Chemical Tracers, Organic Matter and Trace Elements



CT001
Biogeochemical cycles in oxygen minimum zones: mechanisms, drivers, and change
Primary Chair:  David Janssen, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
Co-chairs:  Daniele Bianchi, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Thomas S Weber, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Janssen, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland


CT002
Biogeochemistry of DOM and DOM-Microbe Interactions
Primary Chair:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Sinikka Lennartz, University of Oldenburg, ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany, Bryndan Paige Durham, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Helena Osterholz, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States


CT003
Chemical Speciation and Biogeochemistry in a Changing Ocean
Primary Chair:  David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Co-chairs:  Veronique Oldham, University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Lewes, DE, United States, Sylvia Sander, IAEA, Monaco-Ville, Monaco and Emily R Estes, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden


CT004
Controls on Trace Metal Biogeochemistry and Physicochemical Speciation in Seawater
Primary Chair:  Hannah Whitby, IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France
Co-chairs:  Randelle M Bundy, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Jessica N Fitzsimmons, Texas A & M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States and Andrea Koschinsky, Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Whitby, IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France


CT005
Gases as Tracers of Ocean Biogeochemical and Physical Processes
Primary Chair:  Roberta Claire Hamme, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-Chair:  David T Ho, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Roberta Claire Hamme, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada


CT006
Ocean Ventilation: Results and Innovations from Transient and Deliberate Tracers
Primary Chair:  Toste S Tanhua, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Douglas Wallace, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Mark J Warner, Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Rana A Fine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Toste S Tanhua, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany


CT007
Production and cycling of organosulfur and volatile organic carbon compounds: where is the field now and how do we move forward?
Primary Chair:  Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  David J Kieber, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, United States, Patricia Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States and Rafel Simo, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


CT008
Revealing Biogeochemical Processes on Basin Scales through Ocean Transects
Primary Chair:  Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States
Co-chairs:  Phoebe J Lam, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Karen L Casciotti, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Rob Middag, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, OCS, Den Burg, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States


CT009
Significance of Photochemistry in Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
Primary Chair:  Heather E Reader, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
Co-chairs:  William L Miller, University of Georgia, Marine Science, Athens, GA, United States, David J Kieber, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, United States and Yuting Zhu, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heather E Reader, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada


CT010
The role of micronutrient cycles in global-scale dynamics
Primary Chair:  Andy Ridgwell, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Alessandro Tagliabue, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Andy Ridgwell, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States


CT011
Understanding Rare Earth Element (REE) distributions and isotopic ratios and the mechanisms behind their use as tracers of (paleo)oceanic processes
Primary Chair:  Brian A Haley, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Torben Stichel, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, Johan Schijf, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States and Vanessa Hatje, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Química Analítica - CIENAM, Salvador, Brazil
Primary Liaison:  Torben Stichel, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany


AI007
The Biogeochemistry of the Upper Ocean and Air-Sea Exchange Processes
Primary Chair:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-chairs:  Mariana Ribas Ribas, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Amanda A Frossard, University of Georgia, Department of Chemistry, Athens, GA, United States and Mohd Talib Latif, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bangi, Malaysia
Primary Liaison:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States


CP017
The Transformation and Fate of Carbon at the Land-Ocean Interface and Beyond
Primary Chair:  Michael Seidel, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Co-chairs:  Nicholas Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Whitney Marine Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Sairah Malkin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Patricia M Medeiros, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael Seidel, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany


CT010
The role of micronutrient cycles in global-scale dynamics
Primary Chair:  Andy Ridgwell, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Alessandro Tagliabue, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Andy Ridgwell, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States


HE007
Moving beyond melt: the impact of melting glaciers, icebergs and sea-ice on ocean environments.
Primary Chair:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Johnna Holding, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Fiammetta Straneo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Lars Henrik Smedsrud, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States


IS003
Autonomous observing systems for macronutrients and bioactive trace metals in coastal and open ocean settings: present status, challenges and emerging technologies
Primary Chair:  Maxime Grand, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Andrew R Bowie, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Agathe Laes-Huon, IFREMER, REM/RDT/LDCM, Plouzané, France and Alexander Beaton, National Oceanography Centre, Ocean Technology and Engineering Group, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Maxime Grand, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States


OB001
Approaches to study marine oxygen deficient zones from macro to micro scales
Primary Chair:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States
Co-chairs:  Andreas Haas, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry, Den Burg, Netherlands, Mark A Altabet, Univ Massachusetts Darmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States and Brett Walker, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States


OB014
Linking microbial, isotope, micro-nutrient, and other approaches to understand carbon and nutrient cycling in the ocean
Primary Chair:  Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Alexis Pasulka, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Department of Biological Sciences, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, Robert T Letscher, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States and Katherine Dawson, Caltech MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Patrick A Rafter, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States


OB015
Linking the biology, geochemistry, and circulation of the Gulf of Mexico
Primary Chair:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Alan M Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States and Juan Carlos Herguera, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Primary Liaison:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States


OB021
Ocean Memory: enabling adaptation, evolution, and sustainability in a changing world.
Primary Chair:  Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States
Co-Chair:  Jody W. Deming, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samantha Benton Joye, Univ Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States


OB024
Quantifying Carbon Export Pathways in the Global Ocean
Primary Chair:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Deborah K Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephanie Henson, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


OB025
Seafloor Cold Seepage: Interactions and Effects of Hydrocarbon Emission and Methane Hydrates on the Geological and Biological Environments
Primary Chair:  Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
Co-chairs:  Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Tamara Baumberger, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States


OB027
Structure, function and biogeochemical role of plankton communities in the nutrient limited open ocean
Primary Chair:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  Adam Martiny, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Bethany D. Jenkins, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology, Kingstown, RI, United States and Robert T Letscher, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States


OB030
Towards BioGeoSCAPES: Exploring molecular drivers of ocean metabolism and biogeochemistry
Primary Chair:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Co-chairs:  Erin Marie Bertrand, Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada, Martha Gledhill, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


OM005
Lagrangian methods for understanding ocean circulation and tracer transport
Primary Chair:  Veronica Tamsitt, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-chairs:  Isabella Rosso, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Erik van Sebille, Universiteit Utrecht, Marine & Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Veronica Tamsitt, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


PC006
High-Resolution, Geochemical Proxies of Global Change: Progress, Problems, and Utility
Primary Chair:  Nina Whitney, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
Co-chairs:  Madelyn Mette, Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, David P Gillikin, Union College, Schenectady, NY, United States and Alan D Wanamaker, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nina Whitney, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States


PS002
Defining the New Frontiers of Ocean Mixing Research
Primary Chair:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Co-Chair:  Naomi Harada, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan