At the 2021 SCOR Annual Meeting, three new Working Groups were approved to initiate activities in 2022 for 3-4 years. The groups are:
SCOR WG #163. Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (CIce2Clouds), co-chaired by Nadja Steiner (Canada) and Megan Willis (USA)
SCOR WG #164. CoNCENSUS: Advancing standardisation of COastal and Nearshore demersal fish visual CENSUS techniques, co-chaired by Anthony Bernard (South Africa) and Rick Stuart-Smith (Australia)
SCOR WG #165. Mixotrophy in the Oceans – Novel Experimental designs and Tools for a new trophic paradigm (MixONET), co-chaired by Aditee Mitra (UK) and George McManus (USA).
The liaisons of these WGs to the SCOR Executive will be Paul Myers for Clce2Clouds, Enrique Montes for CoNCENSUS, and Charlotte Laufkoetter for MixONET.