The SOLAS seminar series is a quarterly event, which is structured around SOLAS relevant topics covered by the SOLAS 2015-2025 Science Plan and beyond, with the aims of fostering discussions on cutting edge scientific questions, providing researchers at all career stages with the opportunity to interact and building SOLAS community across the globe.
The 11th seminar of the series will focus on “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape”. The seminar is hosted by Aotearoa Blue Ocean Research & Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and will be held online from 15:00-16:00 UTC+2 on 14 October 2025.
Registration is open and free of charge. More information on SOLAS website here.
Speakers:
- How meltwater shapes under-ice pCO₂ in the Arctic: from melt onset to melt pond drainage – Josefa Verdugo (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Constraining polar air-sea gas exchange with in situ flux observations – John Prytherch (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Conveners:
- Karin Kvale (Aotearoa Blue Ocean Research, New Zealand)
- Damian L. Arévalo-Martínez (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Germany)