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The biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by AGU, ASLO, and TOS will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.
Abstract submissions are now open and close 11 September 2019, 11:59 PM EDT. In early November 2019, abstract acceptance notices will be emailed, and the final scientific program will be available online. Membership in AGU, TOS, or ASLO is not required in order to submit an abstract, however, you do need to create an online account with AGU.
The deadline for submitting Town Halls, workshops, committee meetings, and social events is 18 September, 11:59 EDT.
Submit a Town Hall.
Request a workshop or other event.
We welcome abstract submissions for the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. Submit your abstract by the 11 September deadline!
Your abstract title should be limited to 300 characters, and the abstract text should be limited to 2000 characters including spacing, punctuation, and LaTeX commands. Abstracts must focus on scientific results or their application. The program committee may decline to consider abstracts with another focus.
Following the abstract deadline, submitted abstracts may be moved to another appropriate session. Final decisions regarding placement of individual abstracts and sessions rests with the program committee.
Fees An abstract submission fee of $75 (USD) will be charged for each regular submission ($45 USD for each student submission). Credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express) is the only method of payment accepted for abstract fees.
To submit more than one first author abstract, you may:
The submitting author will automatically be listed as the first and presenting author. The first author cannot be modified, though the first author may designate a co-author to present the abstract. All presenting authors must register for the meeting.
The abstract submitter is responsible for ensuring that all co-authors have agreed to be listed on the abstract.
Oral sessions are allocated by the program committee based on the total number of submissions received to a session and oral presentations are assigned by the session chairs. There is typically only enough room to present 40 percent of oral abstracts received. If preferred, you may request a poster presentation; these requests will be honored. All invited presentations will be posters.
If you submit an abstract, you are obligated to give the presentation as assigned. Your submission also grants the society organizers permission to publish the abstract in the meeting program.
Once assigned by the program committee and scheduled by the session chair, the date and time of the presentation will not be changed; presenters are advised not to arrange travel until acceptance notifications are issued in early November with assigned session dates and times. The presentations may be scheduled anytime during sessions from Monday, 16 February through Friday, 21 February 2020.
An eLightning session is a three-minute oral presentation, paired with a digital interactive poster, that creates an engaging experience for both presenters and attendees, providing significant additional value, including the ability to incorporate videos and audio recordings and to show complex data sets. View the list of eLightning sessions for the Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Invited poster authors must submit their abstracts directly via a link in the invitation they receive from the session chair. If the abstract is not submitted through this formal invitation, the abstract will not have an invited status listing. Accepting this invitation and submitting an invited abstract acknowledges that the author will present a poster for that abstract.
An author may accept and submit only one invited poster abstract, but may also submit a second contributed abstract to the session of their choice.
Session chairs are not allowed to present an invited poster in a session they are chairing, but may submit a contributed abstract to their session.
Invited poster authors do not receive waived or discounted abstract fees, registration fees, or travel reimbursement.
Submission Deadline: 18 September, 11:59 p.m. ET Groups may request meeting space for Town Halls, workshops, committee meetings, social events, or other small group meetings and auxiliary functions to be held in conjunction with the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. Town Halls must take place Monday through Thursday during lunch or in the evenings. Workshops, committee meetings, social events and auxiliary functions must take place Sunday or Monday through Friday during lunch or in the evenings. Meeting space is not available during the scientific program. The group requesting the meeting space is responsible for all costs associated with the function, including audiovisual, catering, and any other logistical requirements.
Let your voice be heard! Town Halls provide a valuable opportunity for government agencies, academic programs, special projects, and other focused interest groups to gather input from the broader marine sciences community that gathers at the Ocean Sciences Meeting. Town Halls are one hour in length and open to all meeting participants.
Notification letters will be distributed via email in early November.
The Ocean Sciences Meeting Program Committee will review and assess the proposals and finalize the schedule for all approved Town Halls.
Looking to hold a workshop, committee meeting, small group meeting, or social event during the Ocean Sciences Meeting?
Submit an event request by 18 September and we will review your request and available meeting space.
The submission fee for workshops, committee meetings, small group meetings and events is $350 if submitted by 18 September. Requests made after 18 September will pay a $450 submission fee.
Space is not available for groups that expect to exceed 50 attendees during the scientific sessions held 17-21 February during the times listed:
Marjy Friedrichs, VIMSAGU Co-Chair Alessandra Conversi, Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheASLO Co-Chair Kristen Buck, University of South FloridaTOS Co-Chair Allison Penko, U.S. Naval Research LaboratoryAGU Vice Chair Bob Chen, University of Massachusetts BostonASLO Vice Chair Grace Chang, Integral Consulting, Inc.TOS Vice Chair Christopher Hayes, University of Southern MississippiAGU Early Career Rep Nichole Price, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean SciencesASLO Early Career Rep Alice Marzocchi, National Oceanography CentreTOS Early Career Rep Hadley McIntosh, University of MarylandAGU Student Rep Ngozi Oguguah, Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine ResearchASLO Student Rep Camille Pagniello, University of California, San DiegoTOS Student Rep
Jim EdsonWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ruoying HeNorth Carolina State University
Kristen BuckUniversity of South Florida Chris HayesUniversity of Southern Mississippi
Allison PenkoU.S. Naval Research Laboratory Grace ChangIntegral Consulting Nina StarkVirginia Tech Hadley McIntosh University of Maryland
Bob ChenUniversity of Massachusetts Ngozi Oguguah Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research
Camille Pagniello University of California San Diego Ngozi Oguguah Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research
Alice MarzocchiNational Oceanography Centre Hadley McIntoshUniversity of Maryland Jim EdsonWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bob ChenUniversity of Massachusetts Grace ChangIntegral Consulting Camille PagnielloUniversity of California San Diego
Nicole PriceBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Camille PagnielloUniversity of California San Diego Colleen MouwUniversity of Rhode Island
Nina StarkVirginia Tech Allison PenkoU.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Ann BucklinUniversity of Connecticut Kay BidleRutgers University
Kristen BuckUniversity of South Florida Nichole PriceBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Colleen MouwUniversity of Rhode Island Ann BucklinUniversity of Connecticut Kristen BuckUniversity of South Florida Marjy FriedrichsVirginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Marjy FriedrichsVirginia Institute of Marine Sciences Chris HayesUniversity of Southern Mississippi
Dick CroutU.S. Naval Research Laboratory Nina StarkVirginia Tech
Ruoying HeNorth Carolina State University Allison PenkoU.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Chris HayesUniversity of Southern Mississippi Alessandra ConversiConsiglio Nazionale delle Richerche Istituto di Scienze Marine Alice MarzocchiNational Oceanography Centre
Kay BidleRutgers University Marjy FriedrichsVirginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Mete UzNational Science Foundation Dick CroutU.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Dick CroutU.S. Naval Research Laboratory Mete UzNational Science Foundation
Alessandra ConversiConsiglio Nazionale delle Richerche Istituto di Scienze Marine Ngozi OguguahNigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research
CP021 - Coastal Research Related To Hurricane Dorian And The 2019 Hurricane Season
Hurricane Dorian, which was the first major hurricane (and fourth named storm) of the 2019 Atlantic storm season, had a major impact throughout the Bahamas and along the East Coast. It made landfall in the Abaco islands as a Category 5 on 1 September 2019 with maximum sustained winds of 295 km/hr and pressure of 911 mb, tying for the highest winds at landfall for an Atlantic hurricane. In the Bahamas, catastrophic damage from winds, rain, and storm surge resulted in more than 50 deaths and more than 1300 people may be missing. The hurricane skated along the East Coast leading to evacuation orders throughout Florida and the Carolinas. Severe flooding and breaches occurred on the barrier islands of North Carolina between Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout as the storm made landfall as a Category 1 on 6 September 2019. Dorian even battered the coast of Nova Scotia with hurricane force winds as an extratropical cyclone on 8 September. This session seeks contributions focusing on the coastal impact and processes associated with Dorian and other storms from the 2019 hurricane season, including oceanographic, atmospheric, geomorphologic, hydrologic, ecologic, and climatic factors; data collection methods and assimilation techniques; remote sensing; impacts on the coastal physical environment and human health; and policy implications. Submissions are welcomed that may be observational or modeling in nature.
This session has closed.