News

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

The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is seeking its next Executive Director. See call for applications at https://scor-int.org/SCOR_ED_Advertisement.pdf.

New paper on Hydrothermal Energy Transfer and Organic Carbon Production at the Deep Seafloor from SCOR/InterRidge WG 135: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00531/full

New paper from SCOR WG 141-related cruise on the R/V Falkor: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JC014021

ASLO recently published four eLectures from SCOR WG 146 on Radioactivity in the Ocean, 5 decades later (RiO5) (see Publications section at https://scor-int.org/group/146/).

SCOR WG 144 on Microbial Community Responses to Ocean Deoxygenation publishes special issue of Deep-Sea Research II: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deep-sea-research-part-ii-topical-studies-in-oceanography/vol/156/suppl/C …

New paper from SCOR WG 142 on Quality Control Procedures for Oxygen and Other Biogeochemical Sensors on Floats and Gliders (see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00429/full).

SCOR Newsletter #38 is available at http://www.scor-int.org/Publications/SCOR-NL-38.pdf. It includes news from the September 2018 SCOR Annual Meeting, reports on recent activities from the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), announcements of upcoming meetings, a report from a 2018 SCOR Visiting Scholar, and announcements of recent publications from SCOR working groups.

New publication from SCOR WG 143 on Dissolved N2O and CH4 measurements: https://www.biogeosciences.net/15/5891/2018/ .

At its 4-7 Sept. annual meeting, SCOR approved two new SCOR working groups: (1) WG 156 on Active Chlorophyll fluorescence for autonomous measurements of global marine primary productivity and (2) WG 157: MetaZooGene. Proposals are at https://scor-int.org/. events/scor-annual-meeting-2018/.