Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)

🚨 WSDML RWG: Call for Leadership Team Members

Nominations (including self-noms) invited for the SOOS Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land (WSDML) RWG Leadership Team!

Help drive activities & strategy in a friendly team!

Nominate by 30 Jan 2026 buff.ly/o3rdH5X

📢 For active researchers across all disciplines:

Respond to survey by 19/12 to share your perspectives on key developments, risks, and opportunities that merit attention by the UN’s scientific advisory processes.

(approximately 10 minutes): https://form.typeform.com/to/rW4YObVK

🌊 Join us for @scor-int.bsky.social WG 168 Webinar !

We are excited to welcome Dr. Navarra from @princeton.edu, who will present: “Causality Analysis of Positive Trend in Southern Ocean Chl-a”

📅 Date: Dec. 4th
⏰ Time: 16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Argo #OneArgo

🌊 New BGC Data Products Alert! 🚨

Thanks to @scor-int.bsky.social WG 168, 2 new data products are now live in our website:

👉G4D-DOC (O₂) → biogeochemical-argo.org/bgc-data-pro...

👉SONE (Nitrates) → biogeochemical-argo.org/bgc-data-pro...

Come explore them and see all the insights you can gain!

The GEOTRACES IDP2025 had a fantastic launch during the Summer School in Cape Town! 🌊

If you missed it, don’t worry—join us tomorrow, 25 November, from 05:00 to 06:30 UTC.
👇👇
www.geotraces.org/launch-of-ge...

@scor-int.bsky.social
@unoceandecade.bsky.social

#OceanData #OceanScience #IDP2025

🌊 The GEOTRACES Summer School has started!

📅 17–21 Nov 2025 - Cape Town, South Africa
🔗 geotraces-2025.sciencesconf.org

Training 36 students in marine biogeochemistry of trace elements & isotopes

Thanks @cnrs.fr @scor-int.bsky.social

#EarlyCareers #summerschool
#marinescience #oceanscience

🌊 Feeling the blues of a shifting ocean?

Join me next Wednesday, Nov 12 (16:00 CET / 15:00 UTC), for a @scor-int.bsky.social WG168 4D-BGC webinar where I’ll dive into the secret shifts of the ocean’s biological carbon pump in the past two decades

🔗 Register here: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔴 The global scientific community urges continued support for scientific research and collaboration to respond to climate crisis.

Read and share the statement: https://council.science/statements/climate-science/

✨ OPPORTUNITY! SCOR's 2026 Visiting Scholar program is open for applications!

This program supports the travel costs to conduct on-site education and mentorship at a developing-country institution.

📅 Apply by 15 December 2025
💻 More information at scor-int.org/work/capacit...

🚨 Register now! Launch of GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2025! 🌊

🎥 Join our release webinars:
20 Nov 13:15 UTC | 25 Nov 05:00 UTC
📝 Register: forms.gle/H4bMQ6PgjtQR...

Discover a rich collection of hydrographic and marine geochemical data!

@scor-int.bsky.social
@unoceandecade.bsky.social

Get involved in the 5th International Polar Year - International Science Council Preparations are underway for the 5th International Polar Year (IPY-5), a major international initiative advancing polar research and cooperation to address global challenges. As a co-convener and member of the IPY-5 Planning Group, the International Science Council (ISC) is pleased to share three new opportunities to engage in this global effort, coordinated by the IPY-5 Executive Committee and Interim Secretariat.

❄️ Get involved in the Fifth International Polar Year (IPY-5)! As a co-convener and member of the IPY-5 Planning Group, the ISC is pleased to share three key opportunities open for engagement: https://council.science/news/get-involved-in-the-5th-international-polar-year/.

📢 Call for Nominations: SOOS Southern Ocean Fluxes (SOFLUX) group is seeking new leadership members

🌊 Help drive strategy on air–sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, momentum & gases in the #SouthernOcean

🗓️ Nomination deadline: 15 Oct 2025
🔗 Details: soos.aq/opportunitie...

Applications are now open for leadership positions within the Plastic in Polar Environments Expert Group (SPEG).

Lead one of five dedicated Working Groups that address different aspects of plastic pollution in the polar regions.

📅 Apply by 2nd Nov: scar.org/scar-news/li...

🌊❄️ Join us 14–16 Oct 2025 for the Virtual Workshop: Ocean Connectivity & Exchange Across the Antarctic Peninsula

free | 3 sessions | global time zones | talks + discussions

👉 Sponsored by SOOS WAPSA RWG
🔗 More info & program: airtable.com/appoukWG95eu...

🚨 ABS RWG: Call for Leadership Team Members

Nominations (including self-noms) invited for the SOOS Amundsen & Bellingshausen Sector RWG Leadership Team!

Help drive activities & strategy in a friendly team!

Deadline extended to 22 Oct 2025 👉 soos.aq/opportunities

#SOOS_DATAMonday: 2x🤔 Think twice before publishing! 📊 Only ~50% of datasets in Nature & Science were readily accessible in 2019

Why open data matters in a field where stakes are high & datasets are complex and costly to obtain #ClimateChange #PolarScience?

Newsletter is out!
mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-ne...

🎙️ #Podcast: How can early- and mid-career researchers shape meaningful careers in a fast-changing world? Find out in our new podcast series in partnership with Nature.

🎧 Listen to the first episode here: council.science/podcasts/pod...

Final days to apply! The application deadline for the SOLAS Summer School 2026 is 15 September 2025.
📍 Tamandaré, Brazil 📷
📅 9-21 March 2026
Apply now: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...

Excited to announce that we will be hosting the 6th International Symposium on Oceans in a High CO2 World October 12 to 16th in Wellington at the Tākina event center! This conference will bring together marine climate change scientists from multiple disciplines. Save the date!

🚨 Register Now!
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html

SCOR is pleased to invite early-career scientists in Colombia to participate in a symposium on 28 October, which will precede SCOR's annual meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia.

View the programme and apply to present a poster at: scor-int.org/events/scor-...

Upon many last minute requests, we are pleased to announce that the application deadline for the SOLAS Summer School 2026 has been extended unitl 15 September 2025!
📍Tamandaré, Pernambuco (PE), Brazil
📅 9-27 March, 2026
Apply now: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...

🌊 SOOS Early Career Newsletter – Sept 2025 is out!
mailchi.mp/5ce3720a9179...

👋 Welcome new ECR reps:

🧹 Explore the Frictionless Data project for smarter data cleaning

📄 ECR perspective on ocean negative carbon emissions

Subscribe & stay connected with SOOS ECRs: airtable.com/apphL7veWjIB...

Virtual Workshop on Ocean Connectivity and Exchange Across the Antarctic Peninsula: Processes and Impacts Organizers: Tiago S. Dotto (1), Kate Hendry (2), Carlos Moffat (3), Andrea Piñones (4,5,6), Madeleine Youngs (7). (1) National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK; (2) University of Delaware,…

🌊 Virtual Workshop: Ocean Connectivity & Exchange Across the Antarctic Peninsula 🌍

📅 Oct 14–16, 2025 | 2–3 hrs/day
💬 Invited talks • Short presentations • Discussions

🔗 Submit interest/short talk by Sept 5 → buff.ly/tLHpaWz?
By SOOS WAPSA RWG

🌊Are you interested in participating in #OAWeek2025?
We are currently soliciting session ideas and seeking leads/co-leads for OA Week events.

📊Please fill out this survey by 1 September to share your interest in presenting or leading a session as well as topic suggestions: t.co/XhdXOVwVay

Only 7 days remain to apply for the SOLAS Summer School 2026 — make sure your application is submitted before the deadline (31 August 2025)!

📍Tamandaré, Pernambuco (PE), Brazil
📅 9-27 March 2026

Apply now: t.co/SwrynoAPY0

Applications open: 3rd winter school on ocean acidification and multiple stressors
Dates: 24 November – 5 December 2025
Location: Monaco
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info: news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2025/06/27/a...

Biogeochemical exchanges at Sea Ice Interfaces - BEPSII - CATCH Sea-Ice School 2026 Saroma Sea Ice School 2026 Saroma-ko Lagoon, Hokkaido, Japan From 28 Feb. to 9 Mar. 2026 By BEPSII, CIce2Clouds, CATCH DESCRIPTION Saroma Sea Ice School 2026 is designed for early-career...

❄️🧊Our Sea Ice School is back in 2026!

📅 🌏 Join us in Saroma-Ko Lagoon, Hokkaido, Japan from Feb 28 to Mar 9 for hands-on polar training in sea ice, snow, clouds & aerosols.

🏫 Open to PhD, MSc & early postdocs. Apply by Sept 2025!

🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/3fhwa6ak

📝 Apply: tinyurl.com/56pafvdd

International Workshop: The Role of Marine Biology in Helping the Ocean Store Carbon
🗓️ 2-4 March 2026
📍 Glasgow, UK & Online
➡️Apply by 24 August 2025: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...