SOOS SSC member Dr. Mohamed Adjou has been selected as a 2026 Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research Visiting Scholar 🎉👏

A fantastic recognition that supports our shared work to strengthen regional capacity and build more connected, coordinated Southern Ocean observations.

Join the upcoming @scarinstant.bsky.social webinar:

❄️ The Cryosphere Pavilion #COP30: Early career researcher's experience & how to participate with Marcela Alves de Castro (Brazil) and Ailin Sol Ortone Lois (Argentina)

📌 14 April, 15:00 CET

Zoom link to join: us02web.zoom.us/j/8766705470...

🌊 Next #SOFLUX_webinar: Phytoplankton blooms: hotspots for CO₂ absorption in the Southern Ocean

A 17‑month drifting buoy time series shows the Southern Ocean carbon sink is largely inherited and advected, not locally formed.

🗣️ Kirtana Naëck
📅 28 Apr | 14:00 UTC
▶️ go.soos.aq/Register_SOFLUX_Webinar

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.

🌍 SOOS endorses COCO2 — a major effort to reduce uncertainty in the ocean carbon sink.

By deploying advanced, model- & AI-informed adaptive observing missions, COCO2 will improve how we measure CO₂ uptake in the Southern Ocean.

🔗 buff.ly/CC6HbHl

🧩 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
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🚨 SOIS RWG Newsletter is live: News from the Southern Ocean Indian Sector!

Featuring:
🔦Researcher Spotlight: Ippolita Tersigni @ippy90.bsky.social
📝 East Antarctic shelf research strategy white paper
💼 Opportunities
📅 Events & workshops

📬 Read & join the community: mailchi.mp/a4f464f320d0...

🌊 Updates from the 2025–2026 field season:
Hear what's happening in the Amundsen & Bellingshausen Seas right now at our next #ABS_Webinar.

🧊Thwaites Glacier recap
🌊Ice-melt & nutrient exchanges (BRINE)

📅 15 April, 13:30 UTC
👉 go.soos.aq/ABS_Webinar_Register

Hear directly from scientists involved!

SOFLUX Seminar, "Southern Ocean freshening, CO2-rich deep waters, & emerging surface fluxes" YouTube video by Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)

🌊 Are we missing what’s happening below the surface - if we only look at surface data?

In the latest #SOFLUX_webinar, Léa Olivier shows how a fresh surface layer can act like a lid—hiding CO₂-rich waters rising below, revealed only through rare subsurface observations

▶️ Watch: youtu.be/9Se6660zk4Q

🌊 Last chance for ECRs - with interest in the Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land!

Want to get involved in Southern Ocean science at an international level?

SOOS & APECS are looking for an ECR representative (WSDML working group).

🗓 Apply by 26 March
👉 www.apecs.is/news/apecs-n...

The last 11 years have been the hottest years ever recorded. Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest than at any time in observed history, with heat reaching deeper into the ocean. This is the Global #StateOfClimate 2025.

📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/4ds4r2V

#WorldMetDay

❄️ What better way to celebrate turning 30 than a swim in the Southern Ocean?

We’re launching SOOS Alumni in the Spotlight, a new series celebrating our community.

First up: Sian Henley on science, community, and life beyond SOOS 👉 soos.aq/news/alumni-in-the-spotlight-sian-henley

Next #SOFLUX_Webinar will feature Léa Olivier ( @awi.de ) presenting on:

“Southern Ocean freshening, CO₂-rich deep waters, & emerging surface fluxes in a changing climate”

🗓 25 Mar
⏰ 15:00UTC
🔗 go.soos.aq/Register_SOFLUX_Webinar

🌊 Early Career Researchers: advance your career, visibility, and network!

SOOS & APECS seek an ECR representative for the Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land RWG.

Build your network, gain leadership experience & contribute to Southern Ocean science.

🗓 Apply by 26 March 👉 www.apecs.is/news/apecs-n...

📢 Opportunity for Early-Career Ocean Scientists! Apply to join the SCOR Executive Committee to ensure the #ECOP perspective is included in SCOR's leadership.

This 2-year position is open to ocean science professionals less than 10 years out from their degree. More at scor-int.org/2026/03/09/c....

🤖 Machine learning is helping us explore Antarctic ecosystems!

A new review by Gorry et al. shows how satellite, drone data, and curated resources like SOOS enable modeling of ice, ocean, and life in the Southern Ocean 👉👉doi.org/10.3390/rs18030459

📢 Reminder: Abstract submissions for the 12th SCAR Open Science Conference (10–14 Aug 2026, Oslo 🇳🇴) close 28 February 2026.

Find our sessions below!

Planning to submit something related to SOOS ? Please get in touch so we can coordinate efforts. 🌊❄️

#OSM26 kicks off 22 Feb in Glasgow! 🌊

At the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026, the Southern Ocean Observing System community is leading & contributing to sessions on air–sea fluxes, carbon, tech & open polar data.

Attending? Join us!
🔗 soos.aq/events/osm26-sessions

🌍✈️ Polar science meeting season is here!

With OSM, EGU & SCAR approaching, many of us are preparing to travel. Conferences drive collaboration, but they also carry a real carbon footprint.

𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: Leadership in climate science = leadership in climate responsibility.

Small choices add up:

🌊 SOFLUX Newsletter is out!

Highlights:
🎓 ECR spotlight: Léa Olivier (Alfred Wegener Institute) on the Southern Ocean CO₂ sink
📚 New papers on Southern Ocean Air-Sea Fluxes
🌍 Project updates: ATMOS2 & TRICUSO
✈️ Tips for reducing your conference carbon footprint

🔗 More: go.soos.aq/SOFLUX_Feb_2026

🎥 New #SOFLUX_Webinar recording!

“Insights from 13 years of Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) observations” by Haifeng Zhang (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

A valuable long-term perspective on air–sea exchange processes in the Southern Ocean.

🔗 Watch the recording here: youtu.be/uN-pPES2YaA

🌊📊 Southern Ocean biodiversity under the spotlight!

SOOS, @scar-antarctic.bsky.social & AAD workshop defined region-specific Essential Biodiversity Variables to track changes in sea ice, plankton, benthic, & predator systems.

🔗 doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2025.00038
🧵 Part of #SOOSSymposium2023 issue

For our 12th edition of our monthly International Day of Women and Girls in Science post (#IDWGS2025), we’re featuring Alyce Hancock, Executive Officer of @soosocean.bsky.social!

⏰Reminder: #SOFLUX_webinar on air-sea heat flux coming up on Monday! Register➡️ go.soos.aq/Register_SOFLUX_Webinar

SCAR Invites Community Feedback on Antarctica InSync Science Theme White Papers | SCAR

❄️-covered SO Key Gaps :
• Year-round under-ice data missing
• Sparse ice shelf & continental shelf observations
• Few direct air–sea heat & CO₂ flux measurements
• Limited ecosystem & biogeochemical data
• Fragmented data standards & stewardship

Feedback open until 15 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/in...

🧊⚠️ Rapid change. Limited observations. Big consequences.

SOOS & @oceaniceeu.bsky.social defined 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻.

Built by ~30 international experts. Timed for #AntarcticaInSync & #IPY5

Read: go.soos.aq/White_Paper_Priorities&Harmonisation

🇦🇶 What concerns you most about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and why? 🇦🇶

SCAR is updating its Horizon Scan and we invite you to contribute.

🔷 Submit your response by 1 March 2026 and help focus international research where it is most needed: bit.ly/scar-horizon...

Governing the Cryosphere Beyond Political Timeframes YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative

🌍 Open Letter to World Leaders — post-COP30 update

"Without sustained observations, stable financing,(...), we risk governing for a climate that effectively no longer exists"

🎥 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnI...

📄 Post-COP30 analysis (Nat. Comm.): eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Air–sea heat flux in the Southern Ocean: insights from 13 years of Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) observations The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in our climate by acting as a giant heat sponge for the Earth. However, in situ observations in this remote enviro

📖 Recent paper: Zhang & Schulz (2025), J. Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science: doi.org/10.1071/ES25...

Come & hear about it at our next #SOFLUX_webinar: soos.aq/events/soflux-webinars

🌊 #SOFLUX_Webinar: 13 Yrs of Heat Flux Insights from the Southern Ocean

🗓️ Feb 9, 9:00 UTC
🎤 Haifeng Zhang (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Explore over a decade of Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) data revealing how the Southern Ocean absorbs heat

💻 Register: buff.ly/xVcXFjK

🌊 Ross Sea MPA Research Coordination Network – Annual Meeting

Join the global science–policy community supporting the Ross Sea region MPA review.

📍 Estes Park, Colorado (USA)
📅 27–30 April
🖥️ In person & virtual

📝 Register by 19 Feb
✈️ Travel💸 available

🔗 www.rosssearesearch.org/annual-meeti...

DMSC (Data Committee) The SOOS Data Management Sub-Committee (DMSC) provides guidance to the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee on the most cost effective collaborative mechanisms for managing and publishing data from…

Together, their expertise spans physical oceanography, FAIR data governance, AI & geospatial analysis, metadata standards, environmental data stewardship, and SOOSmap—strengthening SOOS’s mission to make Southern Ocean data accessible to the global community 🌊📊

Interested as well? buff.ly/OB6YQvC