2012 GEOTRACES SSC MEETING October 2012 List of action items

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1 2012 GEOTRACES SSC MEETING October 2012 List of action items 1. Action: Bob Anderson to inform IPO of US Atlantic data synthesis workshop (March, 11-15) and Pacific cruise logistics Conf (April). 2. Action: Gideon Henderson to start a forum on Pa and Th to begin a comparison of crossover station results, section results, interpretations, some of which may be controversial. 3. Action: IPO and GDAC to communicate to coordinate the preparation of interactive maps for the web sites. 4. Action: Each SSC member to remind colleagues to include GEOTRACES in key words and to submit PDF of publications to the IPO. 5. Action: IPO to add references about atmospheric environment to the database. Could be extracted from the different presentations that were given by the national Committees 6. Action: IPO to consider alternatives to Mendeley that will be more user-friendly and/or that will have greater searching capabilities. It is desirable to have a database that allows the user to click on a title and be linked either to a PDF of the paper or to the publication database (e.g., the abstracts of the paper that is available from the publisher). 7. Action: IPO to include Masters dissertations along with PhD dissertations.. 8. Action: Each SSC member to inform IPO and GDAC of upcoming cruises. 9. Action: IPO to put on the agenda for next SSC, when the intermediate product will be more closer to release, to discuss whether a short or similar version of the synthesis document sent to IYPE be published and the content of it. 10. Action: Re: Special volumes: Gideon and Phoebe to prepare a 1-page summary of an option to place early papers in an EGU open access journal and summary papers in a more traditional journal. 11. Action: Each SSC member to submit good ideas about outreach and selling the program to the IPO. IPO to compile the list and distribute it for discussion among SSC members by . 1

2 12. Action: Each SSC member to put together at least one compelling image or fact to advertise the program. Provide sufficient text to explain why the findings/data are important. 13. Action: IPO to create library of images. 14. Action: IPO to create a Facebook page. Andy Bowie to advise on its construction and content. 15. Action: IPO to test various clients for successful viewing of the GEOTRACES Newsletter. Include a web link to say click here if you cannot view this image or something like that. 16. Action: IPO to add Facebook link on the e-newsletter? 17. Action: Each SSC member to poll their students for recommendations about using Facebook and Twitter to publicize GEOTRACES. 18. Action: IPO to create an account on Twitter? For short and very important information. 19. Action: SSC members attending fall AGU to attend town hall meeting where Future Earth will be presented. 20. Action: Bob to contact PIs for each group measuring Pa/Th, Nd, d13c, d15n, Cd/PO4 Zn/Si (Maeve). Request data and preliminary features to illustrate exciting new findings. 21. Action: Each SSC member to remind colleagues to submit data to GDAC by end of December. 22. Action: Each SSC member to inform colleagues to copy Ed Mawji when submitting data to national data centres. 23. Action: Reiner Schlitzer & Chris Measures to produce a document recommending unit conversion procedure. 24. Action: S&I Committee to make a recommendation for units for gas measurements. 25. Action: S&I Committee to follow that where data have error bars that vary from sample to sample, then individual error estimates are reported with data. 26. Action: SSC members to remind investigators to use data flags: ODV flag is the easiest but tell Ed which one you are using 2

3 27. Action: SSC co-chairs to make a formal request for INCOIS to act as the DAC for India. 28. Action: Each SSC member to give GDAC feedback on interactive map. 29. Action: GDAC to send a reminder to add GEOTRACES-compliant data. 30. Action: Phoebe Lam, Maeve Lohan, Andy Bowie and Alakendra Roychoudhury to form a group on particle intercalibration. 31. Action: Maeve to contact GEEL about Med Sea and Dyfamed TSS. 32. Action: Th/Pa group to conduct an informal review of crossover station data: US- UK-German. 33. Action: Maeve to coordinate with Ken Bruland about publishing a brief report describing TM intercalibration. 34. Action: GEOTRACES methods cookbook: S&I Committee to contact authors of each section to see if any changes are needed. 35. Action: Maeve to send the contact of Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society ACCESS project to Per Andersson. 36. Action: Catherine Jeandel and Geraldine Sarthou to ask Matthieu Roy-Barman French SW collaboration with Per Andersson on the Arctic? 37. Action: Catherine to clairify who will do what for Nd and REE in the Med Sea. 38. Action: Re BIOGEOTRACES : GDAC to manage in the future: - Macronutrients, chlorophyll, PAR - Flow cytometry - HPLC pigments (21 pigments ) - DNA abundance of differents ecotypes Also, useful but too few measurements (optional): - Rate measurement (Primary and secondary productivity) - Trace metal transport kinetics, half saturation constants, max growth rates - Trace metal uptake ratios 39. Action: Ed Mawji to discuss with Ben Twining what would be involved to decide if/how metal/nutrient elemental ratio data should be included in GDAC. 40. Action: Maps of cruise tracks, GDAC to try with different formats to represent cruises that have low spatial resolution. Maybe just show individual stations. 3

4 41. Action: SSC representatives at LA workshop: discuss the 2 remaining sections in the AO during the workshop. 42. Action: Re Indian Ocean: Catherine and Andy to discuss about the GI05 cruise track and cross over stations. GDAC to modify the map accordingly. 43. Action: Re Arctic: GDAC to update the map after the Moscow meeting as the map on the web site is very different from the map that came out from the last meeting. 44. Action: Andy to talk with Steve Rintoul about a full GEOTRACES section along SR3 before the end of the decade. 45. Action: IPO to put on next year agenda, review plans for IPY synthesis and for future cruises in the Southern Ocean to consider if a Southern Ocean planning workshop is desired. 46. Action: Reiner and Katharina Pahnke to talk with German colleagues about repeating the Drake Passage choke point with full suite of GEOTRACES Key TEIs. 47. Action: Ed Urban to show in kind income such as Indian contribution to the SSC meeting expenses, Brazilian contribution to the Latin American workshop. 48. Action: Looking for people who are interested in leading the COST action. Particle speciation vs contaminants Maeve and Catherine? 49. Action: Maeve to speak with Paul Worsfold about a Chemistry-Earth Science joint COST Action. 50. Action: SSC to define criteria for adding compliant data that provides crucial data for GEOTRACES science goals without overwhelming Ed Mawji. 51. Action: Gideon to write a letter of support for DUST-EX to review by the SSC and tentatively endorse the experiment. 52. Action: Gideon to draft the new criteria for process studies and distribute them to the SSC. 53. Action: DMC to address how to link historical data to GDAC. 54. Action: Each SSC member to look for compiled data sets and for heroes to compile historical data sets to be linked to the suite of historical GDAC data. 55. Action: IPO to request SSC members about valuable compiled historical data. 4

5 56. Action: Bob to report to OCB SSC the decision of the GEOTRACS SSC. Ask OCB if they would be interested in a more limited partnership to introduce the OCB community to GT data. 57. Action: Pinghe Cai to discuss usefulness of PICES in China 58. Action: Maite Maldonado to ask Jay Cullen about usefulness of PICES in Canada 59. Action: SSC representatives at Russia Workshop to ask Russians colleagues how useful involvement in PICES would be. 5