As 2025 approaches its end, SCOR is looking forward to growing and implementing new ideas in 2026 arising from the 2025 annual meeting. This year's annual meeting was held 29-31 October in Santa Marta, Colombia at INVEMAR, Colombia's Marine and Coastal Research Institute. Highlights from the recent meeting include:

• Interactions between Colombian early-career scientists (ECS) and the SCOR community.
• An introduction to INVEMAR's scientific capabilities by the Director of Scientific Coordination, Jesús Garay, and a tour of the innovative observational equipment, specimen museum, and water quality labs.
• Ideas for improving engagement with ECS, including review of results from SCOR's ECS survey.
• Selection of 3 new SCOR working groups.
• Discussion of refreshed plans and objectives from SCOR's projects.
• Continued building of relationships with international partners.
• Sharing ideas across national committees for strengthening national contributions to SCOR and international ocean science.

Reports and presentations prepared for the meeting are available on the meeting webpage.

Mark your calendars for the 2026 SCOR Annual Meeting: 8-10 September 2026, with a pre-meeting event on 7 September. The meeting will be in Helsinki, Finland hosted by the SCOR Finnish National Committee.

We are excited to announce the hosts and locations of the 2027 meeting, the Chilean National Committee/SHOA in Valparaíso, Chile and of the 2028 meeting, the Belgian National Committee/VLIZ in Bruges/Oostend, Belgium.

Participants in the 2025 SCOR annual meeting.

Conduct of business at the SCOR annual meeting.

Winners of the Symposium poster awards.

Interactions at the symposium poster session.

Photo credit for all above photos: INVEMAR

Upcoming Deadline! 2026 Visiting Scholar Applications

Travel Grants: Support the attendance of early-career, developing-country scientists at your meetings and trainings!

SCOR provides grants to meeting and training organizers to provide travel grants to increase the international participation in their meetings. Applications from meeting organizers are reviewed quarterly by the SCOR Capacity Development Committee. The next deadline is coming up on 31 December. Read the requirements and download an application here.

The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product (IDP) 2025 has been released!

The 2025 IDP was released on 20 November. The IDP2025 contains data from 123 cruises, comprised on trace elements and isotopes (TEI) that serve as micronutrients, contaminants (e.g., Pb and Hg), radioactive and stable isotopes including those used in paleoceanography and a broad suite of hydrographic parameters used to trace water masses, as well as, it provides microbiological data. The dataset thus covers a wide range of biogeochemical parameters, as well as aerosol and precipitation data characterising atmospheric TEI sources and cryosphere TEI data from the Arctic. The TEI data in the IDP2025 are quality controlled by careful assessment of intercalibration results and multi-laboratory data comparisons at crossover stations.

Access the data

View the launch recording

The GEOTRACES State Estimate Project

GEOTRACES is launching a new community effort to produce a set of global gridded climatologies for the trace elements and isotopes (TEIs) measured over the last two decades by the international GEOTRACES program. These climatologies, referred to as GEOTRACES State Estimates (GSEs) are intended to complement the IDPs released by the program, by providing global TEI distribution estimates that will broaden the reach of GEOTRACES data to new scientific communities. The GSE product will comprise model-predicted TEI distributions that are informed by and validated against the original GEOTRACES data, compiled into a single accessible archive.

Read more and learn how to get involved

Call for Applications to the SOLAS Early Career Scientist Committee

The SOLAS ECSC welcomes applications from ECS who have received their latest PhD degree within 10 years (with an extension allowance for caregiving leave) as well as PhD students. The committee members are appointed for a 3-year term or until they can no longer be defined as an ESC. Candidates from developing countries, island states, and Oceania are explicitly encouraged to apply. In SOLAS, we seek to build a diverse and unbiased academic culture. We encourage ECS from underrepresented groups in Atmospheric and Ocean sciences (including law, economics and policy aspects) to apply as new members. Expertises from all themes of SOLAS science are encouraged, particularly expertise in polar and coastal systems, data science (AI and Machine Learning applied to marine sciences), and modeling of fundamental biogeochemical processes.

The call for (self-)nominations is now open until 9 January 2026. 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).

Registration is Now Open for FAIRSEAS – A Joint SOLAS, OASIS, CLIVAR Workshop!

Registration is now open for FAIRSEAS, a one-day EuroMarine Foresight Workshop jointly organised by SOLAS, OASIS (Observing Air–Sea Interactions Strategy), and CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change). It will be held on 21 February 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland, with an online participation option.

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Join the Ocean 100+ Network

The Ocean 100+ Network is an international initiative endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade and supported by IMBeR, uniting researchers and stakeholders to co-develop a global, science-based Action Plan for the Ocean.

Read the full call for participants

IMECaN Survey - Future of ECR Networks

IMBeR's Interdisciplinary Marine Early Career Network (IMECaN) invites you to take part in a short survey designed to help us better understand the backgrounds, interests, communication needs, and engagement of early-career ocean professionals. This survey aims to encourage early-career researchers (ECRs) and ocean professionals in marine sciences to reflect on the future of ocean-related early-career networks - both the near future, the (i.e., beyond the UN Ocean Decade) and the far future.

Take the survey

Call for Leadership Team Members: SOOS Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land (WSDML) Regional Working Group

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) is calling for nominations, including self-nominations, of interested individuals to serve on the leadership team of the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land (WSDML) Regional Working Group (RWG). The Leadership Group drives the activities and strategic oversight of the working group, and should where possible, include a representative from each of the main nations working in the region, and diversity in gender, expertise and career level.

Read more here

Cross-disciplinary indicators framework proposed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

A new publication in the Journal of Marine Policy makes progress on developing a robust, multidisciplinary, evidence-based ocean indicators framework. Development of three out of nine proposed pilot indicators was led by representatives from IOCCP.

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Event Report: WG 167 RUSTED Workshop

The Iron at the Air-Sea Interface Workshop was held in July 2025 in Asheville, NC, USA and was co-organized by SCOR WG 167 RUSTED and supported by SCOR and the National Science Foundation. The workshop convened international experts in atmospheric-ocean interactions biogeochemistry to explore and cutting-edge knowledge about trace element cycling at the air-sea boundary. 

Read the event report

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