usjgofs.whoi.eduU.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)

The United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study was a national component of international JGOFS and an integral part of global climate change research. Map Legend The U.S. launched the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle. An ambitious goal was set to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean. A new field of ocean biogeochemistry emerged with an emphasis on quality measurements of carbon system parameters and interdisciplinary field studies of the biological, chemical and physical process which control the ocean carbon cycle. As we studied ocean biogeochemistry, we learned that our simple views of carbon uptake and transport were severely limited, and a new "wave" of ocean science was born. U.S. JGOFS has been supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. U.S. JGOFS, ended in 2005 with the conclusion of the Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP). Additional information about U.S. JGOFS History and Mission List of Principal Investigators active in the U.S. JGOFS program Brochure a 14 page brochure summarizing U.S. JGOFS Oceanography special volume 2001 publication highlighting U.S. JGOFS Collection of data and results available from the U.S. JGOFS data system Final Open Science Conference held in May 2003 in Washington, DC Contact the U.S. JGOFS Project Office...