SOCCOM and the real-time transformation of ocean biogeochemistry: a community partnership


Session ID#: 36286

Session Description:
The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observation and Modeling (SOCCOM) project is an NSF-sponsored initiative to transform our understanding of the Southern Ocean through a combination of innovative float-based observations and high-resolution modeling. The goal of the Town Hall is to inform the oceanographic community about SOCCOM progress, facilitate community participation in the growing global biogeochemical (BGC) Argo observing network, and consider plans for the future.

Topics to be discussed will include:

1.  SOCCOM Research Discoveries

- Wintertime measurements and the seasonal cycle of carbon, oxygen, nitrate and chlorophyll
- Changing biogeochemical budgets and the role of the ocean in climate and supporting marine resources
- Seeing the future more clearly by validating and improving ocean biogeochemistry in earth system and climate models


2.  Global and Regional Ocean Biogeochemistry from floats

Opportunities to invest, expand and illuminate by deploying BGC-sensored floats, including:

- Sustaining Southern Ocean BGC-Argo
- Southern Hemisphere subtropical gyres
- Tropical Pacific Carbon Variability and Change (TPOS2020)

3.  Participating in Southern Ocean BGC-Argo and expanding global BGC-Argo

A quick overview of SOCCOM-compatible biogeochemical Argo float purchasing, deployment, calibration & validation, and data management

Primary Contact:  Roberta M Hotinski, Princeton University, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
Presenters:  Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kenneth S Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Lynne D Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Stephen Riser, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Matthew R Mazloff, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Roberta M Hotinski, Princeton University, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
Cross-Topics:
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OC - Ocean Change: Acidification and Hypoxia
 

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