NEWS: * The Pacific DBO data workshop meeting date is November 2-3, 2025 at KOPRI, in the Republic of Korea. Links to past DBO workshop reports are available on the DBO home page and you can also visit the Pacific Arctic Group (PAG) website for past reports. * Our next A-DBO fall meeting will take place 10-11 December 2025 in Tromsø, Norway! We work to boost collaboration within the Atlantic-Arctic domain, across biological, chemical, physical marine observing or modelling efforts. We build the 2-day program around your presentations and interests, so please share such with us as soon as possible (deadline for registration of talks is 31 October). See further details, such as the registration form and meeting agenda at https://arcticpassion.eu/adbo/). * Also, below is the statement from the Pan-Arctic Network of Distributed Biological Observatories (PAN-DBOs) community meeting from ASSW25: A-DBO 2025 Autumn meeting
Past joint DBO sessions at ASSW:
ASSW 2025 - 3rd Community meeting for the pan-Arctic network of DBOs23 March 2025 | Boulder, Colorado, USA (and online)
The four DBO:s organized a joint, full-day DBO community meeting at ASSW2025, for presentations of the 2024 sampling activities and the plans for 2025/26, as well as for discussions about common aims and initiatives ahead. For further info see the meeting description and agenda, while we are compiling our meeting summary. A-DBO 2024 Autumn meeting10-12 December 2024 | Bremen, Germany (and online)
We were inspired of a long list of talks setting the 2024 perspectives for our Arctic sector, see the agenda. We also dedicated time to discuss what A-DBO is and is not, and how it should evolve onward: In what aspects do we wish, and are able, to harmonize our practices to strengthen our scientific outcomes? Both the scientific and organizational aspects conveyed through this meeting will be brought to the pan-Arctic scope, and our community meeting at ASSW2025. ASSW 2024 - 2nd Community meeting for the pan-Arctic network of DBOs21 March 2024 | 10:30 - 18:00 (GMT) | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (and online)
The four current DBO:s organized a joint DBO community meeting at ASSW2024, for presentations of the 2023 sampling activities and the plans for 2024, as well as for discussions about common aims and initiatives ahead. The agenda can be found here, and the meeting summary will appear here soon too! A-DBO 2023 Autumn meeting28-30 November 2023, at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) in Sopot, Poland
The main objective for this annual meeting was to give our members the opportunity to share experiences and outcomes of their 2023 activities and to summarize the observed status for the A-DBO sector. We also looked at the sampling plans for 2024 and discussed how to collectively strengthen our work onward – in terms of results, sampling plans, and common routines. As a tangible output from the meeting, we work on an overview of the 2023 conditions in the Fram Strait. This scope was agreed upon since several the harsh ice conditions north of Svalbard in early summer brought several cruises to this region, leading to a monthly coverage of some parameters between May and September. The overview was first presented at the all-DBO community meeting at ASSW2024 in Edinburgh, UK. ASSW 2023: Towards a pan-Arctic DBODuring two inspiring sessions at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 in Vienna, Austria, the recently initiated Atlantic-Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) community joined up with the teams from the pioneering Pacific Arctic DBO, and the two DBOs in formation for the Davis Strait and the East Siberian Sea. Through discussions and science presentations, the aim was to identify opportunities for jointly improving our observational capacity in the Arctic Ocean, and ways to build a pan-Arctic DBO system out of the regional systems.
The DBO concept is based on an international and collaborative network of standard sampling stations in the different sectors of the Arctic Ocean, with the aim to improve our ability to detect changes in the marine environment and in the associated ecosystem responses. The approach is interdisciplinary and serves to better utilize the observational expertise and already ongoing efforts through strengthened connections between existing observational timeseries, increased opportunistic sampling, and increased cooperation on sampling and equipment in dedicated DBO locations. It is one of the contributions of Arctic PASSION to much needed improvement of international coordination and cooperation in Arctic observing system elements..
As leveraging mechanisms towards better connectivity between the networks we discussed the ideas of regular, all-DBO science symposia and a joint pan-Arctic DBO special issue for scientific publications. To begin with, we agreed to establish a common, all-DBO webpage making it more feasible to reach first-level information about any of the observatories (to be launched soon). We also agreed on repeating the success of our joint DBO days at the ASSW 2024 and the planning of these upcoming events will start shortly.
Follow the progress of the Atlantic-Arctic DBO within Arctic PASSION.
31 October - 1 November 2022 in Bergen, Norway
The first A-DBO dedicated autumn meeting was held with focus on defining the fundamental spatio-temporal characteristics of the A-DBO and the associated core parameters to sample. We also took the opportunity to share news about our recent sampling activities and about our planned cruise activities.
ASSW2022 Session on Establishing the Distributed Biological Observatory system in the Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean27 March 2022 in Tromsø, Norway
The first A-DBO dedicated autumn meeting was held with focus on defining the fundamental spatio-temporal characteristics of the A-DBO and the associated core parameters to sample. We also took the opportunity to share news about our recent sampling activities and about our planned cruise activities.
