Monday, February 2, 2015
Short Course
Sharp Lecture Hall - Arms Building, California Institute of Technology

Time

Event

Speaker

08:15 - 08:45

Coffee and Refreshments

08:45 - 09:00

Linde Center Welcome

Paul Wennberg, Andy Thompson

09:00 - 09:45

Sustained Observations of the Southern Ocean: What is Happening, and What is Needed?

Mike Meredith

09:45 - 10:30

Meridional Overturning in the Southern Ocean

Andy Hogg

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Physical Controls on the Air-Sea Partitioning of Carbon

Ric Williams

11:45 - 12:30

A Nitrogen Isotope-Assisted View of Southern Ocean Nutrient Cycling

Danny Sigman

12:30 - 01:00

Walk to Keck Center / Registration

01:00 - 02:00

Lunch (provided for meeting attendees)

 

Invitation Only Workshop Begins Keck Center  - Think Tank, Room 155

Southern Ocean in the Climate System

02:00 - 03:00

Introductions, Meeting Overview, Plenary Discussion

Michele Judd, Andy Thompson, Nicolas Cassar

03:00 - 03:25

The Role of the Southern Ocean in Anthropogenic Climate Change

John Marshall

03:25 - 03:50

Detection of a Weakening Southern Ocean Carbon Sink

Nikki Lovenduski

03:50 - 04:10

Coffee and Refreshments

04:10 - 04:35

Biological Ramifications of Climate-Change Mediated Oceanic Multi-Stressors

Scott Doney

04:35 - 05:00

Modeling Southern Ocean Food Webs - Approaches and Challenges

Eileen Hofmann

05:00 - 05:30

Plenary Discussion: Key Open Science Questions at the PO/BGC Interface

05:30

Walk to the Athenaeum for a 6:00 PM dinner

Tuesday, February 3, 2015
 Keck Center  - Think Tank, Room 155

Southern Ocean Coastal Dynamics

Time

Event

Speaker

08:15 - 08:45

Coffee and Refreshments

08:45 - 09:10

The Length Scale of Physical Processes on the Antarctic Continental Shelves and Implications of this for Modeling Biogeochemical Cycles

Mike Dinniman

09:10 - 09:50

Freshwater Inputs to the Ocean at the West Antarctic Peninsula: Changes and Impacts

Mike Meredith & Nicolas Cassar

09:50 - 10:15

Using Different Flavours of Oxygen to Measure Biological Production from Ship- Based and Autonomous Platforms

Jan Kaiser

10:15 -10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:15

Project Overviews: SOCCOM, ORCAS, Oceans2Ice, DIMES

Johnson, Long, Naveira Garabato, Gille, Meredith

11:15 - 12:15

Break-out groups: Current Technologies

12:15 - 01:45

Lunch  (Atheneaum)

02:00 - 02:20

Break-out group reports

Southern Ocean Overturning and Ventilation

02:20 - 02:45

Impacts and Effects of Southern Ocean Eddies on Ocean Carbon Storage and Atmospheric pCO2

D. Marshall

02:45 - 03:10

Propping Open the Southern Ocean Door to the Deep Ocean: An Update with an Eddy-permitting Climate Model.

Joellen Russell

03:10 - 03:35

The Role of Multi-year Variability on Anthropogenic Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Southern Ocean Inferred from Model Simulations and Repeat Observations

Richard Matear

03:35 - 04:00

Southern Ocean Buoyancy Forcing of Ocean Ventilation, and Glacial Atmospheric CO2 Change

Andy Watson

04:00 - 06:00

Break & Poster Session I

Talley, Couto, Lauderdale, Wang, Mazloff, Doney, J. Marshall, Freeman, Ito

06:30

Optional No-Host Dinner in Pasadena

Wednesday, February 4, 2015  
Keck Center  - Think Tank, Room 155

Physics and Biology from Mesoscale to the Microscale (Lightning talks)

Time

Event

Speaker

08:15 - 08:45

Coffee and Refreshments

08:45 - 09:00

Ocean Submesoscale Dynamics

Jim McWilliams

09:00 - 09:10

The Role of Circulation Change and Eddies in Southern Ocean Heat Uptake and Transport

Adele Morrison

09:10 - 09:20

Mesoscale Eddy Mixing Across the Antarctic Shelf Break

Andrew Stewart

09:20 - 09:30

A Microscale View of Mixing and Overturning Across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Alberto Naveira Garbato

09:30 - 10:00

Discussion

10:00 - 10:30

Break

Physics and Biology from Mesoscale to the Microscale

10:30 - 10:50

Do Sub-Mesoscales Control Vertical Iron Transport in the Southern Ocean

Andy Hogg

10:50 - 11:10

How do Various Iron Sources Fuel Phytoplankton Growth in the Southern Ocean?

Kevin Arrigo

11:10 - 11:30

The Seasonal Dynamics of Iron Supply, Biological Consumption & Cycling in the Southern Ocean

Phil Boyd

11:30 - 12:30

Breakout Session: Regional Studies, Where Should We Go Study?

12:30 - 02:15

Lunch at Keck Center & Poster Session II

Chereskin, Gille, Boyd, Morrison, Frenger,  Naveira Garabato, Sigman, Lauderdale

02:15 - 02:30

Breakout Group Reports

The Southern Ocean in past climates (Lightning talks)

02:30 - 02:40

Diatom Assemblage Nitrogen Isotopic Evidence for Late Summer Nitrate Exhaustion in the Antarctic During Glacial Maxima

Danny Sigman

02:40 - 02:50

Ocean Circulation and Carbon Budget at the Last Glacial Maximum

Raffaele Ferrari

02:50 - 03:00

Making AABW Salty With Buoyancy Feedbacks From the North

Jess Adkins

03:00 - 03:30

Discussion

03:30 - 04:00

Walk to Sharp Lecture Hall

Environmental Science and Engineering Lecture
Sharp Lecture Hall - Arms Building

04:00 - 05:00

Title TBD

Ralph Keeling

05:15 - 06:00

ESE Reception

06:30

Dinner at the Athenaeum

Thursday, February 5 , 2015
 Keck Center  - Think Tank, Room 155

3D Southern Ocean Pathways

Time

Event

Speaker

08:15 - 08:45

Coffee and Refreshments

08:45 - 09:05

Three-Dimensional Pathways of the Northern Deep Waters to the Southern Ocean Surface

Lynne Talley

09:05 - 09:25

Upper Ocean Variability Across Southern Ocean Fronts

Andy Thompson

09:25 - 09:45

Climate Sensitivity to Sequestration of Heat and Carbon

Ric Williams

09:45 - 10:15

Discussion and Organization of Meeting Report

10:15 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:05

Wind, Mixed-Layer Depth and Chl-a Variability in the Southern Ocean

Sarah Gille

11:05 - 11:25

Residual Overturning Circulation and Water Mass Transformation in the Southern Ocean State Estimate: Insights from Online Model Diagnostics

Ryan Abernathey

11:25 - 12:30

Plenary: Meeting Summary, Routes to Future Collaboration, Organization of Afternoon Sub-groups

12:30 - 02:00

Lunch

02:00 - 05:00

Small Group Meetings (Tolman/Bacher rooms available)

05:00

Workshop  Concludes