Working Group 17: Biogeochemical data integration and synthesis
  • Acronym: WG 17
  • Parent Committee: POC
  • Term: Oct. 2001 - Oct. 2005
  • Co-Chairs:
    Yukihiro Nojiri (Japan)
    Andrew G. Dickson (USA)
Key Tasks
  1. Develop a North Pacific database for ocean CO2 and related parameters in association with existing data centers. Advise data centers which of the available historical data sets should be assigned a high priority for acquisition and conversion to an electronically readable form;
  2. Prepare a written guide of best practices for oceanic CO2 measurements and data reporting. Carry out, as needed, inter-laboratory method comparisons to assure future measurement quality. Encourage the availability of suitable reference materials;
  3. Develop a strategy to co-ordinate the planning of future North Pacific measurement programs to ensure optimal use of resources to obtain appropriate temporal and spatial coverage as well as maximum comparability with historical data. Efforts should be made to encourage timely availability of the "new" data;
  4. Organize a symposium or an Annual Meeting Topic Session on the impacts of climate change on the carbon cycle in the North Pacific.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2004, 2003, 2002

Publication
Guide of best practices for oceanic CO2 measurements and data reporting
Database
North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase
Related Materials
See products of the Working Group on Carbon dioxide in the North Pacific - WG 13
Members as of October 2005
Mr. Robin Middleton Brown
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney, BC, Canada
Mr. John Page
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney, BC, Canada
Dr. Chi Shing (C.S.) Wong
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney, BC, Canada
Dr. Yukihiro Nojiri
Head, Carbon Cycle Research Laboratory
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Toru Suzuki
Marine Information Research Center (MIRC)
Japan Hydrographic Association
Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Shuichi Watanabe
Mutsu Research Group, Mutsu Institute for Oceanography (MIO)
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
Sekine, Japan
Dr. Yutaka Watanabe
Division of Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Dr. Tongsup Lee
Department of Marine Science Division of Earth Envrionmental System
Pusan National University
Pusan, R Korea
Dr. Andrey G. Andreev
Pacific Oceanological Institute
Vladivostok, Russia
Dr. Pavel Ya. Tishchenko
Head, Hydrochemistry Laboratory
Pacific Oceanological Institute
Vladivostok, Russia
Prof. Andrew G Dickson
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.
Dr. Steven R. Emerson
School of Oceanography
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dr. Richard A. Feely
Ocean Climate Research Division
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dr. Hernan Eduardo Garcia
Ocean Climate Laboratory
NOAA-NODC
Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Dr. Alexander Kozyr
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
Env. Sci. Div., Oak Ridge National Lab., U.S. Dept. of Energy
Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A.
Dr. Paul Quay
School of Oceanography
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dr. Christopher L. Sabine
Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
NOAA
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.