With an outstanding support of the community, we collated a list of sessions that are of potential interest to the JETZON community - many of them co-organised by JETZON colleagues. 

Please consider submitting an abstract and showcasing your great twilight zone research, and feel free to get in touch with the organisers if you have any questions.

 

Note that the abstract submission deadline is 20 August 2025, 23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC.

 

For further information, please visit the official website at: https://agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/prelim.cgi/Home/0

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- Carbon Management (CM)

 

CM005 - "Interdisciplinary Approaches and Scalable Pathways for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Integrating Science, Society, and Implementation"

Chairs: Phil Renforth (Heriot-Watt University), Sandy Avrutin (GEOMAR), M. Grace Andrews (Hourglass Climate), Chelsey Adrianne Baker (National Oceanography Center), Rachel Millar (Heriot-Watt University)

 

 

- Climate and Ocean Change (CC)

 

CC006 - "Climate Change in the Deep Sea: Impacts, Interventions, and Cumulative Stressors"

Chairs: Natalya Gallo (Norwegian Research Centre / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen), Rachel Jeffreys (University of Liverpool), Narissa Bax (University of Tasmania / Pinngortitaleriffik, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources), Kate Fraser (Scottish Association for Marine Science)

 

CC014 - "Marine Environment Reanalyses and Four-Dimensional Data Driven Models: Progress and Applications"

Chairs: Romain Bourdalle-Badie (Mercator Ocean), Tobias Ehmen (University of Exeter), Gael Forget (MIT), Raphaëlle Sauzède (Sorbonne Université), Mary Margaret Stoll (University of Washington)

 

 

- Deep Sea Exploration (DS)

 

DS002 - "Advancing Knowledge of the Atlantic Deep Sea: Exploring Biodiversity, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Function in Data-Poor Regions"

Chairs: Louise Allcock (University of Galway), Ana Belen Yanez (Suarez Memorial University), Kerry Howell (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Sinothando Shibe (South African National Parks)

 

DS004 - "Seamounts at the Nexus of Ocean Science"

Chairs: Anna Roik (KAUST), Lissette Victorero (University of Southampton), Malcolm Clark (NIWA), Martin Visbeck (KAUST)

 

DS005 - "Shining Light on the Dark Pelagic: Mesopelagic and Bathypelagic Community and Processes"

Chairs: Paola G. Batta-Lona (University of Connecticut), Jennifer M Questel (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Leocadio Blanco-Bercial (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences / Arizona State University)

 

 

- Education, Public Engagement, and Arts (ED)

 

ED011 - "Making the invisible visible: Communicating and advancing capacity of overlooked and undervalued ocean science"

Chairs: Olivia S Pereira (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), Michelle Guraieb (Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative / Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Kaitlyn Lowder (The Ocean Foundation), Carla Berghoff (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero), Fatawo Abdul Abubakar (University of Ghana)

 

 

- High Latitude Environments (HE)

 

Title: HE010 - "Pelagic ecosystems and nutrient cycles in a changing Southern Ocean"

Chairs: Emma Cavan (Imperial College London),Sarat Chandra Tripathy (National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research), Simeon Hill (British Antarctic Survey), Clara Manno (British Antarctic Survey), Cordelia Roberts (Imperial College London)

 

 

- Human-Ocean Connections (HC)

 

HC005 - "Environmental impacts of deep-sea mining"

Chairs: Yang Xiang (Louisiana State University), Katlin Bowman Adamczyk (United States Geological Survey), Jessica N Fitzsimmons (Texas A&M University), Shelby Gunnells (Texas A&M University), Cara James (University of British Columbia)

 

HC011 - "Plastic & Plastic-Associated Contaminants in the Water Column"

Chairs: Karin Kvale (Aotearoa Blue Ocean Research), Tracy J Mincer (Florida Atlantic University), Shiye Zhao (JAMSTEC), Camille Richon (Sorbonne Université)

 

HC015 - "The Sources, Transport, and Fate of Plastic Pollution in the Marine Environment"

Chairs: Xia Zhu Memorial (University of Newfoundland), Sarah-Jeanne Royer (The Ocean Cleanup), Kara L Lavender (Law Sea Education Association), Haodong Xu (University of Tokyo)

 

 

- Marine Ecology and Biodiversity (ME)

 

ME009 - "Marine Fungi and the Microbial Dark Matter: Hidden Catalysts of Carbon and Climate"

Chairs: Federico Baltar (Shanghai Ocean University),Eva Breyer (Shanghai Ocean University)

 

ME013 - "The Deep-Pelagic Realm as a Nexus for Ecological Connectivity"

Chairs: Rosanna Milligan (Nova Southeastern University), Tracey Sutton (Nova Southeastern University)

 

 

- Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OB)

 

OB001 - "Advances in observing and modelling the biological carbon pump"

Chairs: Clara R. Vives (JAMSTEC), Margaret Estapa (University of Maine), Guillaume Liniger (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), Sandy Jane Thomalla (CSIR), Stephanie Henson (National Oceanography Centre), Guillaume Liniger (University of Tasmania)

 

OB015 - "Marine life and Carbon cycling in a changing ocean: Integrating observations, AI, and models"

Chairs: MarieFanny Racault (University of East Anglia), Lionel Guidi (Sorbonne Université), Stephanie Henson (National Oceanography Centre), Maria Villa-Alfageme (Universidad de Sevilla), Sarah Cryer (Heriot-Watt University)

 

OB024 - "Quantifying Marine Biological Production Across Scales and Platforms"

Chairs: Marin Cornec (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / University of Washington), Shubha Sathyendranath (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Bror Jönsson (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Andrea J Fassbender (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), Marija Bačeković Koloper (University of Split)

 

OB025 - "Respiration in the Mesopelagic Ocean: Reconciling ecological, biogeochemical and model estimates"

Chairs: Carol Robinson (University of East Anglia), Iris Kriest (GEOMAR), Isabel Seguro (University of East Anglia), Chie Amano (University of Vienna)

 

OB029 - "The Open Ocean Carbonate Pump: From Alkalinity to Ecology (and Back Again)"

Chairs: Alex J Poulton (Heriot-Watt University), Patrizia Ziveri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Griet Neukermans (Ghent University), Ben Cala (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)

 

 

- Ocean Technology and Observatories (OT)

 

OT016 - "Plankton and particle imaging: moving beyond classification towards ecosystem understanding"

Chairs: Sophie Pitois (Centre of Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), Elaine Fileman (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Dick van Oevelen (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), Cornelia Jaspers (Technical University of Denmark), Cecilia Mary Liszka (British Antarctic Survey)

 

 

- Physical-Biological Interactions (PI)

 

PI006 - "Light in the ocean: From fundamental driver to emerging change - drivers, impacts and monitoring changing marine lightscapes"

Chairs: Anders Opdal (University of Bergen), Bronwyn E Cahill (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research), Tom J. Langbehn (University of Bergen), Laura Hobbs (Scottish Association for Marine Science), Helena Frazao (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research)

 

PI007 - "Modelling Biophysical Interactions in the Polar Oceans: Ocean-Sea Ice Dynamics, Climate Sensitivity, and Ecosystem Response"

Chairs: Emma Frances Young (British Antarctic Survey), Sally E Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey), Chelsey Adrianne Baker (National Oceanography Center), Erik Behrens (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), Zephyr Sylvester (University of Colorado at Boulder)

 

 

- Town Hall Meetings


 

"Deep-Ocean Science as the Foundation for Global Ocean Sustainable Use" 

Organised by Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)

Primary contact: Maria Baker (University of Southampton)

Presenters: Lisa A Levin (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Kirsty McQuaid (Nelson Mandela University), Pei-Yuan Qian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Fengping Wang (Shanghai JiaoTong University), Kerry Howell (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Adrian Martin (National Oceanography Centre), Eva Zoe Ramirez-Llodra (Norwegian Institute for Water Research), Heidi Gartner (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)