2003

• 7-10 January, Paris, France
  International Open Science Conference "OCEANS: Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Analysis", co-sponsored by IGBP and SCOR
  Contact: SCOR Secretariat, scor@dmv.com or IGBP Secretariat, Wendy Broadgate. 
  This conference is designed to assist the development of a new ten-year international, integrated research project focusing on ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystem dynamics in the context of the Earth System and Global Change. You are warmly encouraged to visit the Conference website at http://www.igbp.kva.se/obe/
  as of 20 August 2002
  
  

• 7 January, Toulouse, France
  4th North Atlantic Synthesis Group Meeting
  Contact: Véronique Garçon, LEGOS/GRGS/CNRS, 18 av. Edouard Belin, 31055 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE - Tel. (33) 56 133 2957
  as of 4 December 2002
  
  

• 20-24 January, Punta Arenas, Chile
  18^th SC-IGBP Meeting
  Contact: Clemencia Widlund, IGBP Secretariat or Roger Hanson, JGOFS International Project Office, SMR, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel: +47 555 84244, Fax: +47 555 89687
  as of 13 November 2002
  
  

• 27-29 January, MARUM, Bremen, Germany
  PANGAEA-JGOFS Data Management Workshop
  Contact: Bernard Avril, JGOFS International Project Office, University of Bergen, Post Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel.: +47 5558 4249, Fax: +47 5558 9687
  as of 13 November 2002
  A short Report prepared after this workshop is now available.
  as of 28 February 2003
  
  

• 24-25 February 2003, Goa, India
  International Workshop on Biogeochemical Processes in the Northern Indian Ocean
  Contact: Venugopalan Ittekkot, Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), University of Bremen, Fahrenheitsstrasse - 1, D-28359 - Bremen, GERMANY, Tel. +49 421 23800 21, Fax. +49 421 23800 30
  as of 5 December 2002
  
  

• 3-7 March 2003, UNESCO HQs, Paris, France
  17^th Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
  Contact: Peter Pissierssens, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, FRANCE or  Bernard Avril, JGOFS International Project Office, University of Bergen, Post Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel.: +47 5558 4249, Fax: +47 5558 9687
  as of 13 November 2002
  
  

• 13-15 March 2003, BODC, Merseyside, UK
  Data Management Task Team Meeting
  Contact: Margarita Conkright, Ocean Climate Laboratory, E/OC5, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. Tel.: +1 301 713 3290 ext 193, Fax: +1 301 713 3303 or Bernard Avril, JGOFS International Project Office, University of Bergen, Post Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel.: +47 5558 4249, Fax: +47 5558 9687
  as of 11 November 2002
  
  

• 7-11 April 2003, Nice, France
  European Geophysical Union (EGS/EUG) / American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly
  Contact: EGS Office, EGU Office or AGU Member Service Center 
  During the forthcoming 2003 EGU / AGU Joint Assembly, several special sessions are dedicated to themes related to JGOFS:
  BG1.04 Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter in marine and freshwater environments -- Rochelle-Newall E., McKnight D., Carlson C. / BG1.05 Metabolic balance of biogeochemical fluxes in the global ocean. Perspectives and problems -- Rivkin R., Legendre L., Robinson C. / BG1.06 Coastal biogeochemistry and its response to anthropogenic perturbations: inputs, gas exchange, carbon and nutrient cycling -- Gattuso J., Frankignoulle M., Thomas H., Smith S. / BG3.03 Response of marine organisms and ecosystems to global environmental change -- Riebesell U., Karl D., Gattuso J. / CL11.18 The Southern Ocean's role in present and past climate -- Gersonde R., Tréguer P., Schofield O. / OS10 Open Session on the Biogeochemistry of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle -- Follows M., Koeve W. / OS11 Eddy and frontal scale processes in ocean biogeochemistry: observations and models -- Mémery L., McGuillicuddy D., Williams R. / OS12 Iron resources and oceanic nutrients: advancement of global environment simulations -- De Baar H., Lancelot C., Maier-Reimer E.
  as of 13 November 2002
  
  

• 4 May, Washington DC, USA
  18^th JGOFS Scientific Steering Committee Meeting
  Contact: Roger Hanson, JGOFS International Project Office, SMR, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel: +47 555 84244, Fax: +47 555 89687
  as of 14 January 2002
  
  

• 5-8 May, Washington DC, USA
  Final JGOFS Open Science Conference
  Contact: Roger Hanson, JGOFS International Project Office, SMR, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel: +47 555 84244, Fax: +47 555 89687 or Ken Buesseler, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, WHOI, MS 25, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA, Tel: +1 508 289 2309 Fax: +1 508 457 2193
  as of 14 January 2002
  
  

• 19-24 June 2003, Banff, Canada
  3^rd IGBP Congress
  Contact: Clemencia Widlund, or Charlotte Wilson-Boss, IGBP Secretariat
  as of 13 November 2002
  
  

• 24-27 September 2003, Bergen, Norway
  JGOFS Executive Meeting
  Contact: Roger Hanson, JGOFS International Project Office, SMR, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel: +47 555 84244, Fax: +47 555 89687
  
  

• 10-12 November 2003, Nagoya, Japan
  NPSG meeting
  Contact: Aleksandr Bychkov, and Toshiro Saino
  as of 22 August 2003
  
  

• 8-10 December 2003. Liverpool, UK
  SCOR/IGBP Meeting on Data Management for Marine Research Projects.
  Contact: Roy Lowry, Edward Urban or Wendy Broadgate.

  
  

2002

• 29-30 January, Washington DC, USA
  Data Management Task Team Meeting
  Contact: Margarita Conkright, Ocean Climate Laboratory, E/OC5, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. Tel.: +1 301 713 3290 ext 193, Fax: +1 301 713 3303
  as of 10 October 2001
  The report for this meeting is is now available within the International JGOFS Report No. 37, entitled "Data Management Task Team Meeting Minutes, January 2002 & June 2000" edited in August 2002.
  as of 28 February 2003
  
  

• 11-15 February 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  During the forthcoming 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting organised by AGU and ASLO, special sessions or meetings are sponsored by JGOFS for the SOSG (OS04. The Cycle of Carbon in the Southern Ocean", chaired by Paul Tréguer, Ulrich Bathmann,  Tom Trull, Phillip Boyd, and Stéphane Blain), the EPSG (Robert Le Borgne) and the NASG (Véronique Garçon). Other sessions might be of interest to JGOFS Scientists.
  as of 29 November 2001
  
  

• 16-17 February 2002, Honolulu, HI, USA
  SOSG Synthesis Workshop: "The Cycle of Carbon in the Southern Ocean"
  Contact: Paul Tréguer and Ulrich Bathmann.
  A short Report prepared after this SOSG Meeting is now available
  as of 21 March 2002
  
  

• 16-18 April, Southampton, UK
  Continental Margin Task Team Workshop on Subpolar Regions
  Contact: Jonathan Sharples, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom. Tel. +44 23 8059 649; Fax +44 23 8059 3059
  as of 29 November 2001
  
  

• 22-26 April, Nice, France
  During the forthcoming European Geophysical Society 27^th General Assembly, a special session "OA8. Biogeochemistry of the carbon cycle of the Atlantic Ocean", chaired by  W. Koeve, J. Aiken and V. Garçon is sponsored by JGOFS for the NASG. Other sessions might be of interest to JGOFS Scientists.
  as of 08 October 2001
  
  

• 24-27 June, EU-JRC, Ispra, Italy
  Joint Workshop entitled "Global Ocean Productivity and the Fluxes of Carbon and Nutrients: Combining Observations and Models" organized by the Global Synthesis Working Group and JGOFS/GAIM Task Team, in Ispra, June 2002.
  Contact: Reiner Schlitzer and Patrick Monfray.
  A short Report prepared after this Modelling workshop is now available.
  as of 16 July 2002
  
  

• 28 June, EU-JRC, Ispra, Italy
  Data-Rescue / Capacity-Building Meeting
  Contact: Bernard Avril or Margarita Conkright
  as of 16 June 2002
  A short Report prepared after this "Data Rescue" Meeting is now available
  as of 21 March 2002
  
  

• 17-19 September, Orono, ME, USA
  Equatorial Pacific Synthesis Meeting and Workshop
  Contact: Robert Le Borgne, Centre IRD, B.P. A5, F-98848 Nouméa Cedex, Tel. +33 4 9104 1657, Fax. +33 4 9104 1635, FRANCE; Fei Chai, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5741, USA, Tel. +1 207 581 4317, Fax. +1 207 581 4388
  as of 29 November 2001
  A short Report prepared after this workshop is now available.
  as of 28 October 2002
  
  

• 23-25 September, Concepción, Chile
  17^th JGOFS Scientific Steering Committee Meeting
  Contact: Roger Hanson, JGOFS International Project Office, SMR, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY. Tel: +47 555 84244, Fax: +47 555 89687
  as of 18 December 2001
  The official, approved minutes from the 16^th JGOFS SSC meeting (Amsterdam, July 2001) are now on-line.
  as of 17 October 2002
  
  

• 1-2 October, Sapporo, Japan
  North Pacific Synthesis Group Meeting and Symposium for the North Pacific synthesis
  Contact: Toshiro Saino, Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chigusa-Ku, Nagoya 464-8601, JAPAN, Tel. +81 52 789 3487, Fax. +81 52 789 3436
  as of 29 November 2001
  
  

• late Fall, Sidney, B.C., Canada
  North Pacific Synthesis Group editorial meeting for an issue of the Journal of Oceanography on JGOFS NP synthesis.
  Contact: Toshiro Saino, Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chigusa-Ku, Nagoya 464-8601, JAPAN, Tel. +81 52 789 3487, Fax. +81 52 789 3436
  as of 29 November 2001
  
  

• 18-22 November 2002, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  "World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and Beyond" Conference
  Contact: WOCE International Project Office, Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK, Tel: +44 2380 596789, Fax: +44 2380 596204, woceipo@soc.soton.ac.uk
  as of 29 November 2001
  
  

• 25-27 November 2002, Brussels, Belgium
  Colour of Ocean Data: a symposium on oceanographic data and information management with special attention to biological data
  Contact: c/o Edward Vanden Berghe, The Colour of Ocean Data, Vismijn, Pakhuizen 45-52, 8400 Oostende, Belgium, Fax: +32-59-34 21 31
  as of 03 October 2002
  
  

• 4-6 December, Washington DC, USA
  Continental Margin Task Team Workshop for the Global Synthesis of the 5 Regional Syntheses
  Contact: Larry Atkinson, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0276, USA, Tel. +1 757 683 4926, Fax. +1 757 683 5550; Renato Quiñones, Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, CHILE, Tel. +56 41 203861, Fax. +56 41 256571
  as of 29 November 2001