Affiliated programs: NACP
Acronym: OCB
Url: Program Web Site
Start date: 2006
End date:
Geolocation: Global

Description:

The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program is not an ocean research program in the traditional sense. OCB Project Office staff members, working at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and OCB Steering Committee members work together with research investigators to achieve the overall program goals including promotion, planning, and coordination of collaborative, multidisciplinary research opportunities within the U.S. research community and with international partners.

OCB Mission: to establish the evolving role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle, in the face of environmental change, through studies of marine biogeochemical cycles and associated ecosystems

OCB Overarching Science Themes:
Improve understanding and prediction of:
1) oceanic uptake and release of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases;
2) climate-sensitivities of biogeochemical cycles and interactions with ecosystem structure

Identified Priorities (2007):
- Ocean acidification
- Terrestrial/coastal carbon fluxes and exchanges
- Climate sensitivities of and change in ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles
- Mesopelagic ecological and biogeochemical interactions
- Benthic-pelagic feedbacks on biogeochemical cycles
- Ocean carbon uptake and storage

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