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Origin story - where it started

This community-driven collection of biogeochemical output began at the BioGeoScapes modelling workshop and the following PRiMO session at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in September 2025. It builds on their knowledge and experience to advance the field.

Mission

Marine biogeochemistry needs a shared vocabulary between experimentalists and modelers for cross-disciplinary work to advance the field. Written output can highlight cross-discipline implications:

• What data was particularly helpful to inform a model?
  
• How can an experimentalist capitalize on a model to constrain parameter spaces?
  

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).

Content

The Oceancyclopedia is an encyclopedia to bridge disciplines of marine biogeochemistry, and consists of three 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 context and credit.

Teaching material

This was a suggestion from the BioGeoScapes leadership and we are working on incorporating it.