Ocean Sciences Meeting – 2026

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Monday, February 23rd

12:30 – 13:45 GMT Siddhi Joshi, Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering.  Inclusivity to diversity-how to shatter the glass ceiling. Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering roundtable discussion, M4 (SEC).

12:45 – 13:45 GMT – Town Hall, The Society for Women in Marine Science. Alsh (SEC)

15:00 – 15:10 GMT – Anna Lo Piccolo, Brown University. A Parameterization for Submesoscale Entrainment and Subduction of Buoyancy and Passive Tracers, M1-SEC.

Tuesday, February 24th

08:50 GMT – Lily Dove, Georgia Tech. Standing Meanders of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Impact on Biogeochemistry and Air-Sea Fluxes from Observations, Hall 3, Blue Horizon

9:40 -9:50 GMT – Frederike Benz, The Southern Bransfield Front on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf: Structure, Variability, and Exchange,  SEC, Hall 3, Blue Horizon.

14:00–14:10 PM –  Heidi Hirsh, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), University of Miami. Predicting Carbonate Chemistry Sensitivity to Habitat Change: A Flowshed-Based Modeling Framework for Coral Reef Biogeochemistry in the Florida Keys,  Hall 3 — Kelp Forest (SEC).

14:02 – 14:11 GMT – Camille Pagniello, University of Hawaii at Mānoa. A Low-Cost, Modular Autonomous Water Sampler for Coastal Biogeochemical Monitoring, Hall 3‚ Deep Blue Lab – SEC.

14:11-14:20 GMT – Hannah Walker, Characterizing tidally driven particle distribution and size fluctuations with a novel, affordable video sensor, SEC, Hall 3, Deep Blue Lab.

16:00 – 17:30 GMT eLightning – Laura Sunberg, University of Colorado Boulder.  Modeled coastal microplastic biofouling and transport in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Hall 4.

Wednesday, February 25th

08:30 – 08:40 GMT –   Chan-Ye (Chris) Ohh, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  Evolution of turbulent fluxes in the wind- and wave-driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer from laboratory experiments, SEC, Hall 3, Tidal Pool.

9:20am – 9:30 GMT – Laura Crews, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Surface Wave Effects in Coastal Polynyas, Hall 3‚ Blue Horizon – SEC.

12:45 – 13:45 GMT – Town Hall – Building Bridges: Strengthening Connections and Opportunities Through MPOWIR
TH33D. SEC, Room: Hall 3, The Abyss

14:15 – 14:30 GMT –  Sierra Byrne, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  Small plume behaviors and fates in coastal seas, Boisdale (SEC).

16:00 – 18:00 GMT – Joyce Tongxin Cai, University of Washington. Rivers in the Sky, Filaments in the Sea: How Coastal Freshwater Shapes Offshore Submesoscale Fronts, Hall 4 (Poster Hall) 

Thursday, February 26th

11:10 – 11:20 GMT – Sarah Clem – MPOWIR, Mentorship: A Reciprocal Relationship for Career Resiliency, ED42A-05. SEC; Hall 3, Blue Horizon

11:20 – 11:30 GMT –  Youngji Joh, Evolving synchronization of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in a changing climate, Alsh.

14:11 – 14:22 GMT – Emma Shie Nuss, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Coupling E3SM to a GPU-enabled regional ocean model,  DO43A-02.

15:10 – 15:20 GMT – Mara Freilich, Brown University. Submesoscale Eddy Dispersion Affects Community Composition and Biogeochemistry Beyond the Coastal Upwelling Zone, SEC, Lomond Auditorium.

16:00-18:00 GMT – Agata Piffer Braga, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mapping and Investigating Barotropic Pressure Gradients in River Plumes Using SWOT, Board 1380‚ Hall 4

16:00 – 18:00 GMT – Andrea Rodriguez-Marin Freudmann, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. The Internal Surf Zone: Analyzing the Cross-Shore Dynamics of an Inner Shelf Subjected to Energetic Internal Tides, Hall 4 (Poster Hall) .

16:00-18:00 GMT –  Evridiki Chrysagi, University of Hamburg.  Storm Forcing of Submesoscale Turbulence Over Sloping Bathymetry,   Hall 4 (Poster Hall)

16:00-18:00 GMT –  Heather Jaques, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton. Thermal vs. Haline Drivers of Restratification in the Labrador Sea, Hall 4 (Poster Hall)

Friday, February 27th

11:32-11:42 GMT – Andy Thompson, Caltech. Variability of the Antarctic Coastal Current Inferred from Satellite Altimetry, Hall 3, Blue Horizon (SEC)