Transcript OCB Program Structure

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
OCCC
NACP
SOLAS
IMBER
Ocean Carbon
& Climate Change
North American
Carbon Program
Surface-Ocean
Lower Atmosphere
Study
Integrated Marine
Biogeochemistry
and 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.
OCB Program Structure
Observing System
New & Future Projects
Repeat Hydrography/CO2
HOT, BATS, CARIACO
U.S. efforts in CarboOcean
ORION, …
U.S. single-investigator &
medium-size research
projects funded by NASA,
NOAA, and NSF
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
OCB Program Structure
Observing System
New & Future Projects
Repeat Hydrography/CO2
HOT, BATS, CARIACO
U.S. efforts in CarboOcean
ORION, …
U.S. single-investigator &
medium-size research
projects funded by NASA,
NOAA, and NSF
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
OCB Program Structure
NSF
Phil Taylor, Don Rice, Fred Lipschultz
NASA Paula Bontempi
NOAA Kathy Tedesco
CCSP Program Office
Roger Hanson
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
OCB Program Structure
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
Scott Doney
Ginger Armbrust
Debbie Bronk
Richard Feely
Joanie Kleypas
Wade McGillis
Galen McKinley
Tammi Richardson
(WHOI)
(UW)
(VIMS)
(NOAA)
(NCAR)
(LDEO)
(U Wisconsin)
(U-SC)
Bob Anderson
Kathy Barbeau
Mary-Elena Carr
Dave Karl
Steve Lohrenz
Brent McKee
Mark Ohman
Chris Sabine
(LDEO)
(SIO)
(JPL)
(U. Hawaii)
(U. S Miss.)
(UNC)
(SIO)
(NOAA)
OCB Program Structure
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
Director:
Scott Doney
Program Coordinator: Heather Benway
Current website:
Future:
ocb.whoi.edu
www.us-ocb.org
OCB Program Structure
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
Biological & Chemical Ocean Data
Management Office:
Current website:
ocb.whoi.edu
Future:
www.bco-dmo.org
The Biological and Chemical Oceanography
Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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.
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])
funded by NSF
OCB Program Structure
Observing System
New & Future Projects
Repeat Hydrography/CO2
HOT, BATS, CARIACO
U.S. efforts in CarboOcean
ORION, …
U.S. single-investigator &
medium-size research
projects funded by NASA,
NOAA, and NSF
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
Observing Carbon Observing System
Existing/Ongoing/New Elements
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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
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/)
Completed
Planned
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, highbandwidth capability
enables use of
advanced sensors
•Moored array provides
regional context for
interpretation
Observing Carbon Observing System
Existing/Ongoing/New Elements
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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
OCB Program Structure
Observing System
New & Future Projects
Repeat Hydrography/CO2
HOT, BATS, CARIACO
U.S. efforts in CarboOcean
ORION, …
Single to multi-investigator/
small to med-sized research
projects funded by NASA,
NOAA, and NSF
OCB SSC
OCB Office
Data Management
Scientific Steering
Committee
OCB Project
Office
Biological and Chemical
Ocean Data Management
New & Future Projects
Single 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
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
OCB Activities
Promote, plan, and coordinate
collaborative, multidisciplinary
research opportunities within the
U.S. research community and with
international partners
1. Bring together researchers across disciplines through
workshops and meetings & enhance communication and
outreach
OCB 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
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
Moving OCB Forward
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)
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.
Coordinate NACP and OCCC to give a
continuum from dry land to the open ocean
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
VERTIGO:
VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean
Buesseler et al.,
submitted
Open = d#1
Closed = d#2
K2
ALOHA
Fz=F150(z/150)-b
Flux 500/150m = 20% at ALOHA and 50% at K2
More efficient transport of C to deep ocean at K2
in association with end of diatom bloom