OB024
Quantifying Marine Biological Production Across Scales and Platforms

Session ID#: 259829

Session Description:
Phytoplankton primary production underpins marine food webs and drives the biological carbon pump, playing a critical role in ocean biogeochemistry and the global carbon cycle. Despite decades of study, large uncertainties remain in quantifying key ecosystem metrics such as gross primary production (GPP), net primary production (NPP), net community production (NCP) across different spatiotemporal scales. This session explores innovative approaches to improve our understanding of biological carbon cycling in a changing ocean. We welcome contributions that leverage emerging technologies, such as Biogeochemical-Argo floats, advanced remote sensing, and high-resolution models, to observe, estimate, simulate, and reconcile production rates from local to global scales. Topics include:

  • Improving estimates of NPP, NCP, and net community calcification.

  • Partitioning organic carbon into particulate and dissolved pools.

  • Comparing rate estimates derived from different data sources and/or models.

  • Evaluating productivity in coastal and open ocean regions, including, upwelling systems.

  • Analyzing high-resolution model and observational data to assess how meso- and submeso-scale dynamics affect primary production.

  • Linking production to phytoplankton community structure or higher trophic levels.

We also encourage studies on long-term trends, climate change responses, and synthesis efforts that integrate diverse observations and models to close gaps in our understanding of marine biological production.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • Climate and Ocean Change -
  • Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -
Index Terms:

4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4808 Chemical tracers [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair:  Marija Bacekovic Koloper, University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia
Primary Chair:  Marin Cornec, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / University of Washington - School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
Co-chairs:  Shubha Sathyendranath, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observations, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Bror Jönsson, PhD, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Andrea J Fassbender, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States
 
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