Financial Support Request to Mary Zawoysky (mzawoysky@whoi.edu)                                   for the Final JGOFS Open Science Conference                                                                         "A Sea of Change: JGOFS Accomplishments and the Future of Ocean Biogeochemistry",                                                                                                          May 5-8, 2003, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, USA

From Aurélien PAULMIER, french Ph.D. student (paulmier@ccr.jussieu.fr; LBCM, case courrier 134, Université Paris VI, 4 pl. Jussieu, 75 252 PARIS cedex 05, FRANCE; Tél: +33 1 44 27 48 61; Fax: + 33 1 44 27 49 93)

Motivation to go to the JGOFS Conference:
First of all, I would like to present my research results at the Final JGOFS Open Conference. In fact the goal of my Ph.D., which is to study the role of the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) on CO2/N2O (GreenHouse Gases, GHG), is included in carbon fluxes JGOFS preoccupation. Indeed the OMZ, in particular in the East South Pacific (ESP) on which I focus my Ph.D., has not been studied deeply by the JGOFS program. A coupled approach of CO2 and N2O fluxes in the OMZ could thus provide new and complementary elements of comprehension on processes related to carbon, which were not understood during JGOFS decade.
In addition, my participation at the conference will constitute a significant contribution in my Ph.D. training. Thus I could benefit from the 10 year knowledge synthesis, which will be presented by areas and themes, on CO2 fluxes and on the processes which control them. My study proposed within a local framework (ESP), could then be replaced in the global scale. The JGOFS conference is also a great opportunity to meet the scientific community of the biochemists, specialists in matter fluxes in the ocean (C and N). Then it will enable me to discuss JGOFS results on the carbon recycling, in which the question of the Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZ) activity fitted, that I develop in my Ph.D. This participation will also enable me to establish the link, for the present and the future, with the new international programs. Indeed I am implied in the SOLAS1 and OCEANS2 goals, through the study of: i) the feedbacks between the ocean (OMZ) and the atmosphere (GHG); ii) the biogeochemical "hotspots", sensitive to the climate, like the OMZ.
My connection to JGOFS:
I would like to compare the CO2 fluxes obtained from the data acquired during my work on the ESP, with the exhaustive JGOFS CO2 fluxes measured in the global ocean. In fact oceanic regions comparable to ESP (i.e. presenting an OMZ: East Tropical North Pacific, Peru, Arabian Sea), have been more documented than ESP, by JGOFS programs.
In addition and in a concrete way, the ESP data (1996-97, JGOFS-Chile: CO2; later in 2000-02, also acquired along the Chilean coasts: CO2 and N2O) will be presented and valorized to feed the JGOFS data base. 
My poster title: CO2/N2O fluxes in the East South Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone: different behaviours
PhD advisor information from student:
	Ph.D. is managed by Diana Ruiz-Pino and A. Poisson (Ph.D. director). D. Ruiz-Pino is a specialist in the study of the processes on a global scale for CO2, and was in charge for KERFIX project (1990-95). She will also join the congress to present a synthesis of knowledge on the CO2 studies. 
A. Poisson is a specialist in the CO2 measurement, implied in JGOFS and WOCE programs.
Dissertation (title and institution) from student:
	The title of my Ph.D. is:  Oxygen Minimum Layers:  source or sink of CO2/N2O, climatic effect gases?  Case of the East South Pacific Upwelling. It takes place at the Laboratoire de Biogéochimie et Chimie Marines (LBCM), at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS VI), France.
Past attendance at JGOFS meetings, symposiums or workshop:
	I was in Chile during the first 16 months of my Ph.D., to collect data (cruises, measurements, analyses). So I could not go at any JGOFS national or international meetings.
Specific details on cost sharing:
	The cost of the conference is not supported by the financing of my Ph.D. My CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) fellowship gives my salary to me. The own LBCM resources and the French Research Programs (like PROOF, Program of biogeochemical PROcesses in the Ocean and Flux, JGOFS-France) support cruises, laboratory materials and equipment. Because of the extremely expensive cost (in particular in Washington DC), the North American conferences financing is thus not supported by these institutions. 
However an exceptional financial request to CNRS enables me to obtain the support for my daily expenses (for a 7 days stay: hotel + meals + others): 1200 US$.
Amount I will need:
	The required financial support corresponds to the remaining costs, for registration (75 US $), airfare + taxes and ground transportation (925 US $):  1000 US $.

1. SOLAS: Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study                      
2. OCEANS: Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Analisys