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Call for Papers: SOLAS–OLAR Special Section on Greenhouse Gas Budgets Across the Land–Ocean Continuum

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, December 29th, 2025 

SOLAS and Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Research (OLAR) are pleased to invite submissions to a special section entitled “Greenhouse Gas Budgets Across the Land–Ocean Continuum” throughout 2026.

Greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide) uptake, production and emission rates in near-coastal systems remain highly uncertain, yet their quantification is crucial to both adequately assess domestic and global inventories in view of ongoing climate change, and to enable accurate reporting as well as effective mitigation measures. This special section welcomes contributions addressing greenhouse gas cycling and emissions in coastal to offshore environments, spanning natural, climate change induced, and other anthropogenic sources/sinks (e.g. aquaculture, waste water plants, river discharge). The aim of the special section is to present a holistic synthesis of the current state-of-the-science in greenhouse gas budgets across the land-ocean continuum.

Key Highlights:
• Article Processing Charges (APCs) are fully waived
• Accepted manuscripts are eligible for a free figure polishing service provided by the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
• Submissions are encouraged throughout 2026
Authors can submit at https://www.editorialmanager.com/olar/ or visit the OLAR journal website at https://spj.science.org/journal/olar. When submitting, select the topic titled “Greenhouse gas budgets across the land-ocean continuum”.

New Air-Sea book chapter

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, December 19th, 2025 

Stanley, R. H. R. and Bell, T. G.: “Air-sea gas exchange and marine gases”, in: Treatise in Geochemistry, 3rd Edition ed., edited by: Andbar, A., and Weis, D., Elsevier, 2024.
Read it here

Mentee + Mentor opp at OSM26 with OAIC – apps closed

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 
Dear members of the air-sea interaction community,
We invite you to participate in a low time-commitment, flexible and hopefully helpful mentoring event at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow. We are setting up a near-peer mentoring program. We expect it to be about a 2 hour commitment for mentors or mentees – spending a bit of time before the meeting prepping and then having one in person get-together (coffee break, lunch, drinks, etc.) at OSM.. For those interested, we will be matching  participants with a next-stage mentor (i.e. grad student with postdoc, postdoc with early faculty, early faculty with late faculty) prior to the conference. The mentoring pair will pick a time that works for both of them to meet during the conference week – we recommend a coffee break on Monday or Tuesday or meeting up directly after sessions end one of those days, but the timing is completely up to you. We suggest that mentors and mentees email each other introductions before the event as well as coordinate schedules. There are cafes and pubs near the conference centers that you could use for your meeting, or you could meet in one of the common spaces of the conference center itself.
Anyone attending the conference is welcome to sign up, even though our committee focuses on researchers who work in the general field of the upper ocean, lower atmosphere, or the interactions between. Please use the link below to sign up if you want to be a mentor, a mentee or both. And please forward this email to friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.
Applications are now closed.
Best wishes, the OAIC (the Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee)

SOLAS, OASIS, and CLIVAR Workshop FAIRSEAS: The Future of Internationally Coordinated Air-Sea Interactions Research

Posted by hbenway 
· Friday, October 31st, 2025 

SAVE THE DATE!

Feb. 21, 2026 (Edinburgh, Scotland – hybrid format)

The workshop will feature presentations and discussions spanning observational, modeling, and remote-sensing approaches to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes at the air-sea interface. We look forward to connecting the SOLAS, OASIS, and CLIVAR communities to advance this vital global science effort.

https://mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-announcement-solas-oasis-clivar-workshop-5873377

 

OSM SOLAS session

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, July 21st, 2025 

SOLAS session: AI005 – SOLAS and SOCOM: Understanding Interactions and Feedbacks between the Ocean and Atmosphere (Chairs: Rachel Stanley, William L Miller, Christa A Marandino, Amanda R Fay, and Thea Hatlen Heimdal) SOLAS town hall

 

Find many more SOLAS-relevant sessions below and on our our sessions list:

  1. AI001 – Advances in Air-Sea Interaction Observations and Remote Sensing: Autonomous Platforms, Multiscale Processes, and Cross-Disciplinary Linkages
  2. AI002 – Aerosol Deposition in the Ocean: Sources, Drivers and Biogeochemical Effects
  3. AI003 – Observations and Modeling of Physical Processes at and near the Air-sea Interface
  4. AI004 – Polar Air-sea Interactions in a Warming Climate
  5. AI006 – The Influence of Marine Biota on Air-sea Exchange Processes
  6. AI007 – Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: From Weather to Climate
  7. CM001 – Air-Sea Flux as the Limiting Step in Verifying Marine Blue Carbon
  8. CM003 – Biogeochemical and Ecological Insights for Evaluation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
  9. CM005 – Interdisciplinary Approaches and Scalable Pathways for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Integrating Science, Society, and Implementation
  10. CM006 – Modeling Approaches for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
  11. CC004 – Circulation, Biogeochemistry, and Coupled Processes in the Indian Ocean: Variability and Vulnerability to Anthropogenic Change
  12. CC015 – Marine Heatwave Drivers and Compound Events in a Changing Climate
  13. CC019 – Ocean Uptake, Transport, and Storage of Heat and Carbon
  14. HE014 – The Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: Processes, Observations, and Change

SOLAS and OASIS Joint Statement of Collaboration

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, April 28th, 2025 

The Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) and the Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) are formalising a collaborative partnership to advance and deepen scientific understanding of ocean-atmosphere interactions. This partnership merges SOLAS’s long-standing expertise in biogeochemical and physical processes with OASIS’s leadership in physical flux observations and operational oceanography, enabling a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to observing, modeling, and understanding the dynamic air-sea interface.

Through this affiliation, OASIS will become an officially recognised partner in the upcoming SOLAS 2026–2035 science plan, while SOLAS will designate liaisons to the OASIS Scientific Steering Committee. Together, the two programs will co-develop integrated strategies from small-scale process studies to Earth System Model improvements and capacity building in the Global South to joint participation in significant international efforts such as the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Key areas of collaboration include:
• Air-sea transition zone physical-biogeochemical process studies
• Integration of physical and biogeochemical satellite and in situ observational datasets
• Parameterisation of ocean-atmosphere interactions in coupled climate models
• Advancing Earth System Modeling through constrained air-sea flux estimates
• Support for early career researchers via training, liaisons, and interdisciplinary capacity-building programs
The partnership also includes a shared commitment to public engagement, standardised methodologies, and developing educational resources and events such as workshops, town halls, and curriculum initiatives. Regular meetings and representation on each other’s governance structures will ensure ongoing coordination, communication, and community alignment.

SOLAS and OASIS will work together to enhance the global impact of air-sea research by creating a more connected and solution-oriented scientific community.

Read the joint statement of collaboration here.

We welcome feedback on the statement here.

Read the latest SOLAS eNews

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Monday, March 10th, 2025 

SOLAS Update — read this monthly newsletter

 

OAIC – give us input for NASA decadal survey

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 

Do you do science related to the air-sea interactions? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Funding agencies often rely on the science community to identify and prioritize leading-edge scientific questions and required observations. NASA and its partners ask the National Research Council (NRC) once every decade to look out 10 years into the future and prioritize research areas, observations, and national missions.

The OCB Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Committee (OAIC) is gathering input and ideas for a white paper focused on our community’s priorities for NASA related air-sea interaction research.

Please fill out the form to share with us your ideas.

Your input and collaboration is critical to this process -a cohesive community voice on research priorities and key observables will be much more likely to garner NASA support for missions, field campaigns, etc. to support air-sea research.

Email oaic@whoi.edu with questions or further ideas.

SOLAS Social Gathering during 2025 XMAS

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 

SOLAS warmly invites everyone to join us in Xiamen for an evening of reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones. The gathering took place on Tuesday, 14 January 2025.

OAIC gathering at AGU Fall Meeting 2024

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 
People interested in ocean-atmosphere interactions and SOLAS are meeting up for drinks at AGU –  please come if you can. Everyone is welcome. The meetup will be on Thurs. Dec. 12 at 6:00 PM in Dacha Beer Garden. 1600 7th St NW, Washington DC 20001
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