Past meetings

1. Key points from the last ADMT (5 min). Catherine Schmechtig

2. Current status of flagging and QC at various DACs (45 min). Catherine Schmechtig & Ken Johnson

• One slide (sent one week in advance) per DAC stating where there are, advances and issues. Total time for all presentations (no questions, later in the discussion): 10 min


• Discussion: 30 min

3. Generation and hosting of derivative products of interest to modelers (20 min).

• Peter Strutton to organize and propose.

4. Float and sensor performance update – lifetimes.
Ken Johnson & Hervé Claustre

• Potential issues with Chla excitation. (5 min) Hervé Claustre


• Desirability of having a more standard mission: (5 min) Ken Johnson


• Upgrading float for having more energy for more flexibility (5 min): Hervé Claustre


• Response time correction for oxygen sensor (5 min): Katja Fennel / Ken Johnson


• Discussion (5 min)

5. Maintaining a BGC Reference Database (5 min) Ken Johnson

6. Strategy for the revision of the implementation plan (25 min):
Ken Johnson& Hervé Claustre

• What is an Argo float?


• BGC-Argo vs Argo-O2: potential synergies


• BGC-Argo program: an implementation roadmap

Contact

• All slides to be sent by Wednesday 15 April to Catherine Schmechtig: schmechtig@obs-vlfr.fr.

1. National BGC-Argo reports: (40 min). Hervé Claustre

• Reports (ppt of no more than 10 slides with audio of the presentation registered [easy to set up]) will have to be been sent to all one week in advance.


• During the meeting, these national reports will be summarized in one slide (also sent one week in advance). Total time for all presentations (no questions, later in the discussion): 10 min


• Discussion: 30 min

2. Plan for the future deployments, long-term implementation of the global array, coordination. (50 min). Ken Johnson

• One slide for short-term vision for near-future deployments (accepted proposal, submitted proposal) and one slide for the long-term vision and “political” actions. Both slides sent one week in advance. Total time for all presentations: 20 min


• Discussion: 30 min

3. Web site / newsletter / project office... (10 min). Hervé Claustre

4. How to better run the SSC, strengthen a shared vision, communicate (20 min): all

• Quarterly 2 hours-meeting? Which essential topics should be discussed?


• Good practices and “rules” for acceptance / replacement duty for new members?


• Suggestion welcome, one slide max per person

Contact

• All slides to be sent by Wednesday 8 April to Catherine Schmechtig: schmechtig@obs-vlfr.fr.

• Emanuele Organelli - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK


• Emmanuel Boss - University of Maine, USA


• Fei Chai - Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China


• Giorgio Dall’Olmo - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK


• Guifen Wang - Hohai University, China


• Guoqiang Qiu - Xiamen University, China


• Henry Bittig - Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France


• Hervé Claustre - Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France


• Ian Walsh - Sea-Bird Scientific, USA


• Joan Llort Jordi - University of Tasmania, Australia


• Jun Chen - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China


• Nick Hardman-Mountford - CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia


• Peng Xiu - South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, CAS, China


• Wenzhou Zhang - Xiamen University


• Xiaogang Xing - Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China


• Yi Chao - Seatrec, USA


• Zenghong Liu - Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China

Abstract submission deadline

• 4 April 2017


• Submission link

Objectives:

• To bring together the users of Argo data and other complementary observations, for operational oceanography and studies of the circulation and physical and biogeochemical properties of the oceans


• To stimulate research using Argo data, especially in combination with other data types and models.


• To allow users to widen their experience of the Euro-Argo community, welcome young scientists into that community and encourage their use of Argo data.


• To further increase the visibility of the Argo Programme beyond its core uses in physical oceanography and climate research


• Highlight the new fields of research activities allowed by the extensions of the core Argo program to new fields for research from Argo data (biogeochemistry, ocean acidification) and extended areas of interest (marginal seas, boundary currents, high latitudes)


• To provide an opportunity for users of Argo data to participate in discussions of how Argo should evolve within Europe and globally

Registration

• Please register here

Objectives

• With funding from the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) program, the inaugural meeting of the US BGC-Argo community will take place on May 23-24, 2017.


• The meeting will establish a US Biogeochemical-Argo Steering Committee (US BAS) which will provide a unified voice to the US BGC Argo community and Federal Agencies on issues related to a global biogeochemical Argo array. This will include issues related to operation of a data center, regional scale programs and improved technology