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Toward a Standard, User-Friendly Chemical Speciation Model for Seawater and Estuarine Waters
David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Simon L Clegg, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom and Sylvia Gertrud Sander, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
CLIVAR—Climate and Ocean: The Next 10 Years of CLIVAR Science as Part of the World Climate Research Programme
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, Matthew Collins, University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and Tony Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Distributed Biological Observatory in the Pacific Arctic: A Community Status Report
Jacqueline M Grebmeier, Univ MD Center Enviro Science, Solomons, United States, Karen E Frey, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, Lee W Cooper, Univ MD Center Enviro Science, Solomons, MD, United States, Sue E Moore, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Robert S Pickart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Takashi Kikuchi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Innovative Graduate Curriculum in Limnology and Oceanography
Kathryn M Schreiner, University of Minnesota Duluth, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Duluth, United States, Rachel Horak, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, United States and Robert Sterner, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
PACE: NASA's Next Generation Ocean Color Satellite Mission Town Hall
Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Paula S Bontempi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
Synoptic Arctic Survey: A Fundament for Future Arctic Research
Øyvind Paasche, Bergen Marine Research Cluster, Bergen, Norway, James H Swift, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, United States, Leif G Anderson, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jacqueline M Grebmeier, Univ MD Center Enviro Science, Solomons, United States, Takashi Kikuchi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Eddy C Carmack, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada, Melissa Chierici, Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø, Norway, Kathleen Crane, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Carin J Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Amalia A Almada, NOAA, National Ocean Service, DC, DC, United States, Are Olsen, University of Bergen, Inst. of Geophysics, Bergen, Norway and Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
The CSIRO Cuts and Ocean Research in Uncertain Times
Jonathan M Lilly, Theiss Research, La Jolla, CA, United States, William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States, Joseph H Lacasce, University of Oslo, Meteorology and Oceanography, Oslo, Norway and Clark Richards, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Benefits and Challenges of Diurnal (Hourly) Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Science and Applications
Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Maria Tzortziou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States
MPOWIR – Past, Present and Future
Colleen B Mouw, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Sonya Legg, Center for Ocean Leadership at UCAR, Boulder, United States and Sarah Clem, Duke University, Durham, United States
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) Coastal and Inland Water Remote Sensing Town Hall
Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, United States, Liane S Guild, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States and William Turner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, United States
Implementing Basin Scale In Situ Ocean Observing Systems (OOS): Enhancing the Efficiency and Overall Information Content of Integrated OOS for the Atlantic (EU Project AtlantOS), the Southern Ocean (SOOS, OOI, SOCCOM), the Pacific (TPOS2020), the Pan-Arctic (SAON), and the Indic (IndOOS)
Jay Pearlman, FourBridges, Port Angeles, WA, United States, Martin Visbeck, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Louise Newman, SOOS IPO, Hobart, Australia, Michael Patterson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, US CLIVAR Project Office, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert A Weller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Albert S Fischer, UNESCO Paris, IOC, Paris Cedex 15, France and Roger Proctor, University of Tasmania, Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Oh, the Places We'll Go! Exploring the Ocean with Technology
Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, United States, William Douglas Wilson, University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, Richard W Spinrad, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, James G Bellingham, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States, Victor Zykov, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo alto, CA, United States and Jyotika I Virmani, X PRIZE Foundation, Playa Vista, CA, United States
A holistic discussion on the impacts of seawater desalination on the marine environment: research, monitoring and the connection to plant operation
Nurit Kress, IOLR, Haifa, Israel, Nadine Heck, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Ilana Berman-Frank, Bar Ilan University, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Ramat Gan, Israel
Exploring Ocean Indicators: Coordinating Efforts to Better Study, Monitor, and Predict Ocean States, Changes, and Processes
Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Eric J Lindstrom, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Katy Hill, GCOS/GOOS/WCRP Ocean Observations Panel for Climate
Smithsonian's MarineGEO: A Global, Collaborative Network to Document Change in Coastal Marine Biodiversity and Its Role in Ecosystem Resilience
Maria Murray, Smithsonian Institution, MarineGEO, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States and J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States
Southern Ocean Town Hall: SOCCOM and Other Progress
Roberta M Hotinski1, Jorge L Sarmiento1, Lynne D Talley2, Kenneth S Johnson3, Stephen Riser4, Joellen L Russell5 and Heidi M Cullen6, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States(3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States(4)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States(5)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States(6)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
The European Union-Canada-United States of America Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance: Implementing the Galway Statement—Progress, Next Steps, and Opportunities for Collaboration
Terry Schaefer, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Peter Heffernan, Marine Institute of Ireland, Chief Executive, Galway, Ireland, Craig McLean, NOAA (Retired), Silver Spring, United States, James Gavigan, Delegation of the European Union to the United States, Minister-Counselor Research and Innovation and Karen Davison, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Oceanography and Climate Branch, Ottawa, Canada
Diapycnal Mixing in the Ocean: Newly Available Data and Parameterizations from the Climate Process Team
Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Jonathan D Nash, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
The Future of Biogeochemical Ocean Time Series
Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Laura Lorenzoni, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Susanne Neuer, Arizona State University, School of Ocean Futures, Tempe, United States, Michael W Lomas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States and Douglas Wallace, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada
Update and Status of the Arctic-COLORS (Arctic-COastal Land Ocean interactions) NASA Field Campaign Scoping Study
Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Maria Tzortziou, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States and Patricia Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Defining Priorities for NASA in Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry: 2017–2027
Anastasia Romanou, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Paula S Bontempi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
EarthCube's Oceanography and Geobiology Environmental 'Omics (ECOGEO) Research Coordination Network: A Community Focused on Identifying Technical Challenges and Developing Plans for Federated Cyberinfrastructure that Will Enable Ocean and Geobiology Environmental 'Omics Research
Elisha M Wood-Charlson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Bonnie L Hurwitz, University of Arizona, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, Danie Kinkade, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Mak A Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
GO-SHIP Update of the Current Decadal (2012–2023) Hydrographic Survey and Activities
Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Richard H Wanninkhof, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Miami, FL, United States and Martin Kramp, JCOMMOPS, IOC-UNESCO, Brest, France
Launch of the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
Raleigh R Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Edward R Urban Jr, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Michael J McPhaden, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Karen J. Heywood, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom and Rana A Fine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Essential Ocean Variables: A Common Focus for Sustained Global Ocean Observing
Albert S Fischer, UNESCO Paris, IOC, Paris Cedex 15, France, Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Toste S Tanhua, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Nicholas J Bax, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia and Samantha Elisabeth Simmons, US Marine Mammal Commission, Science Program, Bethesda, MD, United States
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Town Hall: Revealing the Past, Interpreting the Present, and Informing the Future
Margarita Conkright Gregg, NOAA/NODC--E/OC, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Eric A Kihn, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States
Ocean Sciences in the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)
John P Dunne, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, James C Orr, LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Peter J Gleckler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Anastasia Romanou, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Laurent Bopp, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Opportunities to Strengthen Your Science (and Proposals) using GEOTRACES Data
Robert F Anderson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Reiner Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Marine Geology, Bremerhaven, Germany, Alessandro Tagliabue, University of Liverpool, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States
Promoting OceanSTEM and Blue Economy Workforce Development
Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, United States, Bradley Moran, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Carlie Wiener, Schmidt Sciences, Palo alto, United States, Deidre E Sullivan, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA, United States and Drew Trent, Oceaneering, Houston, TX, United States
