The March 2024 SOLAS newsletter can be found here.
News
Open Call for Applications to the SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee
closing date: 25 April 2024
SOLAS welcomes nominations to its international Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for a term starting on 1st January 2025. The SSC functions as the central decision-making body for SOLAS and sets the scientific direction and priorities with support from the SOLAS International Project Office (IPO). It reflects the broad diversity of the SOLAS community in terms of scientific expertise, geography, career stage, and gender.
We are planning to appoint two new members this year, and applications from the Global South are highly encouraged. We welcome (self-) nominations of scientists from all SOLAS-relevant disciplines (see the SOLAS 2015-2025 Science Plan and Organisation), particularly in the following areas: i) Extreme events in the SOLAS domain (e.g. storms and cyclones, dust storms, fires, marine heat waves, extreme sea ice loss, hypoxia and acidic events, and harmful algal blooms), ii) Climate Intervention (e.g. Solar Radiation Management). Please find the minimum qualifications required and instructions on how to apply or to nominate via the link: http://bit.ly/3TRqap3.
Nominations will be accepted until 25 April 2024.
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
Call for Applications to the SOLAS Early Career Scientist Committee
closing date: 30th April 2024
Early Career Scientists (ECS) comprise a significant portion of the SOLAS community. The SOLAS Early Career Scientist Committee (ECSC) is opening a call for new members. The committee’s objectives are to represent this critical group’s unique insights and opinions at all SOLAS levels and to provide future-generation scientists with networking and collaboration opportunities.
The SOLAS ECSC welcomes applications from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members who have received their latest degree within 10 years, with an extension allowance for caregiving leave. The committee members are appointed for a 3-year term or until they can no longer be defined as an ECS. Candidates from developing countries and island states, particularly from Indian Ocean-rim countries, are explicitly encouraged to apply. In SOLAS, we seek to build a diverse and unbiased academic culture. This is why we encourage ECS from underrepresented groups in Atmospheric and Ocean sciences (including law and policy aspects) to apply as new members. Expertises from all themes of SOLAS science are encouraged, particularly expertise in polar and coastal science, ocean-based geoengineering (mCDR), marine social science including law and policy, blue economy, and data science (AI and ML).
The call for (self-)nominations is now open until 30th April. Please send a short bio of your expertise and profile and how you think this can contribute to SOLAS (300 words) and your CV to Joan Llort (committee chair, joan.llort@bsc.es) and Li Li (SOLAS IPO, lili34@xmu.edu.cn).
We look forward to engaging our future committee members!
More information on the current SOLAS ECSC can be found here.
Call for Papers: SOOS Symposium Special Issue
Submissions welcome by 31 August
Hosted by ‘Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene’ Click here for more…
Understanding the Trajectory and Implication of a Changing Southern Ocean: The Need for an Integrated Observing System
The Southern Ocean is a critical component of the global climate system. It controls, to a large extent, the uptake of human-generated heat and carbon into the ocean. We are currently observing critical changes in the Southern Ocean that are seen in the record low levels of sea-ice extent, high temperatures, and dramatic shifts in penguin populations, among other striking changes.
Understanding the processes that underlie those changes and potential trajectories moving forward is constrained by the sparsely available observations for this remote and extreme location. It is evident that expanding Southern Ocean observations will require a sustained commitment from the global scientific community, governments, and international organizations. These efforts are essential for addressing the challenges posed by climate change and advancing our knowledge of this critical region.
This special issue will showcase the latest findings on the current state of the interdisciplinary observing system, the importance of sustained observational capability, data access, and data delivery for detecting and monitoring system changes in the Southern Ocean.
These activities are core to the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) whose mission is to facilitate the delivery of a sustained and coordinated Southern Ocean observing system to provide diagnostics and understanding of current conditions, inform predictions of future states, and support policies and regulations for the benefit of society.
IMBeR eNews 7 March 2024
The latest edition of IMBeR eNews is available here.
IIOE-2 Newsletter, Volume-8, Issue-2, February, 2024
The February 2024 edition of the IIOE-2 newsletter can be found here.
IMBIZO7 Deadline Extended
- Science based adaptive management and policy responses to the causes and consequences of eutrophication.
- A framework for development of social-ecological models of transformative change for sustainable ocean management.
- Governance transformations for resilient fisheries and aquaculture: Progressions, challenges and opportunities.
SOLAS Open Science Conference 2024
10-14 November 2024
Hosted by CSIR – National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Registration and submissions are open!!
Submit your abstract or discussion session proposal, or send an application for travel support by 19 April 2024! Register for the early rate by 10 July 2024!
• Submit an abstract (talk or poster) here
Participants may submit a poster abstract and express their wish to be considered to give a talk (15 min + 5 min for questions) in one of the plenary sessions.
• Submit a discussion session proposal here
You have the opportunity to host a discussion session on a topic of interest and discuss future direction, research collaborations and much more.
• Send an application for travel support here
Limited financial support for early career scientists from developing countries is available and applications are now accepted.
For more details about the conference, please visit the conference website: https://solas-osc-
We look forward to receiving your submissions and celebrating 20 years of SOLAS with you in November!!
IMBeR eNews 21 February 2024
The latest edition of IMBeR eNews can be found here.
Working Groups and Projects at OSM 2024
Meet SCOR at booth #607 at the Ocean Science Meeting (OSM) in New Orleans, USA (18-23 February 2024)! Executive Director Emily Twigg and representatives from SCOR working groups and projects will be present. Interested in a specific activity? View the booth schedule here.
WG 145 MarChemSpec
- Posters on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) (CM24A-1140) and trace metal complexation (OB34C-0880).
- Test drive new software at the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) booth (#512)
WG 148 IQuOD
- Oral Presentation CC41A-03 Quantification of uncertainties in global ocean temperature observations: the International Quality-controlled Ocean Database (IQuOD) product
WG 157 MetaZooGene
- Oral Presentation OT41A-01 Reference Sequences for DNA-based Analysis of Global Marine Diversity: MetaZooGene Database and Atlas
WG 161 ReMO
WG 162 OASIS
- Community Workshop: This 2-day workshop (17-18 February) will bring the OASIS community together for its first face-to-face meeting to review current activities and projects, frame the main objectives of OASIS, discuss the four Grand Ideas, highlight emerging areas, and define what is needed as a community to reach these objectives. Register and learn more here.
WG 168 4D-BGC
- Visit members at the SCOR booth.
WG 169 GLUBS
- Visit members at the SCOR booth.
GEOTRACES (View complete information here)
- Visit members at the SCOR booth, including for assistance registering datasets for inclusion in the next Intermediate Data Product.
- Oral Session CT12A – Geochemical Tracers of Ocean Processes
- Oral Session OB42A – Biogeochemical Cycling in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Beyond
- Oral Session OB41C – Speciation and Bioavailability of Trace Metals in the Marine Environment
- Oral Session HE53A – Heading South: Contrasting Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Elements and Isotopes from Tropical to Southern Ocean Waters
- Oral Session OB53B – Observation-Based Data Products of Ocean Biogeochemistry and the Importance of Standardized Measurement and Uncertainty Estimation Protocols in Marine Science
- Oral Session OB11C – Time Series Observations of Ocean Biogeochemistry: What We Have Learned and What We Will Learn
- Poster Session OB14D – The Influence of Boundary Currents on Exchange Processes Between Continental Margins and the Open Ocean and Biogeochemical Consequences Poster
- Town Hall TH13F – Margin/Basin Biogeochemical Dynamics: Priorities and Future Directions
IIOE-2 Early Career Scientist Network
IMBeR
SOLAS
- Visit members at the SCOR booth.
- The OCB Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee and SOLAS would like to invite everyone to the Courtyard Brewery, a location near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with food and drinks, on Wednesday, Feb. 21 starting at 6:30 PM.
- The Biogeochemistry of Air-Sea Exchange Processes
- Poster Session AI44B
- Oral Session AI51A
- Oral Presentation AI51A-06 Seasonal Variability in Concentrations of Free and Combined Amino Acids in Seawater and Associated with Nascent Primary Marine Aerosol at the BATS Station
- Physical and Biogeochemical Variability and Changes in the World’s Upwelling Systems: Present and Future
- Oral Session I PI13A
- Oral Session II PI21A
- Poster Session PI24A
- Oral Presentation OB53B-07 High-resolution neural network demonstrates strong CO2 source sink juxtaposition in the coastal zone
- Community Meeting and Workshop – Benefits vs Risks of Ocean Plastic Pollution Cleanups
- Ecological and Biogeochemical Impacts of Plastic Pollution in the Marine Environment
- Poster Session CE44B
- Oral Session CE51A
- Poster HE44E-2740 Southern Ocean deep convection – a wild card in emission reduction scenarios?
- Poster CE44C-0472 Marine Microplastics: Modelling Different Phase-out Scenarios and Understanding their Potential Implications for Marine Contamination
- Poster OB24B-0764 Southern Ocean biogeochemistry and primary production during the Last Interglacial
- Poster OB24B-0762 Southern Ocean deep convection events increase meridional temperature gradients in warm climates
- Oral Presentation OB31A-09 Nitrogen Cycling in the Agulhas Current II: Agulhas Current Dynamics Drive (Sub)Mesoscale Nitrate Fluxes That Fuel New Production
- Poster OB34D-0898 Nitrogen cycling in the Agulhas Current I: Local and remote signals of Indian Ocean processes
- The Indian Ocean: Mean State, Natural Variability, and Climate Change
- Online Session OP31C
- Poster Session CC34C
- Poster AI44B-2456 Photochemical Degradation Decreases the Concentration of Surfactants in the North Atlantic Seawater and the Associated Sea Surface Microlayer
- Poster OB14C-0716 Measuring marine dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) photoproduction from space
- Poster OB44E-1001 Expanding the Application of Remote Sensing-based Marine Photochemical Models to Novel Biogeochemical Estimates
- Poster AI14B-2315 A Holistic Approach to Ocean Observations for Process Understanding: Bubble mediated exchange in the Labrador Sea (BELS)
SOOS (View complete information here)
- Visit members at the SCOR booth.
- Side meeting of the Southern Ocean Fluxes Capability Working Group Southern Ocean Fluxes (SOFLUX): Shaping the future together, 22 February. Registration is closed.
- Side Meeting of the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group. Date and place to be announced soon
- Session by SOFLUX CWG AI14A – Advances in understanding of air-sea fluxes & interaction in the Southern Ocean
- Session Polar Technology Task Team HE14B – Autonomous Sensing and Monitoring in Polar Environments
- Session by SOOS-endorsed project, International Nutrient Inter-comparison Voyage, OT34C – Breaking Barriers: Bridging the Gap in Methodologies and Data Reporting for Ocean Biogeochemistry
- Poster CC44E-1398 Southern Ocean Observing System for sustained and coordinated observations in a changing world