Our third full Working Group meeting was held on Sunday 11 February, immediately preceding the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting. Items for discussion included our survey of community needs for chemical speciation modelling programs, and progress in our funded project and the related experiments now being planned or carried out in several countries. The report on the Working Group meeting is now available here.

A further meeting was held on the 12th February, for the sub-group of Working Group members carrying out experiments, plus other scientists carrying out related work (Regina Easley and Jason Waters of NIST, Wei-Jun Cai of the University of Delaware, and Robert Byrne of the University of South Florida). We discussed the progress of these experiments, future plans, and links to projects outside of the Working Group. The summary of these discussions has been circulated to Working Group members.

We prepared a two page summary of WG 145 current activities and objectives which was available at the exhibit booths of both SCOR and NSF’s Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry programme. You are welcome to download it from the link above.