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• NASA Black History Month stories of our many stars who light the way for future generations
• How lab leaders can support students’ non-academic career plans
• I’m a lip-reading scientist: here’s how I can discuss science with you
• Moving beyond the business case for diversity
• Student loans nearly derailed my Ph.D. ambitions. I worry about other underrepresented students, too
• Eradicating extreme poverty would raise global emissions by *less than 1%* This paper highlights the absurd inequality in global carbon footprints!
• AGU Bridge Program - student applications due March 31
• An honest URGEoscience thread from Dr Vashan Wright
• The giant plan to track diversity in research journals (Nature): In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender — in an initiative that’s part of a growing effort to analyse researcher diversity around the world. Publishers say that this information, gathered and stored securely, will help to analyse who is represented in journals, and to identify whether there are biases in editing or review that sway which findings get published. Pilot testing suggests that many scientists support the idea, although not all.

• Location: in-person only in the Baltimore, MD area (exact venue TBD)
• Timing: 1-5 August 2022
• Participation: ~30 student enrollments
• Cost: Travel and room/ board are covered via an OCB grant for qualified participants*  
• Details on course elements: https://www.us-ocb.org/pace-mission-training-activity/
• SUBMIT APPLICATION BY 11 March 2022 (midnight ET) 

• Biological Pump response to changing climate – 2-part session
• Carbon capture and biogeochemical cycling in coastal waters- Blue carbon capacity beyond carbon burial in coastal wetlands
• Extreme ocean events
• Coastal observing to understand and predict coastal ecosystem changes
• Closing gaps in quantification of the ocean carbon sink

New paper from 2018 Ocean Acidification Principal Investigators meeting  

Spotlight on OCB-relevant opportunities in NASA ROSES22
NASA released its annual omnibus solicitation NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES 2022). Part of the solicitation, A.28 on Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science, includes  the following themes:
• Analyzing the Nitrogen Cycle from Space: Integrating Atmospheric Observations and Biogeochemical Models
• Ocean-Atmosphere Gas Exchange and Particle Deposition (points to new US SOLAS Science Plan)
• Wildfire Impacts on Ecosystems and Communities  
• Environmental and Climate Justice Using Earth Observations
• Processes Across the Land-Ocean Continuum
• Ocean Worlds: Research at the Interface
• Earth-Moon Connections in a Changing Climate

Notices of intent are due 10/14/22 and full proposals are due 11/16/22. See full list of ROSES-2022 opportunities here.

Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines Workshop 

• Postdoc position at Oldenburg University for 3 years. We are looking for applicants interested in biogeochemical modelling of the marine carbon cycle, who would like to focus on marine dissolved organic matter and microbial interaction networks. Application deadline March
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist position at LDEO of Columbia University in the Ocean Carbon Group. Open until filled
• Two vacancies for researchers in Baltic Sea oceanography (phys/bio/chem), based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Applications due by February 28. Aimed at early to mid career researchers, so is available to postdocs as well as more experienced researchers.
• Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography on oxygen and carbon, starting Spring or Summer 2022
• 3 RSMAS Postdocs at University of Miami in Marine Fisheries/Ecological Oceanography
• Modeling Marine Ecosystem Tipping Points at Princeton University. Apply by March 31
• 2 year Postdoc position offered funded by ANR-JCJC. Title of the project FIESTA: FInE scale dynamicS of diazoTrophs in the oceAn
• Post-doctoral position in ecological forecasting in the Prof. Dietze’s Ecological Forecasting Lab in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. This project will focus on expanding the capacity of our current carbon cycle forecast to a larger network of sites and bringing in additional data constraints into our data assimilation system.
• The Letscher lab at the University of New Hampshire is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the University of New Hampshire. Open until filled.

• 2022 US GOSHIP P02/Leg 1 (Apr-Jun) Cruise Opportunity
• PhD scholarship on nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide emissions from mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses at Southern Cross University
• New ORISE Masters or post-doc opportunity - Research Project: The focus of this research training opportunity is remote sensing
• 2022 REU opportunities at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER
• PhD and a PostDoc position with Sinikka Lennartz (PostDoc jointly with Dittmar lab at MPI MM/Uni Oldenburg) in my lab at Oldenburg University, both for 3 years. We are looking for applicants interested in biogeochemical modelling of the marine carbon cycle, who would like to focus on marine dissolved organic matter and microbial interaction networks. Deadline for applications is March 1.
• AGU Bridge Program - student applications due March 31

3/14 – Crossing Divisions in Biology – Opportunities in other NSF/BIO Programs (IOS, MCB, DBI)
4/11 – Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions                     
5/9 – CAREER Solicitation               
6/13 – You've Been Awarded an NSF Grant, Now What? 

March 14-15, 1:00pm to 5:00pm ET: Marine Biological Data Mobilization Workshop (virtual, register by January 30)
- jointly hosted by CIOOS, IOOS, MBON, OBIS-USA, and OTN and provides a Contribution to the UN Decade on Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the Marine Life 2030 Decade Action. You do not need to be registered for Ocean Sciences to attend this workshop.
This workshop is intended to be a hands-on, virtual workshop focused on mobilizing marine biological observation datasets to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) by helping data providers standardize their data using Darwin Core including species observations from any type of sampling methodologies (e.g. visual surveys, net tows, microscopy, fish trawls, imaging, `omics, acoustics, telemetry).

March 14-18, 2022: International Indian Ocean Science Conference (Goa, India). Hybrid format

March 14-19: Basic training course on ocean acidification at The Kristineberg Marine Research Station, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

March 16-19, 2022: ProSynFest2020: Celebrating the decades of research since the discovery of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Córdoba, Spain)

April 3-9: European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022 (virtual)
OCB-relevant Southern Ocean sessions: OS1.10 The Southern Ocean in a changing climate: open-ocean physical and biogeochemical processes and OS1.11 Under cover: The Southern Ocean’s connection to sea ice and ice shelves

*April 12-14: Ecological Forecasting Workshop (Joint OCB-US CLIVAR) (joint scoping workshop with US CLIVAR) (Woods Hole, MA) Abstract submission open until April 21

April 30-May 1: Gordon Research Seminar on Ocean Biogeochemistry - There is a limited number to grants available for PhD students and early career scientist. We encourage especially participants from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Japan and the USA to apply.

May 1-6: Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Biogeochemistry (Castelldefels, Spain)
There is a limited number to grants available for PhD students and early carrier scientist. We encourage especially participants from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Japan and the USA to apply.

May 9-12: Fourth ICES PICES Early Career Scientist Conference: Ocean sciences for the future we want (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada)

May 16-18: US CLIVAR Workshop on Future US Earth System Reanalysis - also a series of community webinars leading up to the workshop to elucidate scientific and technological drivers for the next generation of the Earth system reanalysis Abstracts open

May 16-20: 53rd Ocean Liege Colloquium GO2NE Global Ocean Oxygen Network Low oxygen environments in marine and coastal waters: Causes, consequences and solutions Call for travel grants application open!

May 17-20: 8th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces (Plymouth, UK) (hybrid event)

May 23-27: Living Planet Symposium 2022, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) (Bonn, Germany). This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions. Deadlines: abstracts 26 November 2021, registration 30 April 2022

May 30 - June 17: Supporting Marine Earth Observation Educators (online) Workshop - for educators who use satellite data in their teaching, mentoring, and training (free) - 25 hours over 3 weeks with different timings to accommodate different time zones. Apply by 3 April

June 16-18: OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Users Workshop (Woods Hole, MA)

June 13-17: Graduate Course on Speciation and Bioavailability of Metals, Organics, and Nanoparticles: A new edition of the postdoctoral course on Speciation and Bioavailability for PhD students and postdocs who are entering the field or want to deepen their knowledge of the subject

*June 20-23: OCB2022 Summer Workshop (Woods Hole, MA)

August 30 - September 1: NISAR Science Community Workshop (Pasadena, CA)

September 12-13: SAVE THE DATE Royal Society discussion meeting on 'Marine Microbes in a Changing Environment' to be held in the UK (precise location TBD)

September 13-16: 5th International symposium on the ocean in a high CO₂ world (Lima, Perú)

September 13-15: Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Science Conference (Utrecht, Netherlands)

September 22-24: Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium

September 25-29: SOLAS Open Science Conference (OSC) 2022  hybrid format (Cape Town, South Africa)

September 26-30: Metrology for Climate Action Workshop 2022 

October 2-7: OCEAN OPTICS XXV (Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam)

October 10-21: Chemical Monitoring of Coastal Environments Summer School (CS22) at the Ifremer Atlantic Center (Nantes, France) - apply by May 1 23h59 CEST