Ocean Acidification Week 2024
A virtual multi-day forum highlighting the ocean acidification knowledge we need to restore humanity's relationship with the ocean.
Monday 18 November - Friday 22 November 2024
Goals
OA Week debuted in 2020, and returned in 2021, when events and conferences were postponed due to COVID-19. Following the successful in-person Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in 2022, GOA-ON brought back OA Week 2023 to maintain momentum around OA research and provide a virtual platform for the ocean acidification community to exchange their latest findings. In 2024, OA Week will highlight the ocean acidification knowledge we need to restore humanity's relationship with the ocean.
This virtual symposium will bring together researchers across the world with sessions, plenary speakers, and engaging talks about ocean acidification research. If you have specific questions, please contact us at secretariat@goa-on.org.
Image Credit: Alex Tyrrell/Ocean Image Bank
Schedule
OA Week strives to feature early career ocean professionals (ECOPs) through its choice of organisers, speakers, and moderators. All ECOPs and members of the GOA-ON ICONEC Community for ECOPs are recognized by an asterisk (*) next to their name. If you are an ECOP and not a member yet, please consider joining the GOA-ON ICONEC Community.
18 November
SAROA Hub
Monday
18 November 2024 at 9:00 UTC View in various time zones
The South Asia Regional Hub on Ocean Acidification (SAROA) was established to cover the countries surrounded by regional seas and oceans across South Asia. Participating countries include India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan and Oman. SAROA was established to promote the practice of collection of geographically distributed data on ocean acidification encompassing South Asian waters including from vulnerable yet ecologically important coastal biotopes such as mangroves, estuaries, salt marshes, lagoons and coral reefs. SAROA intends to promote the development of national hubs for effective monitoring of OA and carry out capacity building activities geared towards early career researchers.
More speakers and presentation topics to be announced soon!
Speakers
Amit Kumar
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, India
Ashwin Bhagavatula
RISCO, Singapore
Updates from the ICONA Network
Monday
18 November 2024 at 12:00 UTC View in various time zones
The International CO2 Natural Analogues Network (ICONA) project aims at facilitating innovative research on the ecosystem-level effects of ocean acidification using natural analogues. This allows us to efficiently disseminate the findings that can underpin adaptive management strategies in order to mitigate the impacts of rapidly changing ocean conditions.
Speakers
Dr. Braden Tierney*
2 frontiers project, USA
Dr. Nuria Teixidó
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Dr. Carlos Leiva*
University of Guam
Dr. Fabian Goesser*
Ryukyus University, Japan
Dr. Marco Milazzo
Palermo University
OA Med Hub
Monday
18 November 2024 at 14:00 UTC View in various time zones
The Mediterranean Ocean Acidification Hub is a network that connects Mediterranean scientists who are working and are interested in ocean acidification in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) has encouraged grass-roots formation of regional hubs to foster communities of practice for the efficient collection of comparable and geographically distributed data to assess ocean acidification and its effects, and to support adaptation tools such as model forecasts.
The OA Mediterranean Hub includes scientists from fourteen countries in the region: Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, and Türkiye.
Speakers and presentation topics to be announced soon!
19 November
Building Capacity in Physical Chemistry for Oceanography: How To Address the Emerging Skills Gaps
Tuesday
19 November 2024 at 16:00 UTC View in various time zones
This community discussion will introduce the results of an online survey and consultation conducted earlier this year with the ocean science community to assess what we perceive as emerging skills gaps in basic physical chemistry training and expertise in several areas of chemical oceanography, especially (but not exclusively) including the ocean carbonate system. The purpose of this discussion will be to decide next steps for a community activity (most likely a Workshop) including its focus, content, participants, and outcomes to help address the emerging skills gap identified in the survey.
We invite you to read the Survey Report describing the skills gap survey results and associated community feedback on recommended paths forward. Find more details on the marchemspec website.
Panellists to be announced soon.
Speakers
Heather Benway
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Simon Clegg
University of East Anglia, UK
Arctic Hub
Tuesday
19 November 2024 at 18:00 UTC View in various time zones
The Arctic Ocean Acidification Hub (Arctic Hub) is a network for different disciplines of ocean acidification (OA), including observations, experiments and modelling within the Arctic region.
Speakers
Agneta Fransson and Melissa Chierici
Norwegian Polar Institute and Havforskingsinstituttet (HI) / Institute for Marine Research, Norway
Introduction to the Arctic Hub
Kate Ortenzi
Dalhousie University, Canada
On projects - Indigenous and Arctic communities
Claudine Hauri
University of Alaska Fairbanks, US
Community OA projects - Indigenous and Arctic communities
Elise Droste*
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany & University of East Anglia, UK
Arctic ocean chemistry
Lorenz Meire*
Greenland Climate Research Centre
Effects of OA and meltwater on Arctic biological production
20 November
PI-TOA Hub
Wednesday
20 November 2024 at 0:00 UTC View in various time zones
Moderator(s)
Azaria Pickering
Pacific Community, Oceans and Maritime Programme, Fiji
Speakers
Sabastian van de Velde
University of Otago, New Zealand
Melissa Melendez
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA
Maisy Lus
Fish Reef Project PNG
Katy Soapi
The Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science, Fiji
Kaitlyn Lowder
The Ocean Foundation, USA
Marine Chemical Speciation
Wednesday
20 November 2024 at 15:00 UTC View in various time zones
This presentation and community discussion will introduce the MarChemSpec software package (see https://marchemspec.org), which can be used to calculate chemical speciation in natural waters containing the ions present in seawater. MarChemSpec is not restricted to standard seawater composition, unlike CO2SYS and similar software. Thus carbonate equilibria, for example, can be calculated for natural waters with any major ion composition, and the same is true for the complexation of the trace metals that are the focus of GEOTRACES. The model results include estimated uncertainties.
Applications of MarChemSpec include not just the calculations of equilibrium concentrations, activities, and values of the four CO2 seawater variables (pHT, total alkalinity, total dissolved inorganic carbon, and pCO2) but also saturation with respect to solid phases.
Speakers
David Turner
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
21 November
OA Africa
Thursday
21 November 2024 at 12:00 UTC View in various time zones
Ocean Acidification Africa is a pan-African network specifically convened to coordinate and promote ocean acidification (OA) awareness and research in Africa. Research activities on ocean acidification and related stressors on the African continent are developing rapidly in response to a clear need for action to minimize and address the impacts posed by changing climatic and system wide changes. OA-Africa is composed of scientists interested in conducting research on ocean acidification monitoring and observation in Africa and they are part of the wider Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network.
This session will also introduce the new Gulf of Guinea Ocean Acidification Network (GG-OAN)!
Speakers and presentation topics to be announced soon!
Caribbean Hub
Thursday
21 November 2024 at 15:00 UTC View in various time zones
Speakers and presentation topics to be announced soon!
22 November
LAOCA
Friday
22 November 2024 at 15:00 UTC View in various time zones
Speakers
José Gilberto Cardoso Mohedano
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Estación El Carmen. Cd. Del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico
Exploring the Carbon Mysteries of the Largest Karstic Lagoon in Southern Gulf Mexico
T. Leticia Espinosa Carreón
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIDIIR Sinaloa
Factores que determinan la variabilidad del flujo de CO2 océano - atmósfera en 5 zonas costeras del golfo de California
Natalie del Carmen Semanche Bravo
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruíz Gallo, Perú
Cecilia Chapa Balcorta
Instituto de Recursos, Licenciatura en Oceanología, Universidad del Mar. Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, México
Dissolved inorganic carbon distribution at the oxygen minimum zone of the Gulf of Tehuantepec