Affiliated programs: IMBER-US, US SOLAS, NACP-OCB Coastal
Acronym: OCB
URL: Program Web Site
Start date: 2006
End date:
Geolocation: Global

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A new center for ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry in the geosciences	(ultrahigh res mass spec)
A study of the sensitivity of Sub-Antarctic Zone waters to global change	(SAZ-SENSE)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses	(ANACONDAS)
An Investigation of the Role of Nutrition in the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification	(OA,Nutrition & Coral Calcification)
Application of a novel geochemical approach to the alkalinity anomaly method of estimating coral reef calcification rates: implications of ocean acidification	(Implications of Ocean Acidification)
Atlantic Meridional Transect programme	(AMT)
Australian Integrated Marine Observing System Facility-Southern Ocean Time Series	(IMOS-SOTS)
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study	(BATS)
BErmuda ocean Acidification and COral reef iNvestigation	(BEACON)
Biogeochemical Impact and Fate of Non-phosphorus Membrane Lipids in the Sargasso Sea	(SargassoSeaLipids)
Biological Controls on the Ocean C:N:P ratios	(Biological C:N:P ratios)
California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site	(CCE LTER)
Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in Mode Water of the North Atlantic Ocean	(CarboMODE)
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Global Ocean CO2	(CDIAC Ocean CO2)
CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean Project	(CARIACO)
Cobalt, Iron and Micro-organisms from the Upwelling zone to the Gyre	(CoFeMUG)
Coccolithophores of the Patagonian Shelf 2008	(COPAS08)
Composition of the plankton community and its contribution to particle flux in the Sargasso Sea	(Plankton particle flux)
Controls of Ross Sea Algal Community Structure	(CORSACS)
Coral Reef Primary Production and Calcification	(CRPPC)
Determining rates of group-specific phytoplankton and bacterial uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen by means of stable isotope techniques	(Marine Nitrogen Cycling by Stable Isotope Probing)
DIMES, Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean	(DIMES)
Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in the Deep Atlantic Ocean	(Deep Atlantic DOM)
Do interactions between vertically and horizontally transported particles measurably affect particle composition and flux to the sediments? A mechanistic approach.	(BaRFlux)
Eastern Tropical Pacific	(ETP)
Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition	(EDDIES)
En-Gen: A functional genomic analysis of how a major calcifying phytoplankter responds to ocean acidification predicted for the end of the century	(En-Gen OA and E huxleyi)
FeCycle II- Natural variability in plankton iron quotas during an unamended Lagrangian experiment	(FeCycle II)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis	(GoMX NACP-OCB)
Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT): Sustaining ocean ecosystem and climate observations in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre	(HOT)
Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Thecosome Pteropods in Relation to Carbonate Chemistry in the Northwest Atlantic and Northeast Pacific	(OAPS)
Impact of ocean acidification on survival of early life stages of planktonic copepods in the genus Calanus	(OA Calanus Survival)
Improved observations and understanding of northeast Pacific coastal CO2 fluxes	(OCB-039)
Investigation of the Effects of CACO3 Saturation State & Temperature on the Calcification Rate & Skeletal Properties of Benthic Marine Calcifiers	(Ocean Acidification & Warming Impact on Calcification)
LIDAR Studies of Lateral Dispersion in the Seasonal Pycnocline	(LatMix)
Lipid lubrication of oceanic carbon and sulfur biogeochemistry via a host-virus chemical arms race	(LipidLubeCarbCycle)
Macrophyte-induced variability in coastal ocean pH and consequences for invertebrate larvae	(SeapHOx)
MedFlux collaborative research project	(MedFlux)
Nitrogen fixation, nutrient supply and biological production in the Gulf of Mexico	(GoMX - N2 Fixation)
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment 2008	(NAB 2008)
Oceanic diazotroph community structure and activities in a high carbon dioxide world	(DIAZOTROPHS-CO2)
Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency	(ON DEQUE)
Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site	(Palmer LTER)
Particle Transport and Carbon Export over the Northwest Atlantic Margin	(Carbon Export)
Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea	(Trophic BATS)
Primary Production Model Intercomparison: Primary Production Algorithm Round Robin 4	(PPARR4)
Processes Regulating Iron Supply at the Mesoscale - Ross Sea	(PRISM-RS)
Processes, feedbacks and air-sea carbon dioxide exchange in the land-coastal ocean system	(OCB-021)
Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic	(Trichodesmium)
Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle: Identifying Cell-density Dependent Organic Carbon Degradation among Marine Bacteria in Sinking Particles	(Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle)
Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of Intact Membrane Lipids in the Upper Ocean	(LipidCycling)
Sources of Iron to the EasterN tropical Atlantic	(SIRENA)
Southern Ocean Climate Process and Modeling Team	(SO-CPT)
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment	(SO_GasEx)
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment	(SOFeX)
The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget	(OCB-024)
The role of phytoplankton ballast material in deterring copepod grazing	(OCB-049)
Twilight Zone EXplorer	(TZEX)
VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean	(VERTIGO)