SOOS Symposium 2027: Save the date! 📍 Naples, Italy ·📅 6–10 September 2027 You are warmly invited to five days of discussion, collaboration and coordination around Southern Ocean science! #SOOSSymposium2027 (Associated meetings or events: 4–11 September) 🔍Wanna know more? · Follow here, or visit soos.aq/soos-symposium-2027 · Sign up to stay in the loop: go.soos.aq/Symposium2027Upda…

📣Today's #SOFLUX_webinar with Isabelle Giddy postponed to 22 October 2026! Existing registration will still be valid. New registration welcome: go.soos.aq/Register_SOFLUX_W…

🌊 Welcome to three new @Polar_Research ECR Representatives joining SOOS Regional Working Group leadership! 🔹 Ruobing Cao — Ross Sea 🔹 Emma White — Amundsen & Bellingshausen 🔹 Lucie Knor — West Antarctic Peninsula & Scotia Arc 👉 Meet them here: soos.aq/news/early-career-re…

⭐️New Co-chairs for the Ross Sea RWG! The SOOS Ross Sea Regional Working Group announces two new co-chairs: Pasquale Castagno and Peter Washam. Previous chair Daniel Costa will step back from the co-chair role and continue as part of the Ross Sea RWG leadership team.

🌊 Workshop: "Towards a synchronized Antarctic circumpolar moored ocean observatory" 📅 4 December 2026 | 09:00–12:00 CET 💻 Online 📝 Register by 18 October 🔗 apecs.is/news/apecs-news/551… #SYNCHRONY and #AntarcticaInSync are bringing together teams operating long-term ocean moorings around Antarctica to share what exists, what is missing, and where collaboration could make a difference. The online workshop will look across observatories — from the deep Southern Ocean to continental shelves and beneath ice shelves — and share technical, logistical and scientific experience. Participants are invited to share: I CAN — something your group can contribute I CAN’T — something currently blocking your ambitions

🤖 How could AI help us decide what, where and when to observe in the Southern Ocean? Join the OAISIS / #SYNCHRONY workshop to explore how AI/ML could support future polar observing system design. 📅 18–19 November 2026 (Register by 5 Oct) 📍 Munich + online 🔗docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… The interactive workshop will combine Southern Ocean observations, sea ice, observing system design and hands-on machine learning — bringing different communities together to test what AI can actually contribute.

🧑‍💼Open positions on the WAPSA RWG Leadership Team! Want to build your international network & help shape coordinated observing in the West Antarctic Peninsula & Scotia Arc region? 🗓️ Apply by 31 Oct 👉soos.aq/opportunities

🌊 State of the Southern Ocean in 2025 @SandyThomalla and other SOOS members contributed to this year’s @ametsoc State of the Climate: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-26-01… 🌡️ Widespread warming 🔥 Record-high upper-ocean heat content 🌊 Enhanced ocean heat uptake 🌱 Elevated summer chlorophyll, especially in the Atlantic 🫧 Negative surface oxygen anomalies

EXTENDED TO 6th NOVEMBER! Every input is valuable! ✍️go.soos.aq/OAsurvey2026

🌊 Look who’s back! 👋 The #SOFLUX_webinar series is back - after the Northern Hemisphere summer break! Join us to explore the role of surface waves in Southern Ocean turbulence scaling, with Isabelle Giddy (SOCCO). 📅 8 October | 14:00 UTC 🔽soos.aq/events/soflux-webina…

🌊 ABS RWG announces Hilde Oliver as new Co-chair! With expertise spanning physical–biological interactions to numerical modelling, @hilde_at_sea brings valuable interdisciplinary expertise to group. 🔗 Read more: soos.aq/news/new-abs-co-chai…

🌊 New leadership for the Ross Sea RWG! We’re delighted to welcome Pasquale Castagno, Chengyan Liu, Xinliang Wang & Angela Garzia to the Leadership Team. 👉 soos.aq/news/new-ross-sea-le… Their expertise spans oceanography, ocean–ice interactions to fisheries—strengthening collaboration across the Ross Sea.

🌊 SOOS Update! Issue 35 is out! Explore five years of SOOS progress, the new SOOS 5-Year Report, SYNCHRONY, Antarctica InSync, new Working Group leaders, Polar Profiles, research, publications and more. 📖 Read it here: go.soos.aq/SOOSUpdateNo35

🦭 Animal-borne observations aren't just biological observations — they are an important part of the Southern Ocean observing system. 📖 doi.org/10.1071/MF25263 New study shows how data from instrumented animals complement Argo and ship-based observations, helping address key SOOS science priorities