2018 SCOR Annual Meeting

4-7 September 2018
University of Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom

The UK SCOR Committee is co-sponsored by the UK Challenger Society and the Royal Society. The 2018 Challenger Society Conference will be held at Newcastle upon Tyne on the 10-13 September 2018, during the week following the SCOR Annual Meeting. SCOR meeting participants are welcome to attend the Challenger Society conference (see http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/Challenger_Conference_2018).

Materials for Meeting

• Call for Working Group Proposals
• Registration
• Joining Instructions
• Delegate Handbook

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Logistical Information

• Getting to Plymouth
The Great Western Railway (GWR) is offering discounted rail travel to conference delegates; further information can be found on the GWR website. Discounted tickets apply on the GWR Network only.
• Plymouth Visitors Guide
• Map of Plymouth
• Hotels: Two hotels are within walking distance of the University of Plymouth Marine Station: (1) Plymouth Sutton Harbour Premier Inn and (2) Jurys Inn Plymouth. The Premier Inn is more basic, but less expensive and closer (0.5 km) to the meeting location. Jurys Inn is about 1.2 km from the meeting location. We have not reserved a room block at either hotel beyond rooms for the SCOR Executive Committee.
• Social Events
  

  Block Agenda

  Call for Review of WG Proposals

  Proposals (to be posted in April 2018)

  1. Active Chlorophyll fluorescence for autonomous measurements of global marine primary productivity
  2. The Surface Ocean CO2 Mapping intercomparison initiative: Phase 2 (SOCOMv2)
  3. Ocean Governance and Policy Analysis for Ocean Deoxygenation (WG-OGOD)
  4. Carbonate system intercomparison forum (CSIF)
  5. Toward a new global view of marine zooplankton biodiversity based on DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases (MetaZooGene)
  6. The Caribbean Upwelling Research Network (CURNet)
  7. A Framework for Ocean Observation for the Next Generation - expanding quantifiable methods and Best Practices (FOO-BP)
  8. Coordinated Global Research Assessment Of Seagrass Systems (C-GRASS)
  9. Co-ordinated approach for Aerosol Trace element Solubility and Bioavailability Research in Oceanography (CoATS-BRO)
  Background Book for Meeting

  Full Background Book (24.1 MB)

  Annotated Agenda and Participants List

  Tab 1 - Opening Session (posted 18 July 2018)

  Tab 2 - Working Group Reports and Proposals (posted 2 August 2018)
  

  WG 138 (added 13 August 2018)
  WG 139 (added 9 August 2018)
  WG 147 (added 13 August 2018)
  WG 149 (added 15 August 2018)

  Tab 3 - Large-Scale Ocean Research Projects (posted 2 August 2018)

  2018 GEOTRACES National Reports
  2018_SOLAS_National_Reports
  SOLAS Event Reports (1-8)
  IIOE-2 Report

  Tab 4 - Infrastructural and Other Activities (posted 11 July 2018)

  Tab 5 - Capacity-Building Activities (posted 11 July 2018)

  Tab 6 - Relations with Intergovernmental Organization (posted 2 August 2018)

  Tab 7 - Relations with Non-governmental Organizations (posted 2 August 2018)

  Tab 8 - Organization and Finance (posted 11 July 2018)

  Tab 9 - SCOR-Related Meetings (posted 11 July 2018)