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Developing a "best practices" guide for ocean acidification research

On November 19-21, 2008, approximately 40 scientists from 10 countries met at IFM-GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany to establish an international agreement on best practices for ocean acidification research. The workshop was sponsored by the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA), the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB), and the Kiel "Future Ocean" Excellence Cluster. It covered seawater carbonate chemistry, experimental design of perturbation experiments, measurements of CO2-sensitive processes and data reporting and usage.

The participants agreed on the recommendations that would appear in a guide as well as on authors and timelines for drafting each section.
While this first workshop was kept necessarily small, the development of the best practices guide is meant to be an open community-wide activity. Interested experts are invited to visit the EPOCA web site (http://www.epoca-project.eu, click "Best Practices Guide" on the left) to review the presentations from the meeting, the timeline for drafting and reviewing the guide, and contacts. (December 1, 2008)

Recent Publications of Interest

Benway, H.M. and S.C. Doney. 2008. Ocean carbon cycling and climate impacts on marine ecosystems. EOS, Trans. American Geophys. Union, 89(47), 472. [pdf]

Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger, 2008. The CO2 air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp. [pdf]

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Project. 2008. SOCAT-2 Meeting Report, Paris, France (June 16-17, 2008). IOCCP Report No. 9. 39 pp. [pdf]

Schuur, E.A.G. et al. 2008. Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: implications for the global carbon cycle. Bioscience 58(8):701-714. [Abstract and paper are available from Bioscience]

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