- https://www.nat-esm.de/services/workshops-and-trainings/events/focus-workshop-ocean-biogeochemistry
- 🌐 Focus Workshop on Ocean Biogeochemistry
- 2025-09-24T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-09-24T23:59:59+02:00
- This focus workshop will bring together key actors from the ocean biogeochemistry community and representatives from other natESM components to jointly discuss the current modeling landscape, integration needs, and opportunities for collaboration.
Sep 24, 2025
(Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Seminar room #034, DKRZ, Bundesstraße 45a , 20146 Hamburg
This focus workshop is being organized primarily by and for the ocean biogeochemistry (OBGC) community within natESM, with the aim of taking stock of the current modeling landscape, exploring integration challenges, and strengthening interfaces with other natESM components. As such, input from colleagues working on other core components is very welcome, especially regarding points of coupling and technical compatibility.
The workshop will take place in person in Hamburg on September 24, 2025, 10:00 - 16:00.
Registration is closed.
Preliminary agenda: natESM Focus Workshop on Ocean Biogeochemistry
Welcome and Introduction
- 10:00 - Jochem Marotzke (MPI-M, natESM Co-Chair): Welcome and short input on natESM and purpose of focus workshops
Community presentations – Ocean Biogeochemistry Modeling (17+3 min each)
- 10:15 - Judith Hauck and Chris Danek (AWI): Overview of recent and planned developments of REcoM, modeling and observational links
- 10:35 - Tatiana Ilyina (UHH/MPI-M): Ocean Biogeochemistry in the ICON Framework: Challenges and Opportunities
- 10:55 - Kai Logemann (Hereon): ECOSMO and ECOSMO_E2E: Perspectives and integration challenges
11:15 - Short coffee break
Community Presentations – continued (17+3 min each)
- 11:30 - Andreas Oschlies (GEOMAR): OPEM: Optimality-based non-Redfield Plankton-Ecosystem Model, overview and recent developments
- 11:50 - Nicolas Gruber (ETH Zürich): Why we need more "bio" in high-resolution biogeochemistry modeling
- 12:10 - Thomas Frölicher (University of Bern): tbd
12:30 – Lunch break and informal exchange
13:30 – 15:30 - Open discussion: Key integration challenges
- 13:30 - Short input presentation by RSE Wilton Jaciel Loch (DKRZ) – Overview of technical integration pathways and interface requirements in natESM
- 13:45 - Moderated discussion (Chair: Jochem Marotzke)
- Agreeing on strategies for integration (e.g., potential for consensus on ocean/biogeochemical requirements and approaches)
- Ensuring compatibility and synergies with other natESM components
- Strategies for a coherent modeling approach across the community
15:30 – Next steps and action items
- Summary of key points
- Identification of working groups and follow-up actions