Many of our EuroGO-SHIP colleagues have been involved in the GLODAP project for a few seasons now, and were in Brussels early this year to work on the delivery of GLODAPv3 2025. The week-long workshop culminated in an insightful event, led by Siv Lauvset (NORCE), with stakeholders from international and intergovernmental organisations, initiatives and projects. The programme highlighted the urgent demand to better understand the dynamics of carbon flux and to increase the capacity of ocean observation, particularly in the deep sea—the true ocean carbon sink.
Key issues relating to EuroGO-SHIP aims were discussed, including the importance of securing on-going production and access to reference materials for inorganic carbon data, crucial steps in quantifying the ocean carbon sink, connecting the surface to the deep with respect to future estimates to ensure there is no disconnection, and encouraging recruitment and development of talent through long-term contracts, knowledge transfer and training to ensure the delivery of quality data in the future.
The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis activity for ocean surface to bottom biogeochemical data collected through chemical analysis of water samples. Visit their website for more info and check out the paper: A vision for FAIR ocean data products published in Nature.
