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SCOR Annual Meetings
Registration is open for the 2025 SCOR Annual Meeting! The meeting will be held 29-31 October in Santa Marta, Colombia with remote attendance available. A symposium will be held on 28 October to connect the SCOR community with Colombian early-career scientists (details to be distributed soon).
The SCOR Annual Meetings includes updates from SCOR activities from the past year, and allows national committees to oversee the work of SCOR, to approve new working groups, and discuss the SCOR budget for the coming year. This year, many SCOR-sponsored projects will be reflecting on past accomplishments and making plans for the future.
2026 Annual Meeting: Helsinki, Finland
2027 Annual Meeting: Valparaíso, Chile
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Upcoming Deadline! 2025 African Ocean Research Discovery Camp
Interested in a research-driven learning experience focused on the biogeochemical oceanography of upwelling systems?
We are pleased to announce that the next Regional Graduate Network in Oceanography (RGNO), a SCOR-supported cooperative research and capacity building initiative, will take place from 29 September to 17 October 2025 at the University of Namibia's Sam Nujoma Marine Research Center in Henties Bay and Namibia's National Marine Information and Research Center in Swakopmund, Namibia.
Applications are due 25 July (act soon!). Financial support is available!
More information and apply here (click "Guest Access")
| | Click image to expand for details | | Congratulations to the 2025 POGO-SCOR Fellows! | | |
The POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme is designed to provide training and hands-on experience in ocean observations, as well as in the analysis and presentation of data derived from these observations. It offers recipients the opportunity to visit leading oceanographic institutions abroad for a short period (1 to 3 months) to gain hands-on experience in oceanographic data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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Mr Abhijith Raj (Project Scientist and PhD student, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, India) will be hosted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (United States)
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Ms Mayukhmita Ghose (PhD student, National Institute of Oceanography, India) will be hosted by the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
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Mr Matheus Batista (PhD student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil) will be hosted by Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências (Portugal).
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Dr Marzieh Biglari (Post-doc fellow, Ayatollah Boroujerdi University, Iran) will be hosted by the University of East London (UK)
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Mr Kehinde Olorunfemi (PhD student, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria) will be hosted by Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)
| | News from the Working Groups and Projects | | |
Membership Opportunities
Call for two new members of the IOCCP Scientific Steering Group
IOCCP is looking for two new members to join its Scientific Steering Group (SSG) for terms beginning on 1 October 2025, to act as leaders responsible for Coordination of Optimal Global Design for Ocean Carbon Observations (Position #1) and Coordination of Regional Ocean Biogeochemical Observations in Latin America (Position #2). Application Deadline 1 August 2025!
New SSG members will be expected to develop and expand a comprehensive and effective set of coordination activities within specific IOCCP Themes, as linked to each Position description below. Moreover, IOCCP seeks to expand the SSG composition to: (i) better address the needs for coordination in regions currently underrepresented at the IOCCP SSG, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, and (ii) promote outstanding early-career ocean professionals willing to support IOCCP’s mission.
Read the full announcement.
ECR Opportunity: SOOS Southern Ocean Air-Sea Flux Capability Working Group (SOFLUX CWG)
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and SOOS are seeking an early career researcher (within 5 years of PhD) to join the SOOS Southern Ocean Air-Sea Flux Capability Working Group (SOFLUX CWG) for a two-year term (2025–2027). This is a great opportunity to get involved in international efforts to improve understanding of air-sea fluxes in the Southern Ocean, including heat, freshwater, momentum, and gases. The role involves helping to coordinate webinars and newsletters, supporting community communication, and contributing to planning discussions.
More information here
SOOS Swedish Network: Leadership Opportunities
The SOOS Swedish Network is looking for motivated individuals to join its leadership group as well as other leadership opportunities within SOOS and help steer the direction of this growing community. Formed through a partnership between the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), this network connects researchers, policymakers, and industry members with a shared interest in the Southern Ocean. They are seeking people from all disciplines and career stages, including but not limited to those working in the Arctic with an Antarctic interest, or other professionals with very strong interest in the Southern Ocean, to help guide activities, promote collaboration, and strengthen Sweden’s impact in global Southern Ocean initiatives. Deadline 15 August 2025.
More information here
New IMBeR Working Group: SGD-WG to Reveal the Ocean’s Hidden Hydrological Veins
IMBeR is pleased to announce the launch of a new endorsed working group: the Submarine Groundwater Discharge Working Group. This international network of 33 scientists from 9 countries is dedicated to investigating one of the ocean’s most critical and overlooked processes—Submarine Groundwater Discharge—and its cascading impacts on global biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem function, and climate resilience.
Read the full announcement
Training Opportunities
Saroma Sea Ice School 2026
WG 163 CICe2Clouds, CATCH, and BEPSII are organizing an interdisciplinary winter field school (28 Feb-9 March 2026) for early-career scientists focused on the interactions among sea ice, snow, clouds, and aerosols in polar regions. Through a combination of classroom lectures, expert-led workshops, and hands-on fieldwork (including sea ice coring and atmospheric sampling), participants will explore the key processes that shape the Arctic and Antarctic climate systems. Applications due 30 September.
Find more information here.
Multiple Drivers/Stressors Training Course Registration
COBS will be delivering two free training courses for participants in the BECoME-2025 conference in Hong Kong:
Course 1: Designing Multiple-Driver Experiments, 18 August 2025
Course 2: Data Analysis for Multiple-Driver Experiments, 22 August 2025
Register on the conference website.
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Working Group Products
BGC-Argo Data Products Webpage
WG 168 4D-BGC has collaborated with Biogeochemical Argo to host a new web page dedicated to BGC data products! This newly released page on the BGC-Argo website currently showcases 9 data products—and will continue to evolve—offering biogeochemical data at both global and regional scales. The parameters covered include oxygen, bio-optics, nutrients and carbon, with a variety of spatial and temporal resolutions to support a broad range of scientific applications. The new web page serves as a catalog of 4D-BGC data products, providing product descriptions, access information, and links to associated peer-reviewed publications. Thomas Jessin is gratefully acknowledged for the integration of these new pages into the BGC-Argo website.
Researchers interested in adding their own 4D-BGC product to the catalog can now follow a dedicated submission process. To be eligible, products must have an operational data link (ideally with a DOI) and a peer-reviewed publication describing the product and its development methodology. With any questions, please contact scor.wg.168@gmail.com.
For Community Review: WG 170 PRIMO Inventory of Oceanographic Physiological Assays
The PRIMO working group is sharing their Inventory of Oceanographic Physiological Assays for community review and feedback. The overarching goal of PRIMO is to develop a community and framework for co-designing novel physiological metrics that may act as ‘currency converters’ to link ‘omics datasets and biogeochemical models of the marine ecosystem. This literature review and database surveys well-established physiological metrics routinely used in biological oceanography, as well as novel metrics being developed to determine physiological rates at both the cellular and community level. It will be used to identify gaps and prioritize processes for novel physiological metric design. The tables include information about the methods (currencies, units, assumptions, uncertainties) that impact their potential readiness to be used in biogeochemical models as well as key references to facilitate discovery.
PRIMO welcomes all community feedback here.
Conferences
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Celebrating 10 years of the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
The International Indian Ocean Science Conference will be held 1-5 December 2025 in Hyderabad, India. The event will be hosted by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India.
Call for Abstracts: The call for abstracts is now open and the details of technical sessions under various themes of are available in the First Announcement of IIOSC-2025. Abstracts are due 4 August 2025.
| | | SCOR-Related Sessions at 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting | | Share your research related to SCOR's scientific activities! Submit abstracts to the following SCOR-related sessions at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting by 20 August 2025. Read the complete news items from GEOTRACES, SOLAS, and SOOS for more details. | | | |
OB020 - Multi-tracer approaches (GEOTRACES)
CB002 - Coastal & Island Mass Effects (GEOTRACES)
AI005 - SOLAS and SOCOM: Understanding Interactions and Feedbacks between the Ocean and Atmosphere
OT008 - Emerging technologies to enhance Southern Ocean and Antarctic observations (SOOS)
OB025 - Respiration in the Mesopelagic Ocean: Reconciling ecological, biogeochemical and model estimates (WG 161 ReMO)
CC014 - Marine Environment Reanalyses and Four-Dimensional Data Driven Models: Progress and Applications (WG 168 4D-BGC)
OB023 - Quantifying and Linking Omics, Physiology & Models in Marine Microbiology (WG 170 PRIMO)
CC021 - Stable Isotopes in the marine environment – applications, modeling and best practices (WG 171 MASIS)
CP007 - Marine and Hydrological Processes Impacting on Estuarine Saltwater Intrusions (WG 172 SALTWATER)
And don't miss the Town Halls!
Town Hall: Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) 3.0: From Science to Solutions
Town Hall: Open Science and Data for Polar Research (SOOS)
Event Report: IMBeR Future Oceans 3
From 13 to 16 May 2025, the IMBeR Synthesis and Future Planning Conference (Future Oceans 3, FO3) was successfully held in Shanghai & Online. The FO3 brought together 306 participants from 129 affiliations across 28 countries and regions. Participants from diverse fields - such as marine science, climate change, and ecological conservation - joined both online and in person. Guided by the theme "Look Inward, Look Outward, Look Forward," this conference aimed to:
- Reflecting on IMBeR’s scientific achievements over the past decade (2016-2025).
- Reviewing IMBeR’s interactions with relevant scientific projects, programs, organizations, and initiatives.
- Envisioning the future of marine biosphere research post-IMBeR.
Read the full conference summary here.
China–Norway Conference 2025: Sustainable Blue Futures
When: 5–6 November 2025 | Format: Digital | Language: English
The SCOR Community may be interested in this conference, shared on behalf of the Norwegian National Committee to SCOR:
The China–Norway Conference 2025 brings together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to explore how we can ensure sustainable ocean management while balancing resource use and environmental protection. The conference will address topics including ocean health, aquaculture, Arctic cooperation, and ocean governance in the High North and the South China Sea.
The event is hosted by the Norwegian Marine University Consortium (NMU) and organized in collaboration with the Chinese Marine University Consortium (CMUC). The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.
Learn more and register here.
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Latest news from the projects at:
SCOR Research projects:
- Marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (GEOTRACES)
- Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR)
- Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Studies (SOLAS)
- International Indian Ocean Expedition II (IIOE-2)
- International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)
SCOR Infrastructural projects:
- International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP)
- Global Harmful Algal Blooms (GlobalHAB)
- Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
- Changing Ocean Biological Systems (COBS)
- Joint Committee on Seawater (JCS)
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COBS: Gao, G., Li, G., Xu, J., Feng, Y., & Hall-Spencer, J. M. (2025). Coastal restoration policy needs to consider seaweed diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(5), 740–742. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02693-9
IMBeR: Gutierrez, D., Calado, H., Toor, F. V., Moreira, M., Paramio, M. L., Martins, F., Santos, N., Melo, N., & Newton, A. (2025). Empowering Maritime Spatial Planning and Marine Conservation Efforts Through Digital Engagement: The Role of Online Platforms. Sustainability, 17(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/su17146371
WG 172 SALTWATER: Li, M., Najjar, R. G., Kaushal, S., Mejia, A., Chant, R. J., Ralston, D. K., Burchard, H., Hadjimichael, A., Lassiter, A., & Wang, X. (2025). The Emerging Global Threat of Salt Contamination of Water Supplies in Tidal Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00505
WG 145 MarChemSpec/JCS: Maksimov, I., Asakai, T., Hibino, Y., & Clegg, S. L. (2025). Activity Coefficients of HCl in Solutions Related to “Tris” Buffers in Artificial Seawater. I. HCl + TrisHCl + H2O from 1.0 to 5.0 mol kg–1 Ionic Strength, and from 5 to 45 °C. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.5c00035
IMBeR: Palacios-Abrantes, J., Dias, B. S., Gianelli, I., Strand, M., Li, S., & Yeboah, G. A. (2025). The Role of the Interdisciplinary Marine Early Career Network (IMECaN) in Supporting Capacity Building, Ocean Literacy, and Collaborative Leadership of Early Career Researchers. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 34(2), 53–55. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10704
WG 162 OASIS: Patterson, R. G., Cronin, M. F., Swart, S., Beja, J., Edholm, J. M., McKenna, J., Palter, J. B., Parker, A., Addey, C. I., Boone, W., Bhuyan, P., Buck, J. J. H., Burger, E. F., Burris, J., Camus, L., de Young, B., du Plessis, M., Flanigan, M., Foltz, G. R., … Zhang, D. (2025). Uncrewed surface vehicles in the Global Ocean Observing System: A new frontier for observing and monitoring at the air-sea interface. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1523585
IMBeR: Zuo, F., Hong, G., Qin, K., & Qian, S. (2025). A Decade of IMBeR: Advocating at a Transition Point. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 34(2), 51–53. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10702
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Karl Banse (USA) was professor emeritus of oceanography at the University of Washington. He served as chair of SCOR WG 33 Phytoplankton Methods and full member of WG 17 Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments. His global field of research ranged from upwelling off India’s coast, polychaete worms of the Northeast Pacific, phytoplankton dynamics of the Northern Arabian Sea, using satellites to discern ocean cycles, the role of zooplankton in consuming phytoplankton and controlling ocean dynamics, the transport of carbon into the deep oceans, and more.
Read the memoriam by University of Washington
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Barry Huebert (USA) was emeritus professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a member of the first SOLAS scientific steering committee (2001-2008). Barry's main research was in the air-sea exchange of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), its role in the sulphur cycle, and its influence on climate through cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation. He was a pioneer in the use of eddy correlation to directly measure air-sea exchanges of carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO) and DMS.
Read the memoriam by Bob Duce and Peter Liss
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Emily Twigg
SCOR Executive Director
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