1	Southern Ocean GLOBEC Update on 2002 Program Activities
2	2002 U.S. SO GLOBEC Activities Mooring recovery/deployment cruise in March 2002 Process and survey cruises in April-May 2002 Process and survey cruises in August-September 2002
3	Program Office Activities Cruise reports for the 2002 mooring cruise, April-May process and survey cruises, and August-September 2002 process cruise have been published and distributed Report for August-September survey cruise will be available by the end of the year Article describing SO GLOBEC published in Oceanography – reprints are available and article can be obtained from SO GLOBEC web site SO GLOBEC contribution to an IGBP Science Series Publication on GLOBEC – published in early 2003
4	Program Office Activities (Cont.) Successful SO GLOBEC sessions at Ocean Sciences Meeting – February 2002 SO GLOBEC SSC met 9-10 July – minutes available on SO GLOBEC web site Poster describing 2002 field activities developed and presented at GLOBEC OSM in China in October 2002 – copies available Good representation of SO GLOBEC at OSM
5	First SO GLOBEC DSR Issue Co-editors of volume are Hofmann, Wiebe, Costa and Torres Publication is set for late 2003 or early 2004 10 manuscripts received and 8-10 more expected – titles and abstracts on web site Submissions from international SO GLOBEC community
6	SO GLOBEC-Related Meetings Zooplankton Production Meeting, 20-23 May in Gijon, Spain – many SO GLOBEC related papers 2003 IUGG General Assembly, 30 June-11 July in Sapporo, Japan includes a special session on Southern Ocean research Abstract deadline is 30 January 2003 Special session on SO GLOBEC at 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January in Portland, OR
7	SO GLOBEC Cruises UK SO GLOBEC cruise in December 2002 and January 2003 UK Scotia Sea Frontal Cruise in January-February 2003 UK mooring deployments around South Georgia in April-May 2003 German SO GLOBEC second phase is Lazarev Sea program in 2003-2005 which will focus on winter processes
8	Future SO Studies Early January 2003 the IGBP-SCOR OCEANS program will hold an Open Science Meeting in Paris Poster describing a new Southern Ocean initiative will be presented Initiative is circumpolar, international, climate related, focus is on food web and feedbacks to biogeochemical cycles
9	Future SO Studies If accepted then there will be a series of international and national workshops to define the science questions and research plans for the program Target date is 2007 to 2008