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OceanWiki is an encyclopedia of marine biogeochemistry, and comprises descriptions of types of experimental data collected, types of computational models, and model strain isolates.
Primary Production
Photoautotrophy | Nitrogen Fixation | Phytoplankton C/N-Based Growth Rates | Chemoautotrophy
Secondary Production
Enzyme Activity | Growth Rate | Respiration
Nutrient Fluxes
Nitrogen | Phosphorus | Sulfur | Trace Metals | Biomineralization
Interactions
Grazing | Mixotrophy | Viruses | Allelopathy | Life cycles
Flux Balance Analysis | Proteome Allocation Models | Particle Simulation | Bio Particle Simulation | Macromolecular Model
Community Flux Balance Analysis | GENOME
CMIP | MARBL | Darwin | AWESOME-OCIM | PISCES
A dictionary with definitions from both experimentalists, observationalists, and modelers.
Teaching material
This was a suggestion from the BioGeoScapes leadership. If you are interested in leading the effort, please get in contact with one of us (see the bottom of How to contribute).
Origin Story & Mission
Marine biogeochemistry needs a shared vocabulary between experimentalists and modelers and shared resources to advance the field. 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. To highlight cross-discipline implications like What data was particularly helpful to inform a model? or How can a model help constrain experimental parameters?, the idea arose to create a Wiki that provided a central repository for basic information related to interdisciplinary biogeochemistry science. This emerged as a way to address needs that have arisen in conversations specifically:
- defining key terms used across disciplines
- explain types of data generated by different methods, assumptions, and potential biases
- describe different types of models, required data inputs, computational demand, and limitations