We are soliciting seminars for the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Benthic Ecosystems and Carbon Synthesis (BECS) working group (https://www.us-ocb.org/becs/).
We will be hosting bimonthly (or monthly if sufficient interest) webinars on a range of topics, including:
- Benthic biogeochemical fluxes (carbon, oxygen, and nutrients)
- Benthic boundary layer dynamics
- Benthic ecosystems (community ecology, ecosystem-environment interactions)
- Organic matter transformations
- Methods / Techniques
- Human interactions
- Global change
- Syntheses
For these seminars, we are focused on the coastal and open ocean, not estuaries, and are interested primarily in observational studies (though if you have an interesting modeling study, please do not hesitate to submit.)
Each seminar should be 20-25 minutes in length, and we plan to offer two per webinar with time for discussion at the end. If you are more comfortable pre-recording your seminar and/or you would like to practice your seminar before presenting we are happy to help. Please add a note in the comment section if this is the case. We are eager to highlight the work of early career researchers and scientists and we particularly encourage those from the Global South to submit an abstract.
