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Abstract Submissions

Abstract submissions are now closed. Prior to the release of the online program in mid-October, you can view the list of sessions here.

Steps to Submit Your Abstract

1. Review Important Information

Read the following important policy and procedure documents.

Submission Policies

Program Timeline

2. Familiarize Yourself with the Session Formats

The program committee will decide which session format (oral, eLightning, or poster) to which your abstract may be assigned. It is not possible to request an oral presentation. Familiarize yourself with the various session formats that will occur at the meeting.

Session Formats

3. Decide How You Will Attend OSM26

When you submit your abstract, indicate whether you plan to attend the meeting in-person in Glasgow or online. Abstracts will be scheduled based on this selection. All presenters will have the opportunity to update their presentation location from in-person to online or vice versa by 28 January. No changes can be made after this date.

Virtual Presentation Options

4. Develop your Abstract Submission

Refer to the Submission Resources, Support, and FAQ sections for help.

Submission Resources

Submission FAQs

Submission Support

5. Pay Abstract Submission Fee

This processing fee is non-refundable. The abstract submission fee is separate from membership dues and the meeting registration fee.

Learn More About Submission Fees

6. Submit Abstract

Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent in mid-October. If you have any questions, please contact the OSM scientific program team.

Email OSM Scientific Program Team

7. Edit Abstract

Submitted abstracts may be edited as needed or transferred to another session until submissions close on 20 August (23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC). Do not withdraw a paid abstract submission to make edits.

Learn More About Refund Policies for Edits, Transfers, and Withdrawals

8. Publicize

The OSM Media Relations team welcomes recommendations of potentially newsworthy conference presentations. Please direct questions about media outreach, press attendance or press engagement at OSM26 to the OSM Media Relations Team.

Contact OSM Media Relations Team

9. Register

Although registration is not required to submit an abstract, the presenting author must register to attend OSM26 in person or online before the start of the meeting. The meeting registration fee is separate from the abstract submission fee.

Register for OSM26

Abstract Policies

Please familiarize yourself with the following submission policies before submitting your abstract:

There are no invited abstracts at OSM26.

Submission Fees

Regular Submission
$75 USD

Student Submission
$45 USD

Low Income/Lower-Middle Income Countries*
No fee

*Please see World Bank country classifications by income level table for more information.

The abstract submission fee is:

  • A required and non-refundable processing fee.
  • Separate from society membership dues and meeting registration fees.
  • Not based on approval of your abstract submission or attendance at the meeting.
  • Payable by credit card only; wire payments or purchase orders cannot be accommodated.
  • Applicable to each abstract submitted to the meeting. If you submit a second abstract to the meeting as outlined in the first author policy, you must pay the submission fee for the second abstract as well.

Edits, Transfers, and Withdrawals

  • Refunds will not be issued for abstracts that are withdrawn and resubmitted.
  • Payment will be required for any resubmissions.
  • Do not withdraw a paid abstract submission to make edits or submit a new abstract. You may edit a submitted abstract until the submission deadline.
  • For assistance with editing or transferring an abstract, contact the OSM Scientific Program Team.

Waivers for Community Leaders and Indigenous First Authors

OSM offers free registration and abstract waivers to scientists of Indigenous cultural heritage worldwide and non-scientist community leaders. This registration applies to both in-person and virtual attendance.

Last day to receive waived abstract fees: Monday, 11 August

Last day to receive waived registration cost: Friday, 14 November

Eligibility & Process:

  • Membership in an Indigenous community, which is recognized as a sovereign right established through self-determination and community acceptance (Anaya, 2004, cited in David-Chavez and Gavin, 2018).
  • OR a non-scientist representing their community’s interests in environmental, Earth, geoscience, or related fields. Community leaders who are not scientists can be Indigenous or non-Indigenous.

Apply for No-Cost Abstract Submission and Registration

Resources

OSM Authorship Policy and AI Tools

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are not permitted as authors as they cannot take responsibility for submitted works, but their use in writing or other aspects of the work should be transparent and described within the methods. As non-legal entities, AI tools cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent by disclosing details of use, including which AI tool was used and how it was used, in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper.

Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus responsible for any breach of publication ethics.

Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. For the purposes of AGU Publication ethics, this should include anything that can be found within a manuscript, data, figures, text, methods, and any other documented aspects of the manuscript may be plagiarized.

Most scientific journals use plagiarism detection software, such as iThenticate (used by AGU publications and ASLO publications) upon submission to help identify any duplication in submitted manuscripts.

Self-Plagiarism
Self-plagiarism, the act of reproducing your own work without significant changes for the current science and submission, is a violation of plagiarism standards. It potentially constitutes dual publication or prior publication. Including a few identical sentences from your own previous paper is not likely to be considered plagiarism; any material quoted verbatim should be placed within quotation marks with appropriate citation.

As with scholarly publications, authors of conference abstracts and presentations must label and appropriately cite all previously published results, including numerical information, figures, and images. Including significant portions of your own work—whether text, datasets or the majority of figures—without acknowledging the source is unacceptable and could also violate copyrights. Author reuse of figures from prior published work is often acceptable; however, please refer to the publisher’s reuse guidelines for more information.

Citing an Abstract

Authors (or their institutions or funders) retain copyright of their abstract.

Authors can acknowledge scientific teams or collaborators, data, and software within abstract text or using “Add Team” within author list.

Authors may submit abstracts for work that has been published in journals or presented at other scientific meetings. The work should be current and provide new data and results since any previous presentations.

If you wish to cite an abstract presented at OSM26, please cite as: Author(s) (2026), Title, Abstract (Final paper number, ex: AI14B-1234) presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026, 22-27 February 2026.

*Please note that AGU does not automatically publish AGU meeting abstracts in Google Scholar or any archive or assign a DOI. This may be done through the  ESS Open Archive and will assist in indexing. If you have any questions regarding the publishing of your abstract in Google Scholar, please see this article on why abstracts may not appear in Google Scholar and how to manually add them. We recommend that you create a personal profile in Google Scholar and manually add your abstract if you wish for it to be indexed there. 

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Submission Support

Submission Site Technical Support

For questions about the submission site or technical issues, complete the request form on the submission site, or call +1 401.334.0220, Monday to Friday between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EDT, or send an email.

Contact Support

Scientific Program Support

Email the OSM Scientific Program Team if you have a question on OSM's scientific program policies or general procedures.

Contact OSM Scientific Program Team

AGU Universal Account Support

If you have a question about your AGU universal user account, please contact AGU Member Services by email or call 800.966.2481 (toll-free in North America) or +1 202.462.6900.

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