SCOR Working Group 161

Respiration in the Mesopelagic Ocean (ReMO): Reconciling ecological, biogeochemical and model estimates

Chair(s)
Carol Robinson (UK), Iris Kriest (Germany), Javier Arístegui (Spain)
Other Full Members
Matthieu Bressac (Australia), Gerhard Herndl (Austria / The Netherlands), Morten Iversen (Germany), Hyung Jeek Kim (Korea), Jack Middelburg (The Netherlands), Natalia Osma (Chile), Ying Wu (China)
Associate Members
X.A. Alvarez-Salgado (Spain), Haimanti Biswas (India), Giorgio Dall'Olmo (UK), Katja Fennel (Canada), Sara Ferrón (USA), Raquel Flynn (South Africa), Dominique Lefevre (France), Toshi Nagata (Japan), Christian Tamburini (France), Yao Zhang (China)
Reporter
Judith Gobin
Terms of Reference

  1. Identify, quantify and prioritise gaps in our knowledge, and prepare an action plan to reduce these gaps by reviewing available information on mesopelagic respiration.

  2. Develop a global dataset of mesopelagic respiration estimates, derived from the range of ecological and biogeochemical techniques available, in order to create a resource for validation of biogeochemical models including Earth System Models used for climate projection.

  3. Produce a new synthesis of open ocean mesopelagic respiration.

  4. Produce a best practice manual of techniques and approaches to determine mesopelagic respiration, and make recommendations as to which is the most appropriate method or combination of methods for a particular application, including best practice on how to reconcile approaches across time and space scales.

  5. Build capacity, share knowledge and transfer technical skills, particularly to scientists in developing nations.

Approved
October 2020
Financial Sponsors
SCOR, NSF
Meetings

  1. December 2020 (online)

  2. January 2021 (online)

  3. February 2021 (online)

  4. March 2021 (online)

  5. April 2021 (online)

  6. May 2021 (online)

  7. June 2021 (online)

  8. October 2021 (online)

  9. November 2021 (online)

  10. December 2021 (online)

  11. January 2022 (online)

  12. February 2022 (online)

  13. March 2022 (online)

  14. April 2022 (online)

  15. May 2022 (online)

  16. June 2022 (online)

  17. July 2022 (online)

  18. August 2022 (online)

  19. September 2022 (online)

  20. October 2022 (online)

  21. November 2022 (online)

  22. December 2022 (online)

  23. January 2023 (online)

  24. February 2023 (online)

  25. March 2023 (online)

  26. April 2023 (online)

  27. May 2023 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain

  28. August 2023 (online)

  29. September 2023 (online)

Group Website
https://www.remo-scor-wg161.com/home
Publications
  • Herndl, G. J., Bayer, B., Baltar, F., & Reinthaler, T. (2023). Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean’s Water Column. Annual Review of Marine Science, 15(1), 461–483. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032122-115655
  • Iversen, M. H. (2023). Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist’s Perspective. Annual Review of Marine Science, 15(1), 357–381. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032122-035153

  • Guo, H., Kriest, I., Oschlies, A., & Koeve, W. (2023). Can oxygen utilization rate be used to track the long-term changes of aerobic respiration in the mesopelagic Atlantic Ocean? Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102645. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102645.

  • Sulpis, O., Trossman, D. S., Holzer, M., Jeansson, E., Lauvset, S. K., & Middelburg, J. J. (2023). Respiration patterns in the dark ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2023GB007747. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007747.