Arctic-COLORS Open Community Workshop - July 28-29, 2016
Date: Thursday, July 28 from 2 to 5:30 pm and Friday, July 29 from 8:30 am to 3 pm.
Location: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Arctic-COLORS (Arctic-COastal Land Ocean inteRactions) is a Field Campaign Scoping Study supported by NASA's Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program that aims to quantify present and future impacts of changing land and ice on marine net ecosystem productivity in the fastest warming environment on the planet: the Arctic. A Science Plan is under development that describes and justifies the design of an integrative, interdisciplinary oceanographic field campaign and modeling program that addresses high priority science questions related to land-sea-ice interactions in the nearshore Arctic, and assesses the impacts of natural and anthropogenic changes on coastal ocean ecology and biogeochemistry.
The panel convened by NASA OBB to review a preliminary version of the Arctic-COLORS Science Plan (http://arctic-colors.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ArcticCOLORS_Final.pdf) was very supportive of Arctic-COLORS and recommended revisions and re-submission of the report for further consideration by NASA. Immediately following the OCB summer workshop, there will be a 1.5-day open community workshop at WHOI (July 28-29) to engage interested scientists in a dialog about the proposed field campaign and obtain broad community input on these revisions. During this workshop we will (1) focus the top level science questions, (2) discuss potential de-scoping scenarios, and (3) narrow the study domain.
Follow the registration link to the OCB Summer Workshop to register for the Arctic-COLORS workshop >>
Registration deadline is June 15.
