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FOR ABSTRACTS 2004 We are organizing a session entitled "Open Session on the Biogeochemistry of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle " at the 1st EGU Spring Assembly and we invite you to participate. The session is OS14 in Ocean Sciences and is organized by Carol Robinson (carol.robinson@pml.ac.uk), and Veronique Garcon (veronique.garcon@cnes.fr) Guidelines regarding the abstract format, submission and oral/poster presentations are available on the Assembly Web Site (http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu04/abstract_submission.htm). Abstracts are due by *** JANUARY 11th, (24:00 GMT), 2004 ****. This deadline also accounts for invited speakers. We look forward to receiving your abstract. Regards Carol and Veronique ******************************************************************* Open Session on the Biogeochemistry of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle Attempts to predict the future global environment depend on a comprehensive understanding of how biogeochemical cycling in the oceans affects the climate system, and of how changes in climate influence the structure and functional properties of oceanic ecosystems. During the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) era, intensive field studies were carried out through either regional process studies or time-series stations distributed in contrasting oceanic biogeochemical provinces e.g. HOT, BATS, NABE, BOFS, POMME, CANIGO, EUMELI, AMT, CARIACO, ARABESQUE, AESOPS, STERNA, the Northwest Atlantic, PRIME. These field studies have been interpreted with the aid of a hierarchy of mathematical models which describe the contextual physical processes supplying the requisite organic and inorganic nutrients and the ecosytem structure and function facilitating the production, transformation, sequestration and air/sea exchange of carbon. This session invites contributions related to observations, experimental manipulations, predictive analyses and modelling studies of the biological, chemical, physical and geological processes involved in the oceanic carbon cycle and the interactions between them. |