News from the SOLAS IPO

Open Science Conference questionnaire
If you attended the 2009 SOLAS Open Science Conference and haven't already done so, please fill in the evaluation questionnaire. This will only take about 10 min and will provide us with valuable feedback that will help us to deliver an even better OSC in 2012!

Would you like to host the next OSC in 2012?
If you would like to host the next OSC, please contact us with your suggestion.

SOLAS textbook now available!
The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Processes textbook has just been published. The book covers the subjects that are taught as the SOLAS summer schools. It is available to order from the AGU website.

SOLAS Newsletter
The issue 10 of the SOLAS Newsletter will be available to download in the next few days.

Calls for proposals

SCOR Working Groups
Proposals for working groups are being accepted between now and 14 April 2010 and decisions will be made at the 2010 SCOR General Meeting (14-16 September 2010). More information.

Host for SCOR/IOC/IGBP 3rd Symposium on The Ocean in a High CO2 World
Bids to host the Symposium in 2012 should be submitted by 30 April 2010. See guidelines.

Ocean research infrastructure for 2030
NSF's Committee on "An Ocean Infrastructure Strategy for US Ocean Research in 2030" is seeking for input from the oceanographic community. Deadline 31 January 2010. More information

Opportunities to mention

NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography Training Programme at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). Deadline 1 February 2010.
This is a 10-month programme starting in August 2010, aimed at young researchers, particularly from developing countries. More information...

Microbial Oceanography Summer Course: Genomes to Biomes at the University of Hawaii, 31 May - 10 July 2010. Deadline 29 January 2010.
This course is offered to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an interest in marine microbiology and biological oceanography. More information...

1 or 2 berths available on Meteor cruise in August 2010
These are available for 1-2 people who would be interested in measuring carbon/nitrogen and oxygen on a transect between Newfoundland and the Azores. Contact the chief scientist Monika Rhein for more information.

SCOR Visiting Scholars-deadline approaching! (31 January 2010)
SCOR is seeking individuals interested in serving as SCOR Visiting Scholars in 2010 and institutions
in developing countries who are interested in hosting a Visiting Scholar.
SCOR's programme covers all areas of ocean science, but not observations or modelling. Read more.

Submit an abstract before...

20 January: International Polar Year Conference, Oslo, Norway, 8-12 June 2010.
See SOLAS website for a list of SOLAS-relevant sessions.

15 March: CACGP-IGAC summer science meeting "Atmospheric chemistry challenging the future", Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 11-16 July 2010.

Side events at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland...

GO-SHIP International Planning meeting, 21 February
The IOCCP-CLIVAR Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Panel (GO-SHIP) coordinates a global network of sustained hydrographic sections as part of the global ocean/climate observing system. More information on the meeting. Download GO-SHIP Strategy (1.1 MB).

GEOTRACES Launch Event, 24 February
GEOTRACES is launching a series of global ocean sections and is hosting this event to introduce its objectives and anticipated products to the wider oceanographic community. Read more

A bit of reading ...

Members of the SOLAS Japan network have recently published a special issue on the project SEEDS II (Second Subarctic Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study) in Deep-Sea Research II.

Oceanography Magazine Special Issue:
"The future of ocean biogeochemistry in a high CO2 world", vol. 22, number 4.

New IGBP book "Carbon and
Nitrogen Fluxes in Continental
Margins -A New Synthesis",
edited by KK Liu, L Atkinson, R
Quinones & L Talaue-McManus.