed = d#2

Buesseler et al., submitted

Fz=F150(z/150)-b

ALOHA

K2

VERTIGO: VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean

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OCB: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program