Photos from the 2024 conference event in Oban.

Thanks to all who contributed.

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Colin Pelton
December Storms

"Over the past 5 years I have been fascinated by the changing seascapes across Christchurch Bay, viewed from Friars Cliff Beach in Dorset. In this trio of small oil paintings I've captured examples of winter storms. If the increase in storminess since the 1990s has been confined to the winter season, as research suggests, then December has proved a successful month for observing some spectacular weather around the UK coastline."

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Vanessa Madu
The Making of a Modeller

"Good Modelling is a Science, the best modelling is an art; how do we equip ocean scientists of the future with the scientific skills to understand our ocean and the creative instincts to model it? For me, it was through the freedom to build, play, and explore mathematical concepts and now I get to use those same concepts to create things much larger than I had ever imagined."

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Peter Burkill
Oh Dear

"Photo of a quizical polar bear taken on Sea-ice Flow off Svalbard"

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Other topics include integrating digital humans into environmental digital twins, addressing biases in research related to marine carbon dioxide removal, and exploring how local communities can engage in participatory environmental monitoring.

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The team are looking for someone who can connect with scientists and engineers to help define the best strategies for exploiting new technologies. Someone who is excited about new opportunities for marine research and can think across the big challenges. Someone who can peer over the horizon and imagine a different way of doing things.

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The biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is jointly convened by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and The Oceanography Society (TOS). The OSM is overseen by a Program Committee responsible for the scientific content of the meeting as well as ancillary events, plenary speakers, and award ceremonies. The Program Committee is composed of a Chair and Vice Chair selected by each of the three participating societies. This advertisement is for the AGU Vice Chair position.

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