The TRICUSO project and members of its consortium made a healthy splash in the heavily populated waters of OSM26. Held in Glasgow, Scotland, this was the first time the prestigious conference took place outside the United States, and it was a welcome setting for two town halls, a co-chaired session titled The Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: processes, observations, and change and a poster talk.
The oceanographic community has made great strides over the past three decades in developing physical and biogeochemical open-ocean observing capacity. However, a more holistic understanding of marine ecosystem function and change requires the integration of large-scale, sustained biological and ecological observations. Over the last few years, pilot projects in the USA, Japan and Australia have begun to incorporate routine biological measurements into GO-SHIP cruises. These pilot projects form the basis for an incipient global Bio-GO-SHIP sustained biological ocean observing program. TRICUSO colleagues Sophie Clayton (NOC) and Alice Soccodato (EMBRC) will be presenting a Town Hall on Bio-GO-SHIP: Establishing an International Program to Deliver Sustained Open-Ocean Biological Data on Wednesday 25 February at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. This Town Hall aims to bring together current and prospective contributors to the international Bio-GO-SHIP program to: Highlight Bio-GO-SHIP successes, data and scientific contributions and introduce upcoming activities. Engage potential contributors from GO-SHIP nations not currently running Bio-GO-SHIP projects, including protocol and sample sharing, and cruise participation. Pave the way to establishing an international Bio-GO-SHIP committee to monitor, advocate and regularly review biological and ecological variables. Read more about this session here.
One of TRICUSO’s aims is the development of European Bio-GO-SHIP, a new initiative aligned with the international GO-SHIP programme, and inspired by current Bio-GO-SHIP efforts in the US, Australia and Japan to support sustained and consistent observations of open ocean biology.
TRICUSO’s Sophie Clayton (NOC), Alice Soccodato (EMBRC-ERIC) and Tosca Sala (EMBRC-ERIC) invited expressions of interest for an initial scoping meeting to bring together a small group of experienced marine researchers to help define the vision, scope, and initial roadmap for European Bio-GO-SHIP. This will serve as the foundation for broader engagement and official calls for participation in later phases.
TRICUSO’s Sophie Clayton (NOC), Alice Soccodato (EMBRC-ERIC) and Tosca Sala (EMBRC-ERIC) invited expressions of interest for an initial scoping meeting to bring together a small group of experienced marine researchers to help define the vision, scope, and initial roadmap for European Bio-GO-SHIP. This will serve as the foundation for broader engagement and official calls for participation in later phases.
TRICUSO partner Dr. Sophie Clayton (National Oceanography Centre) along with her colleagues have been named recipients of the prestigious 2024 National Oceanographic Partnership Program Excellence in Partnering Award for their project Bio-GO-SHIP.
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