🕵️‍♀️Observations are key to unraveling the mysteries of our oceans!

A recent review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 highlights the enigma of the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle: Despite being iron-limited with low productivity in most areas, the Southern Ocean still manages to act as a

Good things come in threes! We warmly welcome three new APECS ECR representatives to our Regional Working Groups!

Rebecca Konijnenberg for the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land (WSDML RWG)
Martina Mascioni for the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc (WAPSA RWG)
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“Extreme lows in Antarctic sea ice led researchers to suggest that a regime shift is under way in the ⁦⁦⁦⁦Southern Ocean⁩, and we found multiple lines of evidence that support such a shift to a new sea ice state.”—Will Hobbs, AAPP/University of Tasmania⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Have a look at the latest SOOS CAPS working group publication 👀➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

SOOS Censusing Animal Populations from Space (CAPS) Capability Working Group (CWG): soos.aq/activities/cwg…

Next #SOFLUX_webinar coming up on 2nd of May at 23 UTC: 'Drivers of air-sea CO2 flux in the Subantarctic Zone revealed by time series observations'. Speaker is Xiang Yang from IMAS.

🔄🇦🇶🕔 Register here: bit.ly/SOFLUX_webinar…

Did you know that 330 zooplankton experts met in March for the global #ZPS7 ?

Amongst others, they highlighted the need to better quantify the relative roles of major zooplankton groups to enhance understanding of their 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝

A happy seagoing season! We just released a newsletter from SOOS Southern Ocean Indian Sector (SOIS) Regional Working Group:
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Stay updated with the latest news, opportunities, and recent papers in the SOIS🇦🇶🌊

GOOS Regional Alliance representatives gathered in Barcelona and online for the 11th GRA Forum!

During the next 2 days we will reflect on progress and explore how we can strengthen our collaboration in delivering sustained global #oceanobservations for societal benefit. 🌏

Attention ECRs in the #RossSea ! Extend your CV by becoming the new APECS Representative in the SOOS Ross Sea Regional Working Group!

Deadline approaching fast! Apply until 5 April!

Your opportunity to gain valuable experience⬇️

🧐 Are you attending the #ArcticObservingSummit #AOS2024 in Edinburgh later this month, and interested in #OceanObserving ?

Join the session ‘Co-designing a pan-Arctic ocean observing alliance’, which will be held 13:30-18:00 on 28 March (room Nelson) ⏳✍️ bit.ly/49TqcUX

4/5 'Currently it does not appear that emission targets are strong enough ... to avoid continued disruption of the Antarctic sea-ice cycle.' — more info in our updated science briefing 'On Thin Ice' with Australian Centre for Antarctic Science (ACEAS), for you to download and share ➡️ aappartnership.org.au/wp-content/upl…

📢 ECR Opportunity Alert! Join the leadership team of the Ross Sea Regional Working Group with APECS and SOOS.

If you're an early career scientist passionate about the Southern Ocean and working in the Ross Sea, apply until 5th of April! Details ➡️:

Calling the Antarctica/Southern Ocean (ASO) community! Take this survey to identify the types of data products most essential for your work and inform the development of ASO data-related resources and infrastructure.
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Out now! Watch the recent #SOFLUX_webinar online at youtube.com/@SOOS-Ocean!

📺'Opportunities and challenges for different mCDR approaches in the Southern Ocean'
➡️youtu.be/5zg-j-wDW0o
🗣️ Manon Berger (IPSL 🌍), Jing He (@Isometric_HQ) & Lennart Bach (@IMASUTAS)

Call for Abstracts #SCAR2024 ! Please consider handing in your abstract to one of the SOOS co-led sessions:

#20 🐧🔬 – Recent and anticipate shifts in Southern Ocean biogeochemistry

#40 🌍🧩– Sharing science data FAIRly to support interdisciplinary research collaborations

Happy #SOOS_DATAMonday ! The Polar Federated Search has officially been re-branded to the 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 “𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑'.

Check it out: search.polder.info