As part of the UK NERC BIO-Carbon research programme, and with the support of the MASTS Marine Biogeochemistry Forum, we are delighted to announce an international data workshop on the role of biology in helping the ocean store carbon.
The hands-on workshop will bring together scientists from around the world, to pool data on key processes and to determine how we should go about capturing those processes in the next generation of climate models. A major aim of the workshop is to bring modellers, observationalists and experimentalists together to co-design roadmaps for how this should happen.
The workshop will focus on the following 10 themes, identified as key gaps in our understanding:
- calcification and the rain ratio
- plankton community structure
- phytoplankton growth and micronutrients
- the microbial loop and solubilization
- plankton respiration
- zooplankton processes
- particle characteristics & ballasting
- particle fragmentation & aggregation
- the active flux
- the physical circulation
Applications will follow later this year. However, we would already welcome expressions of interest to attend, particularly if you are interested in leading one of the 10 themes. Please do so by 14 May. It is not necessary to have registered an expression of interest to apply to attend the workshop though. https://forms.office.com/e/JizgtqVwej
The following projects have already agreed to be involved: APERO (France), BIOPOLE (UK), EXPORTS (USA), OceanICU (EU), PICCOLO (UK), REMO (SCOR working group), SOLACE (Australia), TCA (Canada). We look forward to working with many of the community in Glasgow in 2026.
Scientific organising committee: Adrian Martin, Kelsey Bisson, Philip Boyd, Sarah Cryer, Lionel Guidi, Stephanie Henson, Hans Hilder, Julie LaRoche; Laura Lorenzoni, Mark Moore, Alex Poulton, Carol Robinson, David Siegel
