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Marine biogeochemistry is lacking a shared vocabulary between experimentalists and modelers, despite cross-disciplinary work having become key to advancing the field. Written output can highlight cross-discipline implications: What data was particularly helpful?; What methods were appreciated?; and How can other groups progress the work?; E.g., how an experimentalist may capitalize on a model. Yet, to integrate disciplines successfully, researchers need to be vocal about discrepancy and uncertainty, and realize caveats of how values are determined (via any of the three categories of work). Ocepedia is set up as an encyclopedia to bride disciplines of marine biogeochemistry, and consists of three main components:

Lexicon

A dictionary with definitions from both experimentalists, observationalists, and modelers.
(Include math, figures, etc. as needed)

Data wiki

Types of data from experimental observations explained including how they are obtained. Methods are grouped by the process they investigate.

• Photoautotrophy
• Nitrogen fixation

Model wiki

Types of models explained grouped by the scales they function at.

• Cellular scale
• Biome scale
• Global scale
  

These pages contain definitions, limitations, context, and references.
They are populated by researchers, naming responsible authors for accountability and credit.

Webseries?

Videos to compliment the dictionary
5 - 20 minute discussion on a topic by a BGS expert
Ideally, someone to coordinate this