Tuesday, March 7 - MORNING
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Introduction
8:45 a.m. Driving issues in terrestrial carbon cycle research
[Chris Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington]
9:20 a.m. Driving issues in atmospheric carbon cycle research
[Mike Bender, Princeton University]
10:00 a.m. "How ocean processes affecting partitioning of carbon respond to changes in climate forcing"
[Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton University]
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. Discussion of future directions and coordination of carbon cycle research programs.
[Jack Kaye - NASA; Lisa Dilling - NOAA; Don Rice - NSF]
12:15 Lunch
Tuesday - AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. "Distribution of CO2 sink/source flux and biological contributions over the global oceans based on sea-air pCO2 difference measurements. What area should we study next? "
[Taro Takahashi, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]
2:10 p.m. Physical processes that govern the regional and vertical partitioning of inorganic and organic carbon pools within and between ocean regions and basins
[Anand Gnanadesikan - Princeton]
2:50 p.m. "Ecological Stoichiometry of the Ocean's Biological Pumps"
[Dave Karl, University of Hawaii ]
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:40 p.m. "The Biological Pump: A DOC Perspective"
[Dennis Hansell, Bermuda Biological Station for Research]
4:20 p.m. Changes in the organic carbon/CaCO3 ratio of biogenic debris sinking through the water column
[Dave Archer, University of Chicago]
4:50 p.m. Use of remote sensing in ocean carbon cycle research (30 minutes)
[Mary-Elena Carr, JPL]
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the Day
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Wednesday, March 8- MORNING
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Plenary Session Discussions
- Review of OCTET goal and important questions.- Summaries of major uncertainties (from Particpant Statements)
- How do we reach a consensus vision of OCTET research?
• Charge to Solubility Pump and Biological Pump Working Groups:
- Identify key unknowns relevant to OCTET research priorities.- Design a strategy to resolve outstanding questions and test related hypotheses.
9:50 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. Break into Working Groups:
• Solubility Pump
Chair: Dick Feely; Rapporteur: Chris Sabine
1 - air-sea exchange
2 - circulation and CO2 transport
3 - inventory
• Biological Pump
Chair: Dave Karl; Rapporteur: Debbie Steinberg
1 - inventory, supply or uptake efficiency
of limiting nutrients;
2 - stoichiometric ratios of organic matter produced and retained in
the surface layer, or exported from it;
3 - form of organic carbon produced and exported biologically;
4 - organic carbon/CaCO3 ratio of biogenic debris sinking through the
water column.
12:15p.m. Lunch
Wednesday - AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. Short reports of morning working groups
2:30 p.m. Regional talks (20-30 minutes) on:
• North Atlantic - Hugh Ducklow/Dennis
Hansell
• North Pacific (including Equatorial) - Steve Emerson
• Southern Ocean - Bob Anderson
• Continental Margins - Rick Jahnke
4:30 p.m. Break into working groups on each region:
1 - What are important processes specific to
each region?
2 - What are implementation strategies?
Rapporteur (North Atlantic): Hugh
Ducklow/Dennis Hansell
Rapporteur (North Pacific): Will Berelson
Rapporteur (Southern Ocean): Mark Abbott
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the Day
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Thursday, March 9 - MORNING
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Short reports of Day 2 afternoon working groups
9:00 a.m. Reconvene in basin-scale groups
11:15 p.m Plenary discussions
12:15 p.m. Lunch
Thursday - AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. Break into 3 working groups to discuss:
- Development and use of modern observing systems: developing new in-situ analytical systems (e.g., autonomous samplers; rapid water samplers and sensors) while exploiting the remote sensing and modeling tools necessary for implementing a global ocean carbon monitoring program.
Chair: Ken Johnson
Rapporteur: Bob Byrne
- Historical and paleoclimate variability studies: synthesis of existing data sets and design of new, targeted field studies to evaluate the ocean carbon cycle response and feedbacks to climate variability.
Chair:Ed Boyle
Rapporteur: Danny Sigman
- Ocean carbon cycle climate projections: synthesis and modeling studies to tie ocean processes into the global carbon cycle and physical climate with a specific emphasis on modeling paleoclimate and anthropogenic climate change.
Chair: Scott Doney
Rapporteur: Rob Armstrong
4:30 p.m. Plenary - Report of Working Groups
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the Day
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Friday, March 10 - MORNING
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Plenary Session Discussions:
• Identify those research areas and activities where the most significant advances can be made in the next 5-10 years.
• Outline Workshop Report
• Discuss implementation issues that affect planning:
- small, intermediate and large science
- lab vs. field
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
12:00 Workshop Adjourns at Noon
12:15 p.m. Lunch
(12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Ocean Carbon Working Group Meeting)