cc: p.williamson@uea.ac.uk date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:06:49 +0100 from: John Shepherd subject: Re: Fwd: Ocean carbon uptake to: Mike Hulme , h.j.Schellnhuber@uea.ac.uk, r.warren@uea.ac.uk, j.g.shepherd@soton.ac.uk Dear all I think it would be a Good Thing if Tyndall people (incl even me) were involved in this venture, in some way. This "non-warming" effects of CO2 (e.g. acidification, and so suppression of calcification (e.g. of corals)) is shaping up to be a major concern. Could be a very hot political potato indeed.... John At 14:17 16/07/2003 +0100, Mike Hulme wrote: John, Rachel and John, I guess this is most relevant for the three of you re. Tyndall CIAM. This seems an issue more for QUEST rather then core Tyndall territory, but I pass suggestion from Phil Williamson onto you anyway. Mike From: "Phil Williamson" To: "Mike Hulme" Cc: , "Tim Jickells" , "Philip Newton" , Subject: Ocean carbon uptake Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:22:12 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Mike - Martin Angel and Tim Jickells have both mentioned to me the discussion of ocean carbon uptake at the Tyndall Conference earlier this week. One way of involving the Tyndall Centre in future work in this area might be via attendance at a "town meeting" planned for later this year on future marine research programmes - with emphasis on interactions between biogeochemistry, ocean ecosystems and wider Earth System processes. This meeting is being organised by UK SCOR (Chair, Peter Burkill) and NERC (Phil Newton and myself). Likely to be November, but I don't yet have the date. A label for it may be "Defining the UK contribution to IMBER" where IMBER = Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry & Ecosystem Research. That's an IGBP/SCOR programme, temporarily known as OCEANS, that is being developed as a successor to JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study). Whilst nothing is certain, I would expect the processes affecting carbon uptake/release in the ocean depth range 500-1000m to be of special interest to UK researchers and internationally. Above those depths, SOLAS (Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere) now has lead responsibility. Either Tim or Peter Liss can tell you more about that, eg the NERC-funded UK SOLAS programme, soon to start. I hope this helpful Best regards Phil ***************** School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ dir tel 01603 593111 fax 01603 507714 [1]p.williamson@uea.ac.uk