The GOMO Observer

Edition: Winter 2023

Message from the Director

I am very excited to once again communicate through our GOMO newsletter. Kudos to Jessica Mkitarian, and our Knauss Fellows Jesse Gwinn and Sarah Tucker, for their tireless efforts to increase the number of GOMO stories and news items accessible through various NOAA channels.

As you will note below, the 18th Arctic Report Card was introduced at the Fall AGU meeting. Organized and led by our Arctic Research Program team (shout out to Sarah and Sandy!), the Report Card notes that the Arctic remains a key region of significant climate change that impacts a wide range of local communities. These changes enabled GOMO to successfully seek and receive a small amount of IRA funding to advance our Arctic activities (see our story below on a call for proposals).

At the end of another busy year, it’s a natural time to reflect on our many accomplishments. We are undertaking an effort to assemble and share some of these achievements in, and out of, the ocean. No doubt we will have many items from your Progress Reports to highlight.

With 2023 drawing to a close, on behalf of all of GOMO, we wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.

Happy Holidays!

David Legler

Upcoming Events & Important Dates

• 2023 Arctic Report Card Stakeholder Briefing: Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT. NOAA Leadership and several authors will provide key takeaways and insights on the newly released Card. Register here.

• NOAA Enterprise Data Management Workshop (EDMW): May 13-17. Deadline to propose a session is Friday, December 22, 2023. EDMW will be fully virtual with the theme "Bridging the Gap: Ensuring Seamless Data Flow from Acquisition to Access." This could be a great opportunity to get people together, share best practices, lessons learned, and future initiatives. If you have ideas or concepts for a session, please submit them here. For questions, email the planning team: edmw.planning.team@noaa.gov.

• AMS Meeting 2024: Jan. 28-Feb. 1, 2024 | Baltimore, MD 

GOMO at AMS: GOMO and CPO are hosting the Town Hall, Community Opportunity to Engage with NOAA to Provide Input on Process Study Field Campaigns to Advance the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) and International Initiatives Tues., Jan. 30.

• Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM): Feb. 18-24, 2024 | New Orleans, LA

GOMO at OSM:

GOMO is hosting a 2-day International GO-SHIP Science Committee meeting by invitation. Please reach out to Kathy Tedesco if you are interested in attending. 

GOMO, OAP and OCB are organizing a new workshop: "Biogeochemical Observing and Modeling Workshop: Connecting Observations to Models: Thursday, Feb. 22, 12:00-2:00. Submit your interest in the workshop.

GOMO and the US Argo Consortium are hosting a Town Hall, "Making Optimal Use of Argo Data" on Thursday, Feb. 22,  12:45-1:45.

GOMO and CPO are hosting a Town Hall, "Community Opportunity for Input and Engagement: Process Study Field Campaigns in the Tropical Pacific to Advance the Tropical Pacific Observing System and NOAA’s Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge" Wed., Feb 21, 10:45 - 11:45.

• MTS Buoy Workshop - May 20-23, 2024 | Sequim, WA

Funding Opportunities

GOMO's Arctic Research Program announced a new funding opportunity through the IRA:  NOFO on Arctic Data Management and Climate Resilience. The deadline for Letter of Intent to competition managers is Jan. 11, 2024.

NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program and GOMO announced a funding opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Carbon Observing Optimization Studies. Full proposals are due Mar 17, 2024.

Find more details on our new funding opportunities page.

Program Updates

David Legler Selected as SES Director of GOMO

After a rigorous and open recruitment process, David Legler has been selected to the Senior Executive Service (SES) level Director of GOMO, effective Monday, December 4, 2023. Elevating the Director of GOMO to SES status is a reflection of the importance of global ocean observing and monitoring towards NOAA's mission, and a reflection of the great work within GOMO. This appointment will offer more opportunities to articulate the importance of GOMO’s work and its relevance to NOAA's mission and public benefit. It also empowers David to lead and collaborate more effectively across NOAA and within the federal government. 

In his email announcement, David noted “it is a huge honor to be selected as the first SES Director of GOMO. We have an excellent team who inspires me every day to do my best to support their efforts. Thank you for your support!" 

GOMO Team Updates

Kathy Tedesco receives NOAA Team Member of the Year Award in Leadership. Kathy's work has advanced OAR and NOAA's critical leadership role in carbon cycle science leading to innovative information, products, and services that allow the world to understand, predict, and combat climate change. She has done so through consensus building across a disparate community of scientists, co-development of research and observing priorities leading to strategic investments in impactful research, and steadfast leadership of US and international carbon cycle science in a rapidly evolving field of study. She is a deeply respected and exemplary supervisor who provides thoughtful mentorship of numerous GOMO employees. Congratulations, Kathy!

Ann Zinkann Completes UCAR Leadership Training. The Leadership, Exploration, and Development (LEAD) Program is a six-month interactive, virtual training that provides supervisors with fundamental concepts, tools and skills related to: what it means to be a supervisor, effective communication, creating an ethical, diverse, and welcoming environment, managing staff performance, maximizing employee potential and growth through coaching, and building high performance teams. Congratulations, Ann!

Meredith Kurz and LCDR Jeffrey Pereira Completes NOAA's Mid-Career Leadership Development Program (MCLDP). MCLDP is NOAA's nine-month interactive and virtual program providing mid-career employees with training that enlightens and fortifies their leadership journey, ensuring that NOAA's workforce is prepared to meet current and future organizational needs and challenges. The course covers all OPM leadership competencies: leading change, leading people, business acumen, building coalitions, and being results-driven; as well as the fundamental competencies of oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, integrity and honesty, continued learning, and public service. Congratulations, Meredith and Jeff!

GOMO News

Read more GOMO News. Share your news by contacting our Communications Specialist, Jessica.Mkitarian@noaa.gov or by submitting through our News Form.

News Around NOAA

• NOAA leaders, experts and climate science take the world stage at COP28 UN Climate Summit
• NOAA Administrator Spinrad on COP28: Despite the climate crisis, ‘there is hope’
• One year after the eruption, Mauna Loa Observatory has resumed key science activities
• Robots give NOAA a peek under the ice of the Great Lakes
• What are your chances for a white Christmas?

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Recent Publications

DeVries, T., Yamamoto, K., Wanninkhof, R., Gruber, N., Hauck, J., Müller, J. D., et al. (2023). Magnitude, trends, and variability of the global ocean carbon sink from 1985 to 2018. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2023GB007780. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007780

Fassbender, A. J., Carter, B. R., Sharp, J. D., Huang, Y., Arroyo, M. C., & Frenzel, H. (2023). Amplified subsurface signals of ocean acidification. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2023GB007843. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007843.

Feely, R.A., L.-Q. Jiang, R. Wanninkhof, B.R. Carter, S.R. Alin, N. Bednaršek, and C.E. Cosca. 2023. Acidification of the global surface ocean: What we have learned from observations. Oceanography,  https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.222.

Gutierrez-Villanueva, M.O., Chereskin, T.K. & Sprintall, J. Compensating transport trends in the Drake Passage frontal regions yield no acceleration in net transport. Nature Communications 14, 7792 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43499-2

Johnson, G. C., and B. A. King (2023), Zapiola Gyre, Velocities and Mixing, New Argo Insights, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(6), e2023JC019893, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019893

Lyman, J. M., and G. C. Johnson (2023), Global High-Resolution Random Forest Regression Maps of Ocean Heat Content Anomalies Using In Situ and Satellite Data, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 40(5), 575-586, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0058.1

Müller, J. D., Gruber, N., Carter, B., Feely, R., Ishii, M., Lange, N., et al. (2023). Decadal trends in the oceanic storage of anthropogenic carbon from 1994 to 2014. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000875. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000875

Pierre Friedlingstein et al. Global Carbon Budget 2023, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 5301–5369, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5301-2023, 2023.

Sharp, J. D., Fassbender, A. J., Carter, B. R., Johnson, G. C., Schultz, C., and Dunne, J. P.: GOBAI-O2: temporally and spatially resolved fields of ocean interior dissolved oxygen over nearly 2 decades, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 4481–4518, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4481-2023, 2023.

Zilberman, N. V., M. Scanderbeg, A. R. Gray, and P. R. Oke (2023), Scripps Argo Trajectory-Based Velocity Product: Global Estimates of Absolute Velocity Derived from Core, Biogeochemical, and Deep Argo Float Trajectories at Parking Depth, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 40(3), 361-374, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0065.1

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