The people who expressed an interest in the S.BGC. working group are:
Dave Siegel
Mick Follows
Ed Laws
Paul Falkowski
Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez
Kevin Arrigo
Michael Lizotte
Jorge Sarmiento
Raleigh Hood
Dick Dugdale
Mark Verschell
M-E Carr

The major topics that were suggested fall under the following loose categories:

I (MEC) have added names of some of the people who have something to contribute (and suggested the topic).

• New production from space, net primary production from space. (Ed Laws, Paul Falkowski, Dick Dugdale, M-E Carr)
• Functional groups and community structure. (Ed Laws, Michael Lizotte, Kevin Arrigo, Dave Siegel, Paul Falkowski, Eileen Hoffmann)
• Algorithms.  Regional (high latitude for example) and Case II difficulties. Use of JGOFS data to improve algorithms. (Kevin Arrigo, Dave Siegel, Chuck McClain, Frank Muller-Karger)
• Access to other data products (e.g. AVHRR). (Dave Siegel, M-E Carr)
• Products useful to modelers (what IS useful and what is not). (Dave Siegel, Frank Muller-Karger, Chuck McClain, Kevin Arrigo, Jorge Sarmiento, Paul Falkowski, M-E Carr)
• Coordination carbon cycle data analysis studies with ocean color analyses. (Jorge Sarmiento, Scott Doney)
• Long-term data sets to address interannual variability of the global carbon cycle (Jorge Sarmiento, Chuck McClain)
• Nutrient-SST regressions. (Dick Dugdale, Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez)
• Compound remote sensing to identify functional groups/community structure. (Paul Falkowski, Dave Siegel, M-E Carr, Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez)
• Reverse engineering (We can do X from space, how does X relate to ocean biogeochemistry?) (Dave Siegel)