OA Week 2024 - Southern Ocean Hub launch

GOA-ON/SOOS Ocean Acidification Southern Ocean Regional Hub

The Southern Ocean ranks amongst the most vulnerable of all oceanographic regions to acidification. While significant effort in the collection of data and observations has been made at a national level across the globe, a comprehensive and integrated circumpolar understanding of the changes occurring, and responses of organisms to these changes, is lacking. This workshop will launch the newly formed Southern Ocean collaborative hub on ocean acidification (OA). This hub is uniquely positioned at the nexus of SOOS and GOA-ON, providing a novel platform for the coordination of transdisciplinary research activities, tapping into the diverse expertise across the Southern Ocean OA research community. In this way we hope to develop and deliver research on OA, its drivers, and biological responses, from local to regional scales. The hub will also be a conduit for communicating research outcomes and provide a mechanism to identify and prioritise emerging observational and research needs. As an inaugural activity for the hub, this round table session presents an opportunity to connect, table our thoughts and ideas, and consolidate key research areas and specific aims we, as an international community, could start to target.

This session is part of the Australian Antarctic Research Conference, taking place in Hobart, Tasmania, from 19. - 22. November 2024.