GO-BGC hosts quarterly webinars about emerging science using GO-BGC or BGC-Argo float data, focusing on early career researchers. The webinar series is hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program. Recordings are also available on the OCB website.
January 31, 2024
This quarterly GO-BGC/BGC-Argo Webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program focused on carbon export dynamics beginning with an update on the status of the GO-BGC float array, followed by two short presentations highlighting the Biogeochemical Argo array. The webinar closed with a community discussion about recommended practices, challenges, and future perspectives of using BGC-Argo measurements to enhance our understanding of carbon export dynamics.
Webinar agenda:
- Yui Takeshita (MBARI): Introduction and GO-BGC update.
- Ellen Park (WHOI): Quantifying biological carbon pump parameters from the global Biogeochemical Argo float array.
- Adam Stoer (Dalhousie University): Estimating marine phytoplankton biomass and productivity from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.
- Discussion
June 20, 2023
This quarterly GO-BGC/BGC-Argo Webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program had two presentations on new tools for BGC-Argo data access and visualization. Dr. Reiner Schlitzer presented on webODV, a new online tool based on Ocean Data View that can be used to visualize, explore, and export BGC-Argo data through a GUI interface. Hartmut Frenzel presented on the One-Argo toolbox, an open source toolbox designed to efficiently access, process, and visualize BGC, Core, and Deep Argo data. Float data can be searched using a variety of criteria including sensor type, location, and date.
Agenda:
- Yui Takeshita (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): Updates on GO-BGC
- Reiner Schlitzer (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research): Online analysis and visualization of BGC-Argo data with webODV
- Hartmut Frenzel (NOAA PMEL): OneArgo toolbox for accessing and analyzing Argo data – overview and new features
- Discussion
February 15, 2023
This webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project Office, focused on using BGC-Argo float data to investigate chemical and biological processes in the ocean that are influenced by eddies, meanders, and other mesoscale and sub-mesoscale processes. The webinar began with an update on the status of the GO-BGC float array, followed by two short presentations, and a community discussion about recommended practices, challenges, and future perspectives of using BGC-Argo measurements to enhance our understanding of how mesoscale processes shape patterns of biogeochemistry in marine environments. Recordings will be available on the OCB and GO-BGC websites.
Agenda:
- Yui Takeshita (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): An update for GO-BGC program
- Lily Dove (California Institute of Technology, USA): Investigating Ventilation at the Submesoscale in the Southern Ocean
- Shuangling Chen (Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China): Episodic oxygen injections observed from BGC-Argo
- Discussion
October 5, 2022
Please join us for the quarterly GO-BGC webinar, hosted by the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project Office. This webinar will be the first of two consecutive webinars focused on using BGC-Argo float data to investigate chemical and biological processes in the ocean that are influenced by weather and extreme events. The webinar will open with an update on the status of the GO-BGC float array, then we will hear two short presentations about exciting new work in the main topic area. We’ll close with a community discussion about best practices, challenges, and future perspectives of using BGC-Argo measurements to enhance our understanding of how storms, heatwaves, and other ocean- and land-based extreme events shape patterns of biogeochemistry in the global ocean.
Agenda:
- Yui Takeshita (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): An update for GO-BGC program
- Jakob Weis (nstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia): Using BGC-Argo floats to study phytoplankton blooms stimulated by the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires
- Magdalena Carranza (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA): The role of storms on air-sea carbon exchange in the Southern Ocean.
- Discussion
June 29, 2022
This quarterly GO-BGC webinar focused on investigations of phytoplankton phenology and variability at regional to global scales using a range of chemical and bio-optical sensors on the BGC-Argo floats. We heard four presentations about exciting new work in this area, followed by a community discussion about best practices, challenges, and future perspectives of using BGC-Argo data to advance our understanding of ecological dynamics and the footprint of progressive climate change on the ocean.
Agenda:
- Yui Takeshita (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): An update for GO-BGC program
- Nicholas Bock (Columbia University): Biogeographical classification of the global ocean from BGC-Argo Floats
- Marin Cornec (NOAA Pacific Environmental Laboratory): Dynamics of the deep chlorophyll maxima at a global scale based on bio-optical measurements of BGC-Argo floats
- Mariana Bif (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): The impact of heatwaves on the northeast Pacific ecosystem
- Discussion
March 30, 2022
Agenda:
- Intro to the GO-BGC webinar series (motivation is to entrain the community to use GO-BGC and BGC-Argo data)
- Intro to BGC-Argo and GO-BGC
- Upcoming Float deployment plans (global)
- How to use BGC-Argo data?
- What is the quality of BGC-Argo data?
- Discussion