Events

  • October 2009
    Dr. Andrés Gutiérrez (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona) arrived to begin his postdoctoral research with Mike Landry on microplankton community dynamics in the California Current and Costa Rica Dome.
  • 13-16 September 2009
    CCE was well represented at the 2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting (ASM) in Estes Park, Colorado with 15 participants present, including PI's, grad students, the IM team, and program office manager. Many CCE posters were presented, and most are viewable here (see 2009 ASM Posters).

    Graduate student meeting
    During the ASM in Estes Park, a group of 19 graduate students and 1 post-doc from CCE, SBC and MCR LTERs met informally (headed by Ally Pasulka, CCE) to begin talking about potential future interactions between these three sites. As a result of this meeting, we are planning a second graduate student symposium for the fall of 2010 and establishing a listserv for the graduate students and post-docs of these sites to increase the ease of communication. Lastly, we are beginning a conversation about potential cross-site science that will be facilitated by graduate students and post-docs from these three sites.

    CCE students Moira Décima And Darcy Taniguchi lead a graduate student working group at the ASM concerning the top-down control of autotrophic biomass in both aquatic and terrestrial systems. The main points of discussion during the meeting were the definitions of top-down control, the effects of predators on autotrophs, and examples of top-down control from various LTER sites. The post-workshop goal is to suggest predator exclusion and nutrient addition experiments across LTER sites to compare these different controls across ecosystems, using standard and similar methodologies.

    Information Management Meeting
    The LTER Information Management Committee (IMC) met the day before the ASM for their annual meeting including working groups this year on Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Planning and Governance, Controlled Vocabulary, Unit Dictionary, and GIS. CCE LTER Informatics Team members contributed as co-chairs of the IM Governance Committee and Unit Working Groups. Lynn Yarmey reported on a Unit Dictionary Best Practices Guideline. Karen Baker was elected a member of the Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC). Mason Kortz and James Conners prototyped an LTER Unit Registry and joined a new Web Services Working Group. A cluster of IM posters provided an evening venue for discussions.

    Ocean Acidification Working Group
    Mark Ohman (CCE) and Russ Schmitt (MCR) co-chaired a well-attended session on Ocean Acidification Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems and Communities. The workshop set the stage for future comparative studies across different coastal LTER sites, as part of the developing ISSE initiative.
  • September 2009
    Dr. Diego Macías (University of Cadiz, Span) arrived to begin his postdoctoral research with Peter Franks and Mike Landry on biogeochemical and population modeling for the CCE study region.
  • 2-21 August 2009
    Several CCE graduate students participated in the SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) cruise to quantify plastic debris in the Central North Pacific Gyre.
  • 13-17 July 2009
    Dave Checkley collaborated in Japan with Dr. Yoshioki Oozeki of the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Yokohama, to compare the spawning habitats of anchovy and sardine off Japan and North America.
  • 13-16 July 2009
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Nicole Kaplan, co-chair of the LTER Information Management Committee (IMC), from SGS LTER visited SIO/UCSD/ LTER to continue IMC governance working group activities.
  • Summer 2009
    There were nine undergraduate REUs (project descriptions) hosted by various CCE LTER research labs over a 10 week period this past summer at SIO. Each student worked with a mentor (PI, grad student or post-doc) on a specific element of CCE science, attended cross-lab visits of other fellow REUs, and attended informal pizza lunches with mentors on alternate Fridays to discuss their research progress, future educational goals, and many other interesting topics! At the end of the 10 week session, the REUs presented their research amongst a packed room of CCE members who were a vital part of their summer experience at SIO (Flyer)
  • 15-18 June 2009
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Sonja Palfner from Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany visited SIO/UCSD/LTER to discuss cyberinfrastructure with an interest in sociotechnical dimensions of arrangements, the role of information management, and the LTER network configuration. Her tour of infrastructure studies centers in the United States is summarized in a Spring 2009 Databits newsletter article.
  • 9-10 June 2009 PACOOS Zooplankton Workshop on Data and Information Infrastructure for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) including Mexico, USA and Canada held at SIO, La Jolla, CA. Co-convened by Jonathan Phinney, Karen Baker, and Sharon Mesick. Attended by Mark Ohman and Tony Koslow.
  • June / July 2009
    Two SIO graduate students (Alison Cawood and Moira Decima) from CCE were awarded one year Scripps graduate student fellowships in the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program. Sponsored by NSF, the fellowships provide funding to graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers. Alison and Moira have partnered this summer with teachers from San Diego-area schools to develop and implement science lessons for the classrooms, as well as advance their science communication skills. More information can be found at http://explorations.ucsd.edu/Around_the_Pier/2009/July_August/Staudigel/ In addition, on 8 July, lead PI Mark Ohman gave a science overview to the GK-12 teachers who will be sponsoring Alison and Moira in their classrooms this coming academic year, to build a bridge between CCE and local high school teachers.
  • 28-29 May 2009
    CCE Annual Meeting: The CCE annual meeting took place at SIO. On 28 May results from the recently completed graduate student process cruise were highlighted, together with some results from the A-front study in October 2008 (on CCE-P0810). On 29 May updates of different program elements were presented. Preliminary discussions addressed themes for our renewal proposal, forthcoming in late 2009. (pdf)
  • 13-14 May 2009
    LTER Science Council Meeting: CCE hosted the 2009 U.S. LTER Network Science Council Meeting, which was attended by representatives from each U.S. LTER site, the Network Office, and the National Advisory Board. The meeting venue was the La Jolla Shores hotel, though there was a half day 'field trip' to the SIO pier where a variety of different seagoing measurement methods were highlighted, capped off by two overviews of CCE modeling activities. (pdf)
  • 1-2 May 2009
    Ecotrends State Changes working group: Mark Ohman participated in the LTER Ecotrends Ecological State Changes working group in Las Cruces, NM.
  • 22 April - 3 May 2009
    Graduate Student Process Cruise: A student-initiated, student-run cruise took place in the primary CCE study region off line 80. A science party of 15, including graduate students, a postdoc, SRA, and several capable volunteers carried out experiments on 2 Lagrangian "cycles" and completed a study of an upwelling front.
  • 21 February 2009
    Birch Aquarium at Scripps Family Day Event highlighting the LTER children's book "Sea Secrets: Tiny Clues to a Big Mystery". Activities at the book signing event with author Beth Simmons and artist, illustrator Kirsten Carlson focus on two ocean ecosystems - the California Current and Palmer Station, Antarctica - and include a story book nook, field artifact displays, and lessons on how to draw marine animals.
  • 18 January 2009
    CCE LTER Forum (No. 4), SIO, La Jolla, CA Participants will present and discuss data and analysis of an intensively sampled feature called 'A-front Study' from the recent LTER CCE-P0810 process cruise (30 Sep - 29 Oct 2008).
  • 15-19 Dec 2008 American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting in San Francisco. A cross-institutional informatics led initiative with three sessions titled 'Strategies for Improved Marine and Synergistic Data Access and Interoperability' was held (co-organizers: C.Chandler, K.Baker, and J.Graybeal). Oral presentations by CCE related participants K.Baker and S.Jackson.
  • 15-16 December 2008
    NERC Scoping workshop: Mark Ohman gave 2 invited presentations about the CCE site and U.S. LTER program to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) scoping workshop on biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability in Reading, U.K.
  • 9 December 2008
    CCE LTER Forum (No. 3), SIO, La Jolla, CA Qian Li, one of CCE's post doctoral researchers, discussed his modeling research that will be presented as a poster at the American Geophysical Union conference this month. The informatics team streamed a live video of the meeting and archived it for availability.
  • 10 November 2008
    CCE-1 interdisciplinary ocean mooring deployed. A cooperative effort between Mark Ohman, Uwe Send, Chris Sabine, Dave Demer, and John Hildebrand led to the deployment of a deep water mooring in the CCE study site. Located 250 kilometers southwest of Point Conception at CalCOFI station 80.80, which is also a CCE cardinal station located along a Spray ocean glider line, this 4,000 meter instrumented mooring will enable resolution of event-scale changes in the CCE site. News and the web site provide description of the mooring and access to data.
  • 30 September - 29 October 2008
    Third process cruise CCE-P0810 aboard R/V Melville (ship, participants)
  • September 2008
    LTER children's book 'Sea Secrets: Tiny Clues to a Big Mystery' authored by Beth Simmons and Mary Cerullo with illustrations by Kirsten Carlson released as cross-site project of CCE and PAL sites ( CCE, SIO )
  • 25 July 2008
    CCE diel water column sampling for fish is being extended spatially. Pete Davison's participation on a NOAA SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey cruise (July-Dec) provides sampling within the CalCOFI sampling region in coordination with the third CCE LTER process cruise planned for October. Use of diel-migrating biomass, ingestion and egestion rate measurements from the CCE cruise will be used with community composition and trawl capture efficiency measurements from cruises with EK60 acoustic data collection as a multi-platform sampling strategy for ecological modeling.
  • 25 July 2008
    CCE LTER Forum (No. 2), SIO, La Jolla, CA
    Lihini Aluwihare, one of CCE's co-PIs, discussed recent results from her studies of dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition and cycling in the California Current, and highlighted outstanding questions and potential new research areas that could be pursued using the methods developed during the current investigation.
  • 17-18 July 2008
    Stephane Couture, graduate student at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), College of Library and Information Studies visited SIO/UCSD/LTER to discuss source code as an artifact and its relations to human language.
  • 8 July 2008
    Participation in Ocean Acidity Workshop, SIO, La Jolla, CA.
  • Summer 2008
    CCE LTER hosted five undergraduate interns (REUs 2008), who worked in SIO research labs for 10 weeks (late June - early September). They worked on a wide variety of CCE-related science components, and were mentored by CCE PIs, as well as advised by graduate students and post docs. Informal lunches were held on alternate Fridays to discuss their research and to promote dialogue between everyone involved. ( pdf )
  • 16-18 June 2008
    Ocean Informatics Monograph Working Group, hosted at SIO, La Jolla (flyer) attended by Karen Baker and Florence Millerand. (pdf)
  • 30 May 2008
    CCE LTER Forum, SIO, La Jolla, CA. The first CCE LTER Forum was held, with Ralf Goericke discussing the augmented CalCOFI cruise data measurements. These informal (monthly) meetings will focus on discussions between CCE participants and their data at hand.
  • 29 May 2008
    CCE LTER Graduate student and Post-doc Symposium, SIO, La Jolla, CA. The first CCE LTER Graduate student and Post-doc Symposium was held, representing LTER members from three sites - CCE, SBC, and MCR. About 30 people attended. (pdf)
  • 18-22 May 2008
    LTER Training Workshop on XML, LTER Information Managers at the LTER Network Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Attended by James Conners.
  • 7-8 May 2008
    LTER Science Council Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Attended by Mark Ohman and Karen Baker.
  • 10 April 2008
    UCOP meeting, UCSB, CA UCOP meeting at UCSB to discuss "UC-LTER" coordinated research. Attended by Mark Ohman and Kathy Barbeau.
  • 20 March 2008
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Kristen Yarmey, library science graduate student, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss data curation, information boundaries, and the library perspective.
  • 2-7 March 2008
    Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL. Many CCE LTER members presented posters and/or talks.
  • 09 February 2008
    CCE-Ocean Institute Education-Outreach, Dana Point, CA Girls in Ocean Sciences Teen Conference, Alexis Pasulka
  • 06 February 2008
    SWFSC Lecture, La Jolla, CA
    Information Management Strategies: Data, Metadata, and Change, Karen Baker
  • 05 February 2008
    Scripps Scientists Peg Wind as the Force Behind Fish Booms and Busts, SIO Press Release, Dave Checkley and Ryan Rykaczewski
  • February 2008
    Presentation at Pacific Seabird Group at Blaine, WA and ASLO Ocean Sciences. Orlando, FL; Climate Change, Upwelling, and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Gulf of the Farallones, CA ( pdf )
  • 22 January 2008
    UCSB Marine Science Colloquium, Santa Barbara, CA
    Iron limitation of phytoplankton in subsurface chlorophyll maxima of the eastern Pacific, Kathy Barbeau
  • 15 January 2008
    UCSB Marine Science Colloquium, Santa Barbara, CA
    Nonlinear ecosystem transitions: The California Current Ecosystem LTER site, Mark Ohman
  • 11 January 2008
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Sabine Grabner, MCR LTER information manager, visited to discuss information management, data systems, and an SDSC data turbine class.
  • Winter 2007
    UCSD/SIO-286 Winter Quarter 2007-2008 graduate class: Science, Conflict and Policy. Project video including CCE LTER participants: "Ecosystem Based Management: The Holy Grail".
  • 11-13 December 2007
    Digital Curation Conference, Washington DC; Title of best peer-reviewed paper awarded to "Digital Data Practises and the Long Term Ecological Research Programme" by Helena Karasti (University of Oulu in Finland), Karen S Baker (SIO, UCSD in USA) and Katharina Schleidt (Umweltbundesant in Austria).
  • 11 November 2007
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Shaun Haber, web master with Warner Brothers visited to discuss Datazoo, Drupal and application programming interfaces (APIs).
  • 02 November 2007
    CICESE/IMECOCAL - Ocean Informatics Data Meeting, La Jolla, CA
    Event Flyer
  • 17-18 September 2007
    CCE LTER Site Review, SIO, La Jolla; Agenda
  • 05 September 2007
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Anna Gold, MIT science and engineering librarian, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss library informatics, information roles, and uptake.
  • September 2007
    SOLOPC: A New Instrument to Measure the Biological Pump, 2007 Class Student Film Rebecca Asch, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training, CMBC and IOD
  • 18 August 2007
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Anne Graham, MIT civil engineering librarian, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss libraries and data issues.
  • 02-04 August 2007
    LTER Information Manager Committee Meeting, San Jose, CA; Group Photo; Unit Task Force Launch & Unit Registration Process Initiated; Photo
  • 23-24 July 2007
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Inigo San Gil, LTER Network Office Application Support Specialist, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss ocean informatics, data integration and EML implementation.
  • 16 May 2007
    LTER Science Meeting, Portland State University, Oregon; Ecosystem Services Workshop; Trends Workshop
  • 23 April 2007
    UCSD Spring Quarter Graduate Seminar Class; SIO 279: California Current Ecosystem Dynamics
  • 03 April 2007
    UCSD Spring Quarter Undergraduate Class; SIO 101: California Current Oceanography
  • 02-21 April 2007
    Second Process cruise (CCE-P0704) aboard R/V Thompson (ship, participants)
  • 30 January 2007
    LTER ISSE: Science Task Force Meeting (Framework, LTER Loop Slide, CCE BioEco Loop Slide)
  • 23-24 January 2007
    CCE LTER Annual Meeting, SIO, La Jolla; Group Photo; Graduate Student Meeting
  • 21 December 2006
    LTER Discussions with Arden Bement (Director, NSF), SIO, La Jolla
  • 08 December 2006
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Cyndy Chandler, WHOI JGOFS data manager, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss ocean informatics, design sessions and an oceanographic manuscript.
  • 01 December 2006
    CCE LTER Brochure created and posted online
  • 20-21 November 2006
    P0605 post-Process Cruise Meeting, SIO, La Jolla
  • 21-23 October 2006
    Joint US-Japan Meeting, Yokohama, Japan
  • 18 October 2006
    News Release: Ocean Data Confirms Fishing Puts Targets Species in 'Double Jeopardy' (SIO, NSF)
  • 09 October 2006
    LTER Presentation in New Director Series, SIO, La Jolla
  • 20-23 September 2006
    LTER All Scientists Meeting at Estes Park, CO; Participants
  • 18 August 2006
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Cyndy Chandler, WHO JGOFS data manager, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss cyberinfrastructure, ocean informatics, and data management.
  • August 2006
    Life in Slow Motion: The Physics Behind the Biology of the California Current
  • 1 August 2006
    LTER Featured Site (png)
  • July - August 2006
    RET Teacher Workshops (jpg)
  • June - September 2006
    Science Studies Summer Student & Social Informatics Team (jpg)
  • 8 May - 8 June 2006
    First Process Cruise (CCE-P0605) aboard R/V Knorr. (ship, participants)
  • 16 March 2006
    Ocean Informatics Visitor, La Jolla, CA. Deana Pennington from the LTER Network Office, visited UCSD/SIO/LTER to discuss ontologies and to give two preventations on metadata activities.
  • 5 January 2006
    News Release: Warming of the California Current reported in Science (SIO), (NSF)
  • 5 December 2005
    First Annual CCE Site Meeting, Agenda, Group Photo, and Newsletter Article at La Jolla
  • 28 November 2005
    Ocean Institute-Dana Point Sampling Coordination Workshop, at SIO, La Jolla
  • 7-9 November 2005
    SCOR working group 125, Global Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series
  • 31 October - 2 November 2005
    U.S.-Japan workshop on Global Change Research
  • 31 October 2005
    Teacher Professional Growth Workshop
  • 13 October 2005
    Launch of first CCE Spray glider
  • 10 October 2005
    LTER planning grant activities (ppt)
  • 30 September 2005
    Sea Trials, Moving Vessel Profiler
  • 09-11 August 2005
    Marine Metadata Interoperability Workshop, at UCAR, Boulder, CO (pdf)
  • 08 August 2005
    Presentation and Discussion with the Palmer Station LTER site at the PAL annual meeting (pdf), at SIO, La Jolla
  • 05 August 2005
    CCE Informatics presentation at annual LTER Information Manager Meeting (ppt), at Montreal, Canada
  • 10 July 2005
    COSMOS Summer School
  • 08 June 2005
    Invited testimony, House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans (pdf), Washington, D.C.
  • 06 June 2005
    California Current Krill Advisory Committee Meeting, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla
  • 17 March 2005
    Invited Presentation before the Ocean Studies Board, SIO, La Jolla
  • 05 March 2005
    SIO Council CCE Presentation (pdf), (avi)
  • 11 February 2005
    SBC-CCE Cross-Site Meeting Overviews SBC (pdf), CCE (pdf)
  • February 2005
    Marine Sites Climate Change Presentation at LTER CC Meeting (pdf), NSF
  • 02 December 2004
    Science Authors visit UCSD Preuss School
  • 01 December 2004
    CCE LTER Network News Article
  • 05 November 2004
    Ocean Informatics Exchange Workshop, La Jolla, CA. An information exchange workshop was held with computational infrastructure and data management participants attending from SIO and WHOI.
  • 01 September 2004
    CCE Field Sampling Station Plan (ppt)
  • 24 August 2004
    Launching of CCE
  • 21 August 2004
    CCE LTER Presentation at LTER CC Meeting (pdf), Alaska
  • 01 August 2004
    NSF Press Release about two new Coastal Sites (doc), (ppt)
  • 13 January 2004
    CCE LTER Proposal (pdf), Award (NSF/OCE #0417616)