39th SCOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Beijing, China SCOR Proceedings Volume 49 20-22 October 2009 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Wellington, New Zealand November 2013 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON OCEANIC RESEARCH November 2013 – September 2014 President: Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Peter Burkill Dr. Mark J. Costello (IABO) Mount Clogg Farm Leigh Marine Laboratory Shaugh Prior University of Auckland, Plymouth PL7 5HA PO Box 349 UNITED KINGDOM Warkworth 0941 E-mail: [email protected] NEW ZEALAND E-mail : [email protected] Secretary: Dr. Mary (Missy) Feeley Dr. Eugene Morozov (IAPSO) ExxonMobil Exploration Company P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology P.O. Box 4778 Russian Academy of Sciences GP8-896 36, Nahimovski prospect Houston, TX 77210-4778 Moscow, RUSSIA, 117997 USA E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Athena Coustenis (IAMAS) Past President: LESIA (Bat. 18) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fennel Observatoire de Paris-Meudon Baltic Sea Research Institute 5, place Jules Janssen Seestr. 15 92195 Meudon Cedex Rostock 18119 FRANCE GERMANY E-mail : [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Co-opted Members: Vice-Presidents: Dr. Wajih Naqvi Prof. Satoru Taguchi Director Department of Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography Soka University Dona Paula, Goa 403 004 1-236 Tangi-Cho, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577 INDIA JAPAN E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] SCOR Secretariat: Dr. John Volkman Edward R. Urban, Jr., Executive Director Marine Biogeochemistry Program College of Marine and Earth Studies CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Robinson Hall GPO Box 1538 University of Delaware Hobart Tasmania 7001 Newark, DE 19716 AUSTRALIA USA E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1-302-831-7011 E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Corina Brussaard Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ PO Box 59 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, THE NETHERLANDS E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0253-2808 INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON OCEANIC RESEARCH April 2014 Newark, DE USA Support for SCOR activities (including international project offices and in-kind support) in 2013 came from the membership contributions of national SCOR committees and from the following organizations and agencies: Agouron Institute Alfred P. Sloan Foundation British Oceanographic Data Centre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation (USA) Natural Environment Research Council (UK) Additional copies of this publication are available from: SCOR College of Earth, Ocean and Environment Robinson Hall University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 USA Tel: +1-302-831-7011, Fax: +1-302-831-7012, Internet: [email protected] This report is available in pdf format at http://www.scor-int.org. SCOR Proceedings, Volume 49 REPORT OF THE 41st SCOR EXECUTIVE GENERAL MEETING Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Opening Remarks and Administrative Arrangements, 1 1.2 Approval of the Agenda, 1 1.3 Report of the SCOR President, 1 1.4 Report of the SCOR Executive Director, 3 1.5 Appointment of an Ad Hoc Finance Committee, 3 1.6 2014 Elections for SCOR Officers, 4 2.0 WORKING GROUPS 4 2.1 Disbanded Working Groups, 4 2.2 Current Working Groups, 4 2.3 New Working Group Proposals, 7 3.0 LARGE-SCALE OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS 13 3.1 Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) Program, 13 3.2 Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project, 16 3.3 GEOTRACES, 20 3.4 Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), 22 4.0 OCEAN CARBON AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 24 4.1 SCOR/IOC International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), 24 4.2 Symposia on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, 26 4.3 Other Activities, 27 5.0 CAPACITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES 28 5.1 SCOR Committee on Capacity Building, 28 5.2 SCOR Visiting Scholars, 28 5.3 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations, 29 5.4 NSF Travel Support for Developing Country Scientists, 29 6.0 RELATIONS WITH INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 30 6.1 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 30 6.2 International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES), 32 6.3 Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), 32 6.4 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), 33 7.0 RELATIONS WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 34 7.1 International Council for Science, 34 7.2 Affiliated Organizations, 38 7.3 Affiliated Programs, 40 7.4 Other Organizations, 43 8.0 ORGANIZATION AND FINANCE 44 8.1 Membership, 44 8.2 Publications Arising from SCOR Activities, 44 8.3 Finances, 45 9.0 SCOR-RELATED MEETINGS 46 9.1 SCOR Annual Meetings, 46 APPENDICES Appendix 1 – Agenda, 48 Appendix 2 – Participants, 51 Appendix 3 – Proposal for a Working Group on Dissolved N2O and CH4 measurements: Working towards a global network of ocean time series measurements of N2O and CH4, 54 Appendix 4 – Proposal for a Working Group on Microbial Community Responses to Ocean Deoxygenation, 59 Appendix 5 – Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) Program, 62 Appendix 6 – Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Research (IMBER) Project, 66 Appendix 7 – Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), 90 Appendix 8 – GEOTRACES, 101 Appendix 9 – Post-Audit Financial Statement for 2012, 117 Appendix 10 – SCOR-Related Meetings (2012-2015), 118 41st SCOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Wellington, New Zealand 25-27 November 2013 _________________________________________________________________ 1.0 OPENING 1.1 Opening Remarks and Administrative Arrangements SCOR President Peter Burkill opened the meeting and introduced Diane McCarthy, the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She welcomed participants to the meeting, and noted that there were representatives from 13 different countries present. McCarthy wished participants a good visit and a chance to see the country. It is a special honor that SCOR is meeting at the Royal Society Headquarters. The Royal Society was founded almost 150 years ago. At its core is the National Academy of Scholars, elected by their peers. The Royal Society embraces all disciplines. It administers a large number of government grants, including the Marsden Fund, for “blue skies” research. The Royal Society promotes international research collaborations and administers memberships for international organizations. The Royal Society is a member body of the International Council for Science (ICSU), of which SCOR was the first interdisciplinary body. The next ICSU General Assembly, in 2014, will be held in Auckland for the first time. McCarthy finished by thanking SCOR for coming to the Royal Society. Julie Hall, a SCOR Nominated Member from New Zealand, welcomed everyone to Wellington and provided some logistical information. There would be a reception at NIWA after the first night of the meeting to make it possible for SCOR visitors to meet some local ocean scientists. Peter Burkill continued by honoring 6 scientists who had been involved in SCOR and had passed away since last year’s SCOR meeting: Eberhard Fahrbach, Carlo Heip, John Steele, Tore Vorren, C.S. Wong, and Mingyuan Zhu. Burkill briefly described how each individual had contributed to SCOR and called for a moment of silence. Afterward, everyone introduced themselves. 1.2 Approval of the Agenda Additions or modifications to the agenda as distributed may be suggested prior to approval of the final version. Peter Burkill asked if any changes to agenda were needed. No changes were requested. 1.3 Report of the President of SCOR Peter Burkill reviewed his activities as SCOR President since the SCOR General Meeting in October 2012 in Halifax, Canada, and gave a few thoughts about his view of the important issues for SCOR. Three major issues face SCOR in the next few years. The first is the future of two SCOR-sponsored projects, the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) project and the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). Both projects 1 wish to continue beyond their first 10 years, which will require the projects to produce descriptions of their achievements and plans for their extensions. The second issue is the transition from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) to the Future Earth initiative. IGBP has been a major partner with SCOR in sponsoring large-scale ocean research projects since 1989. The path of Future Earth and how this will affect projects like IMBER and SOLAS will not be clear for several more years. Finally, ICSU will review SCOR in the next year or two. ICSU reviews each of its scientific organizations on a periodic basis, but SCOR’s last full review was in 1992. The main issue with the review is that it requires a significant amount of time from the SCOR President, Executive Committee, and Executive Director in terms of answering review questions and preparing materials. Burkill continued by stating that he has identified a topic to which he would like to give extra attention during his term as SCOR President: research in the Indian Ocean. SCOR’s first major activity, for which planning started at the first SCOR meeting in 1957, was the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Burkill noted that the Indian Ocean is still one of the most under- studied ocean basins, there is much interesting ocean science to pursue there, and the results of the research are directly applicable to the nations surrounding the Indian Ocean. The scientific capacity of the nations of that region is higher than in the early 1960s, but there are still significant opportunities for capacity building in the region. As described later in the meeting, SCOR will work with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) on several activities to stimulate new research in the Indian Ocean.