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New product from SCOR WG 149: Launch of the Multiple Environmental Driver Design Lab for Experiments (MEDDLE; www.meddle-scor149.org). See also Nature Climate Change 9( May 2019), p. 357 and https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29392/.

OceanObs’19 Community White Paper on Globally Consistent Quantitative Observations of Planktonic Ecosystems, inspired in part by SCOR WGs 154 and 150: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00196

New publication from SCOR WG 143: A Harmonized Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Ocean Observation Network for the 21st Century (see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00157/full).

In October 2018, the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) project sponsored a workshop that discussed the future directions of methane and nitrous oxide measurements in the global ocean, based on the work of SCOR WG 143. See video at https://youtu.be/0DyMyIVs4Qs.

Call for applications: POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship 2019 (see http://ocean-partners.org/pogo-scor-fellowship). Applications are due by 30 April 2019.

Call for applications: OA-ICC/SCOR 149 training course on best practices for ocean acidification experiments in multi-stressor scenarios (see https://news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2019/02/26/call-for-applications-oa-icc-scor-training-course-on-best-practices-for-ocean-acidification-experiments-in-multi-stressor-scenarios-24-28-june-2019-monaco/).

SCOR WG 157 (Toward a new global view of marine zooplankton biodiversity based on DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases (MetaZooGene)) announces symposium on 13 September 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden (see https://scor-int.org/Working_Groups/WG157_Symposium.pdf).

The 2019 SCOR Annual Meeting will be held in Toyama, Japan. For more information, see https://scor-int.org/events/scor-annual-meeting-2019/.

SCOR has issued a call for proposals for new SCOR working groups to start in 2020.