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twilight zone symposium on the biological carbon pump

18/9/2023

 
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​The JETZON UN Ocean Decade Program is organizing a symposium on the Biological carbon pump in the Ocean Twilight Zone at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Boston, USA) from September 18-21, 2023. 
At this symposium, preliminary results of the JETZON Biological Carbon Pump (BCP) benchmark initiative, launched earlier this year, will be presented. The BCP benchmark initiative aims to come up with numbers and uncertainties on the different components of the BCP to set out an authoritative benchmark to provide a key reference for both future change and for discussions around marine Carbon Dioxide Removal. 
The BCP was divided into five aspects, each with its own working group, lead and mentor: 
  • WG1 Gravitational component – Chloe Baumas (lead), Dave Siegel (mentor)
  • WG2 Mixing component – Mat Dever (lead), Philip Boyd (mentor)
  • WG3 Organism migration – Svenja Halfter (lead), Debbie Steinberg (mentor)
  • WG4 Biogeochemical constraint – Jamie Wilson (lead), Carol Robinson (mentor)
  •  WG5 Carbonate Pump – Griet Neukermans (lead), Luc Beaufort (mentor) 
Griet and Jordan will be presenting on behalf of WG 5 their work on the carbonate pump on Tuesday 19 September. 

symposium on advances in coccolithophore research

16/9/2023

 
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Griet Neukermans gave an invited talk entitled "Towards autonomous in situ observations of coccolithophores and the carbonate pump" at the Symposium on Advances in coccolithophore research in Bergen, Norway. 
This conference was also Barney Balch's last conference, as he is retiring in 3 weeks from now. It is thanks to Barney's many excellent field and laboratory studies on the optical properties of coccolithophores that we can map the concentration of coccolithophore calcite in the global ocean using ocean colour satellites. 
Thank you Barney for all your awesome contributions to the ocean colour community and enjoy your retirement!  

welcome jordan!

5/1/2023

 
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CarbOcean welcomes a new team member: postdoctoral researcher Jordan Toullec, joining us from France! 
Jordan is a biological oceanographer working on processes influencing the biological carbon pump, including phytoplankton biomineralization, zooplankton interaction (grazing and faecal pellets egestion) and marine snow aggregates formation. His PhD, obtained at the University of Western Brittany (UBO-LEMAR, France), was specifically focused on interactions between diatoms aggregates and zooplankton (Fig. 1) leading to marine snow formation and fragmentation processes in polar ecosystems (Fig. 2). His first postdoc at University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO-LOG, France) was on the influence of coccolithophore calcification (CaCO3) on copepod functional traits (Fig. 3).
Jordan started as a postdoctoral fellow at UGent in the CarbOcean team working on CaCO3 from coccolithophores as a component of the biological carbon pump (Fig. 4).

European marine board - fall plenary

26/10/2022

 
Griet Neukermans is giving a talk on "The Biological Carbon Pump: advances in observation technology" at the Fall Plenary meeting of the European Marine Board in Ostend (Belgium) on Thursday 27/10/2022. The Open Session is hosted by Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).  
The slides of all presentations are available here. 
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