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📣𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐒 𝐒𝐒𝐂!

Nominate yourself or someone you know for the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee (SSC).

Get involved—join a welcoming, supportive & engaged team helping shape the future of Southern Ocean observing.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 June
👉https://t.co/2iRSQVX3CE

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🌊 Recording now online!

How do humpback whales adapt to a changing Antarctic ecosystem?

🐋 Jenny Allen explores the rise of bubble-net feeding in the Antarctic Peninsula and what it reveals about ecosystem change.

▶️ https://t.co/zPDaQWaF9A

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🐋 New ways to eat: ecological influences on novel feeding in WAP humpback whales:

Join the WAPSA working group in a webinar featuring a talk by Jenny Allen (@univofstandrews ) on 7 May 2026 at 13:00 UTC.

Everyone welcome! Register here: https://t.co/PsVcPcdXr7

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💡How will ice shelf melting respond to a warming climate?

Join the 11th webinar of the quarterly PROS4SORP series to find out!

🗣️@kaitlinnaughten (@BAS_News).
📅July 1st
🕑13.00 UTC
Register here: https://t.co/SGBRBSZgBQ

Organised by the @WCRP_CLIVAR/@CliC_WCRP/@SCAR_Tweets Southern Ocean Regional Panel (SORP)

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🌊 #WorldOceanDay is here

to remind us the ocean doesn’t just surround us—it runs the systems we depend on.

Despite its outsized global role, the Southern Ocean remains under-sampled.

Today is a reminder that understanding depends on people working together to observe, connect & make sense of change

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📣 Call for nominations: WSDML RWG Leadership Team

Join a collaborative international team helping coordinate observations & research in the Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land region

Build connections, foster collaboration & help guide regional priorities

🗓️ DL: 23 June
👉 https://t.co/VeIp0hfrzL

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🌍 How do changing polar ecosystems shape the global carbon cycle?

SOOS is pleased to endorse @BIOPOLE_NERC , which investigates how polar biogeochemical processes influence carbon and nutrient cycling from the Southern Ocean to the Arctic 🌊🧪

More at https://t.co/FvCOpeZVHW

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🌊 The latest SOFLUX newsletter is out!

Inside:
📢 Upcoming webinar with Marcelo Santini
🎓 ECR spotlight: Jacqueline Behncke
📚 New papers on Southern Ocean CO₂ fluxes & bubble-mediated gas exchange
🚢 WHIRLS project field campaign updates

➡️ https://t.co/5fhCy0MQqR

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🦭 How do you find seals when they make up <1% of the Antarctic landscape?

A new paper from the SOOS CAPS Working Group presents a semi-automated method for detecting Antarctic ice seals in aerial imagery reducing manual review effort by ~94%

https://t.co/b35JHRjO9q

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🌊 SOOS Alumni in the Spotlight: @mauricio_mata

From helping build SOOS in its early years to advancing Antarctic oceanography through international collaboration, Mauricio reflects on the power of community in Southern Ocean science.

👉 https://t.co/0zSntoW0eg

SOOS is proud to count Mauricio amongst its alumni!

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@PaN_BES Long-term ecological research should be treated as a collective obligation — not simply a discretionary pursuit of scientific excellence

@Virginmor & @SoutulloAlvaro call scientists to move beyond a passive legitimising role toward a anticipatory role in planetary governance
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📈Antarctic science is increasingly data-rich—but insight-poor📉

Our knowledge is growing, but we understand less how to turn that knowledge into coordinated action

📰https://t.co/peKfoofEST

A recent paper argues for a shift from fragmentated data collection toward coordinated observing systems supporting policy & long-term governance
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Is Antarctic science really politically neutral?

The publication in @PaN_BES suggests that what gets studied —where, and by whom — is also shaped by funding structures, station locations, national priorities

—Even if science is often presented as purely objective.
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🎉 The WSDML working group welcomes Magkena Szemak (@magszemak) as its new APECS ECR Representative!

Magkena is using Antarctic sediment cores & diatoms to reconstruct past ice-sheet retreat, sea ice, and Southern Ocean climate variability.

Meet Magkena: https://t.co/1eYATMhpvG

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🌏 This week, SOOS joined discussions at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in Japan.

From sustained observations to international coordination, Southern Ocean science depends on strong global collaboration.

Being part of conversations like these helps ensure the observing community remains connected to the priorities, partnerships & long-term coordination needed to support Antarctic research and stewardship.

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Explore how 🗻 land, 🌊 ocean & 💭 atmosphere connect in a rapidly changing region at our next #SOFLUX_webinar!

“Land and Sea-Air Interactions in the Bransfield Strait during the 2024/2025 Austral Summer”
by Marcelo Santini (@inpe_mcti)

📅 9 June
https://t.co/wymQ3iv46q

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🌊 Bring the Southern Ocean community to you - 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗢𝗢𝗦 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳!

📅 DL 31 July
🔗 https://t.co/tUsUyDTp9M

Call for bids to host our flagship international Southern Ocean meeting (400–500 participants) bringing together science, policy & industry

Global visibility for your institute!

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📣 Antarctic Research Funding Opportunity

The Blue Nature Alliance is seeking proposals to support the 2027 review of the Ross Sea Region MPA by CCAMLR.

💰 Up to USD$100k/proposal
📅 Deadline: 1 June 2026
➡️ https://t.co/2KBsxHeMXo

Scientific outputs must help assess the effectiveness of the Ross Sea MPA