SCOR WG 161 ReMO will be co-organizing the following workshop:
International Workshop on The Role of Marine Biology in Helping the Ocean Store Carbon.
📅 2 – 4 March 2026
🗺️ Glasgow, UK
‼️ Deadline: 24th August
Apply and read the details here.
Marine organisms play a critical role in helping the ocean store carbon, but climate models struggle to make consistent predictions for how this may change in the future. This international workshop will address this by bringing together scientists from around the world, to pool data on key processes and to develop a roadmap for how we should represent those processes in the next generation of climate models. The intention is to publish that roadmap, and to include all participants as co-authors.
The workshop will focus on the following 10 themes, identified as key gaps in our understanding:
– calcification and the rain ratio
– plankton community structure
– phytoplankton growth and micronutrients
– the microbial loop and solubilization
– plankton respiration
– zooplankton processes
– particle characteristics & ballasting
– particle fragmentation & aggregation
– the active flux due to vertical migration
– the physical circulation