SOCCOM-Led Sessions at 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

July 19, 2017

Below is a list of sessions at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting(Link is external) that have been organized by SOCCOM members – please consider submitting abstracts and attending the meeting in Portland in February!

BN005: Biogeochemical Argo Science and Regional Profiling Float Studies including SOCCOM, NAOS, remOcean, INBOX and IOBioArgo(Link is external)


Primary Chair:  Kenneth S Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Herve Claustre, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

OM007: Modeling the Climate System at High Resolution(Link is external)


Primary Chair:  Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Eric Chassignet, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States

PC010: The Role of the Southern Ocean in the Global Carbon Cycle(Link is external)


Primary Chair:  Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Laure Resplandy, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Carolina Dufour, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Ralph F Keeling, University of California-San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

PL011: Transient Eddies, Stationary Meanders and Southern Ocean Circulation and Tracer Transport(Link is external)


Primary Chair:  Matthew W Hecht, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-chairs:  Carolina Dufour, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Adele K Morrison, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia

AI010: Southern Ocean air-sea exchange and mixed-layer processes(Link is external)

Primary Chair:  Martin S Hoecker-Martinez, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; University of Redlands, Physics, Redlands, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Daniel B Whitt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Sebastiaan Swart, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden

HE010: Response of the southern ocean, sea-ice and ice shelves to the changing climate(Link is external)

Primary Chair:  Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Marika M Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan Abernathey, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States

PO006: Understanding the differing roles of ocean ventilation and mixing on heat and carbon uptake(Link is external)

Primary Chair:  John P Krasting, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-chairs:  Michael Winton, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States; NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Ric Williams, Liverpool University, School of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Kirsten Zickfeld, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Burnaby, BC, Canada

PL009: The Driving Forces of the Ocean’s General Circulation(Link is external)

Primary Chair:  Ali Mashayek, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Lynne D Talley, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Center, Southampton, United Kingdom and Colm-cille, Patrick Caulfield, University of Cambridge, BP Institute/Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

T003: Impact of the Antarctic Ozone Hole on the Southern Ocean(Link is external)

Primary Presenter:  Anand Gnanadesikan, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States

Other Sessions of Interest:

AI007: Ocean Carbon Hot Spots: Biogeochemical cycling and anthropogenic carbon export in mode and intermediate water formation regions(Link is external)

AI008. Ocean salinity and its role in ocean dynamics and the water cycle(Link is external)

BN007: Biogeochemistry and Nutrients in open ocean waters: Sustainable Ocean Observations and Time Series Efforts(Link is external)

BN023. We shed light: Optical and imaging insights into the Biological Carbon Pump(Link is external)

HE001. Biological hot spots in icy waters: polynyas in a changing climate(Link is external)

HE004. Ice-Ocean Interactions and Circulation around the Antarctic Margin(Link is external)

HE007: Melting of glaciers, icebergs, ice shelves, and coastal permafrost and impacts on physical properties and biogeochemistry of the ocean(Link is external)

HE011. Similarities and differences of Ocean dynamics at both ends of the globe(Link is external)

IS010. New Platform and Sensor Technologies: Advancing Research, Readiness and Transitioning for Sustained Ocean Observing of Essential Ocean Variables(Link is external)

OC011. The ocean carbon cycle across(Link is external) timescales(Link is external)

OD006(Link is external): Real-Time Quality Control of Oceanographic Data Emerging Technologies and their Data QC Practices(Link is external)

OM004: Ensemble Modeling Approaches in Physical and Biogeochemical Oceanography(Link is external)

OM005. High-Resolution Ocean Modelling for Ocean-Ice Sheet Interaction Studies around the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets(Link is external)

PC009. The Ocean as a Mediator of Climate and Climate Change(Link is external)