SCOR Proceedings 39th SCOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGVolume 50 Beijing, China 20-22 October 2009 Bremen, Germany September 2014 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON OCEANIC RESEARCH September 2012 – 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. 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SCOR Proceedings, Volume 50 REPORT OF THE 2014 ANNUAL SCOR 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, 2 1.4 Report of the SCOR Executive Director, 2 1.5 Appointment of an Ad Hoc Finance Committee, 3 1.6 2014 Elections for SCOR Officers, 3 1.7 Capacity-building Presentation, 3 1.7 Second International Indian Ocean Expedition, 5 1.8 International Commission of History of Oceanography (ICHO), 8 2.0 WORKING GROUPS 8 2.1 Disbanded Working Groups, 8 2.2 Current Working Groups, 8 2.3 Working Group Proposals, 12 3.0 LARGE-SCALE OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS 15 3.1 IOC/SCOR Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Program, 15 3.2 Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project, 16 3.3 GEOTRACES, 18 3.4 SCOR/Future Earth/WCRP/iCACGP Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), 20 3.5 SCOR/POGO International Quiet Ocean Experiment, 22 3.6 SCOR/IOC/IOGOOS Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2), 23 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURAL ACTIVITIES 24 4.1 SCOR/IOC International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), 24 4.2 SCAR/SCOR Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), 24 4.3 Data Publication Activity, 26 4.4 IAPWS/SCOR/IAPSO Joint Committee on Seawater, 27 4.5 GlobalHAB, 27 5.0 CAPACITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES 27 5.1 SCOR Committee on Capacity Building, 27 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, 33 6.3 Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), 34 6.4 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), 34 7.0 RELATIONS WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 34 7.1 International Council for Science, 34 7.2 Affiliated Organizations, 36 7.3 Affiliated Programs, 36 7.4 Other Organizations, 37 8.0 ORGANIZATION AND FINANCE 38 8.1 Membership, 38 8.2 Publications Arising from SCOR Activities, 39 8.3 Finances, 39 9.0 SCOR-RELATED MEETINGS 41 9.1 SCOR Annual Meetings, 41 APPENDICES Appendix 1 – Participants, 42 Appendix 2 – Agenda, 46 Appendix 3 – Proposal for a Working Group on Chemical Speciation Modelling in Seawater to Meet 21st Century Needs (MARCHEMSPEC), 49 Appendix 4 – Proposal for a Working Group on Radioactivity in the Ocean, 5 Decades Later (RiO5), 61 Appendix 5 – Proposal for a Working Group: Towards comparability of global oceanic nutrient data (COMPONUT), 74 Appendix 6 – SCOR/IOC Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) project, 86 Appendix 7 – SCOR/Future Earth Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project, 97 Appendix 8 – GEOTRACES, 121 Appendix 9 – SCOR/Future Earth/WCRP/iCACGP Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), 143 Appendix 10 – SCOR/POGO International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE), 158 Appendix 11 - SCOR/IOC/IOGOOS Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2), 159 Appendix 12 – 2013 Audited SCOR Statement of Activities, 160 Appendix 13 – SCOR-Related Meetings (2013-2015), 161 XXXII SCOR GENERAL MEETING Bremen, Germany 15-18 September 2014 _________________________________________________________________ 1.0 OPENING 1.1 Opening Remarks and Administrative Arrangements SCOR President Peter Burkill welcomed participants to the XXXII SCOR General Meeting (Appendix 1). An important objective of this meeting is to review proposals for new working groups and select which ones will be approved by SCOR to start in 2015. Burkill thanked the University of Bremen and its Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) for hosting the meeting. He introduced Dr. Michael Schulz, the director of MARUM. Dr. Schulz welcomed meeting participants to the University of Bremen, which was established in 1971. MARUM employs 350 people, mainly working on climate science and seafloor dynamics. A key focus area for MARUM is developing and operating facilities such as ROVs, AUVs, and remotely controlled underwater drill rigs. Forty percent of the users are external at the international level. The program on Thursday will provide an overview of marine sciences, reviewed by representatives from several different marine institutions in Germany. Schulz noted that the Oceanography Commission of Germany met at MARUM the previous week. Peter Burkill opened a time of remembrance of SCOR colleagues who had died in the past year. Daniel Lluch-Belda was one of the co-chairs of SCOR/IOC WG 98 on Worldwide Large-scale Fluctuations of Sardine and Anchovy Populations, which produced one of the most-cited papers from a SCOR working group. Shirley Jeffrey played a major role in SCOR/UNESCO WG 78 on Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments in Seawater, which produced the 1997 book Phytoplankton Pigments in Seawater. This book became a standard in laboratories conducting pigment analyses. Dr. Jeffrey also helped stimulate the complete revision of the book in 2011 as Phytoplankton Pigments: Characterization, Chemotaxonomy, and Applications in Oceanography. Toshiro Saino helped guide the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and led Japanese involvement in JGOFS. 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 participants for any requests for changes in the agenda (Appendix 2). Ed Urban noted that the order of items in the block agenda was slightly different from the order in the background book sections to accommodate the schedules of speakers. Burkill asked for meeting participants to introduce themselves. -1- 1.3 Report of the President of SCOR Peter Burkill briefly reviewed his activities for SCOR since the SCOR Executive Committee Meeting in November 2013 in Wellington, New Zealand, in his role as SCOR President. The first activity related to the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition. In March 2014, Burkill participated in the third meeting of the IOC Reference Group in Mauritius, which included about 30 participants, mostly from western Indian Ocean countries. Also in March, he organized a 2- day workshop near Plymouth to assemble the UK ocean science community