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Past SCOR Working Groups

Group

Title of Working Group

WG 1Radioactivity in the Ocean
WG 2Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean
WG 3Measurements of the Productivity of the Sea and of the Standing Crops of Phytoplankton and Zooplankton (renamed Biological Production of the Sea)
WG 4Physical Properties of Sea Water
WG 5International Indian Ocean Expedition
WG 6Chemical Oceanography
WG 7World Data Centres
WG 8Radio-aids to Navigation
WG 9Fisheries Oceanography
WG 10Oceanographic Tables and Standards (joint with ICES, IAPO, UNESCO; reconstituted as the Joint Panel on Oceanographic Tables and Standards [JPOTS])
WG 11Atlases
WG 12Abstracts and Bibliographies
WG 13Zooplankton Sampling Methods (joint with ICES and UNESCO)
WG 14General Scientific Framework
WG 15Photosynthetic Radiant Energy (joint with UNESCO and IAPO)
WG 16General Problems of Intercalibration and Standardization
WG 17Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments (joint with UNESCO)
WG 18Biological Data (joint with ACMRR)
WG 19Micropalaeontology of Bottom Sediments (approved in 1965)
WG 20Radiocarbon Estimation of Primary Production (approved in 1965; joint with ICES and UNESCO)
WG 21 Continuous Current Velocity Measurements
WG 22 Marine Pollution
WG 23 Zooplankton Laboratory Methods
WG 24Estimation of Primary Production under Special Conditions
WG 25 Nutrient Chemistry
WG 26 Implementation of UN Resolution on Resources of the Sea
WG 27 Tides of the Open Sea
WG 28 Air-Sea Interaction
WG 29 Monitoring in Biological Oceanography
WG 30Scientific Aspects of International Ocean Research
WG 31 East Atlantic Continental Margins
WG 32 Biological Data Inventories
WG 33 Phytoplankton Methods
WG 34 Internal Dynamics of the Ocean
WG 35 Methods of Quantitative Ecology of Coral Reefs
WG 36Coastal Upwelling Processes
WG 37 Marine Plankton and Sediments
WG 38 Ocean Processes in the Antarctic
WG 39 Scientific Investigation of Pollution in the Marine Environment
WG 40 Palaeo-Oceanography
WG 41 Morphological Mapping of the Ocean Floor
WG 42Pollution of the Baltic
WG 43 Oceanography Related to GATE
WG 44 Ocean-Atmosphere Materials Exchange
WG 45 Marine Pollution Research
WG 46 River Inputs to Ocean Systems
WG 47 Oceanographic Programmes During FGGE
WG 48The Influence of the Ocean on Climate
WG 49 Mathematical Modelling of Oceanic Processes
WG 50 Biological Effects of Ocean Variability
WG 51 Evaluation of CTD Data
WG 52 Estimation of Micro-Nekton Abundance
WG 53 Evolution of the South Atlantic
WG 54Southern Ocean Ecosystems and their Living Resources
WG 55 Prediction of El Niņo
WG 56 Equatorial Upwelling Processes
WG 57 Coastal and Estuarine Regimes
WG 58 Arctic Ocean Heat Budget
WG 59 Mathematical Models in Biological Oceanography
WG 60Mangrove Ecosystems
WG 61 Sedimentation Processes at Continental Margins
WG 62 Carbon Budget of the Ocean
WG 63 Marine Geochronological Methods
WG 64 Oceanic Atoll Drilling
WG 65 Coastal Off-Shore Ecosystems Relationships
WG 66 Oceanographic Applications of Drifting Buoys
WG 67 Oceanography, Marine Ecology and Living Resources
WG 68 North Atlantic Circulation
WG 69 Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean
WG 70 Remote Measurement of the Oceans from Satellites
WG 71 Particulate Biogeochemical Processes
WG 72 The Ocean as a Source and Sink for Atmospheric Constituents (formerly WG 44)
WG 73 Ecological Theory in Relation to Biological Oceanography (formerly WG 59)
WG 74 General Circulation of the Southern Ocean
WG 75 Methodology for Oceanic CO2 Measurements
WG 76 Ecology of the Deep Sea Floor
WG 77 Laboratory Tests Related to Basic Physical Measurements at Sea
WG 78 Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments in Seawater
WG 79 Variations in Carbon Dioxide and the Carbon Cycle
WG 80 Role of Phase Transfer Processes in the Cycling of Trace Metals in Estuaries
WG 81 Deep Water Palaeoceanography
WG 82 Polar Deep Sea Palaeoenvironments
WG 83 Wave Modelling
WG 84 Hydrothermal Emanations at Plate Boundaries
WG 85 Experimental Ecosystems
WG 86 Ecology of Sea Ice
WG 87 Fine-scale Distribution of Gelatinous Planktonic Animals
WG 88 Intercalibration of Drifting Buoys (formerly WG 66)
WG 89 Sea Level and Erosion of the World's Coastlines
WG 90 Chemical and Biological Oceanographic Sensor Technology
WG 91 Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life in Marine Hydrothermal Systems
WG 92 Ocean/Atmosphere Palaeochemistry
WG 93 Pelagic Biogeography
WG 94 Altimeter Data and In-situ Current Observations
WG 95 Sediment Suspension and Sea Bed Properties
WG 96 Acoustic Monitoring of the World Ocean
WG 97 Physiological Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms
WG 98 Worldwide Large-scale Fluctuations of Sardine and Anchovy Populations
WG 99 Linked Mass and Energy Fluxes at Ridge Crests
WG 100 Sediment Coring for International Global Change Research
WG 101 Influence of Sea State on the Atmospheric Drag Coefficient
WG 102 Comparative Salinity and Density of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins
WG 103 The Role of Wave Breaking on Upper Ocean Dynamics
WG 104 Coral Reef Responses To Global Change: The Role of Adaptation
WG 105 The Impact of World Fisheries on the Stability and Biodiversity of Marine Ecosystems
WG 106 Relative Sea Level and Muddy Coasts of the World
WG 107 Improved Global Bathymetry
WG 108 Double Diffusion
WG 109 Biogeochemistry of Iron in Seawater
WG 110 Intercomparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Fields

WG 112

Magnitude of Submarine Groundwater Discharge and its Influence on Coastal Oceanographic Processes

WG 113 Evolution of the Asian Monsoon in Marine Records: Comparison Between Indian and East Indian Subsystems
WG 114 Transport and Reaction in Permeable Marine Sediments
WG 117 Synthesis of Decadal to Millenial Climate Records on the Last 80ky

WG 118

New Technologies for Observing Marine Life


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