Award: OCE-0963028

The CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program University of South Florida, College of Marine Science NSF Final Report for Award OCE-0963028 Period Covered: November 2008 – November 2014 Report updated 2 January, 2015 PRODUCTS CARIACO provides an important science platform from which to examine the ecosystem changes that led to important consequences such as the collapse of the sardine fishery off Venezuela in 2005. It also provides context for interpretation of paleoclimatic record, potentially enabling a better prediction of future changes in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the oceans. CARIACO scientific findings were published in peer reviewed articles and disseminated through scientific meetings. Scientific findings were presented at over 25 National and International scientific conferences within the funding period. Presentations were made at the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Workshops, Ocean Sciences Meetings, EGU meetings, IMBER IMBIZO Meetings, the International Workshop of the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network - GOA-ON, Gordon Conference Chemical Geography of the Sea, the 1st Latin America GEOTRACES Workshop, etc. CARIACO organized an International Time-Series Methods Workshop held at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) CARIACO was honored as the 2014 Roger Revelle Memorial Lecture and UNESCO/IOC award. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/ioc-oceans/about-us/governing-bodies/executive-council/47th-session-of-ioc-executive-council/2014-ioc-roger-revelle-memorial-lecture/ CARIACO is currently also part of the International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS; http://www.igmets.net/), an initiative co-sponsored by the IOC-UNESCO and IOCCP. CARIACO is one of the nine global long-term time series that measure DIC, as featured in the annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO; www.wmo.int). (http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit2014/). A total of 58 peer-reviewed articles were published between 2008 and 2014 as a direct result of this support. CARIACO has offered opportunities for training, data collection, and theses to 29 graduate students in the US. In Venezuela, at least 8 undergraduate students at Fundacion La Salle, 3 undergraduates and 1 graduate at Universidad Simon Bolivar, 2 graduate and 6 undergraduates at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and a larger number of undergraduate and graduate students at the Universidad de Oriente have participated in the program. The CARIACO data are easily accessible. They are publicly and openly posted to several Internet servers within periods ranging from weeks to about 6 months depending on the difficulty of processing an observation and after passing quality control. CARIACO data are available through these websites: http://imars.marine.usf.edu/cariaco, http://www.bco-dmo.org/project/2047, http://cariaco.ws/ http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/Moorings/Cariaco.html http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.805397?format=html In addition, data are submitted regularly and on a timely basis to the NOAA NODC and to the NASA SeaBASS systems. Project Web/Internet Site: http://imars.marine.usf.edu/cariaco Last Modified: 01/09/2015 Submitted by: Frank E Muller-Karger