Santa Marta, Colombia
Tentative Schedule of Events
28 October 2025. Closed SCOR Executive Committee meeting (session 1). Open Symposium
29 October 2025. SCOR Annual Meeting Day 1: Opening, Reports from the Secretariat (Tab 1), discussion of new WG proposals (Tab 2.1)
30 October 2025. SCOR Annual Meeting Day 2: Reports/updates from current SCOR Working Groups (Tab 2.2) and research projects (Tabs 4-5)
31 October 2025. SCOR Annual Meeting Day 3: Reports/updates from partners organizations, closing of meeting (Tab 3, Tabs 6-7). Closed SCOR Executive Committee meeting (session 2)
Note: Dates of individual presentation are subject to the availability and time zone of remote presenters.
Registration and Logistics
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Review of Working Group Proposals
Fourteen working group proposals were submitted for consideration for the 2025 SCOR Call for proposals. The proposals are linked below in Tab 2.1.
The call for review and the review template in editable format can be found here. Reviews should be submitted to the SCOR Secretariat (secretariat@scor-int.org) by 31 August 2025.
Background Information and Content for Meeting
Documents will be added as they are made available
Tab 0. Agenda and Participants List
0.1. Agenda [Block and Annotated Agenda]
Tab 1 – Opening topics
1.1. In Memoriam – Obituary for scientists involved with SCOR [Obituaries][Slides]
1.2. Report of the SCOR President [Report][Presentation]
1.3. Report of SCOR Executive Director [Report][Slides]
1.4. SCOR compiled capacity development activities (SCOR Visiting Scholars, POGO-SCOR Fellowships, NSF travel support for developing countries, and others) [Report][Slides]
1.5. Report of the 2025 ad hoc Finance Committee
Tab 2 – Working Groups
Tab 2.1. New Working Group proposals
2.1.1. Developing an Integrated System and Platform for Applying Low cost Technological and Digital Tools for Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Data on Essential Oceanographic and Biodiversity Variables in African Seas (AfriTechOceanMonitor) [Proposal]
2.1.2. Advancing tools in zooplankton trait-based research with FAIR data, methods, and modelling approaches (AtoZTraits) [Proposal]
2.1.3. Bridging nitrogen fixation observations to models (BRAVO) [Proposal]
2.1.4. Co-developing ocean biodiversity discovery infrastructure: A pathway to empower local expertise in megadiverse regions (CoDisco) [Proposal]
2.1.5. Coastal Ocean Resources and Delta Sustainability (CORDS) [Proposal]
2.1.6. Coordinated Science and Monitoring of Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (CoSMo-EBUS) [Proposal]
2.1.7. EasyXBT, making eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) data FAIR (EasyXBT) [Proposal]
2.1.8. Extreme Events, Interconnexions and Consequences for society (EXIT) [Proposal]
2.1.9. Gaining Higher certainty in Generating emission and removal factors in Coastal Wetlands (GHG-CW) [Proposal]
2.1.10. Linking Microbial Biodiversity and Biogeochemical Cycles to Understand Ocean Ecosystem Resilience (MICRO-GOER) [Proposal]
2.1.11. Observational Requirements in the Context of AI prediction systems for Sea ice (ORCAS) [Proposal]
2.1.12. Quantification and Optimization of Ocean Observing System under Future Uncertainties to Improve Climate Forecasts (QOOSFUN) [Proposal]
2.1.13. Small Plastics in the Ocean’s Interior: coherent Analysis and Synthesis for better Scrutiny (SPASS) [Proposal]
2.1.14. SUBsurface Marine HeatWaves Working Group (SubMHW-WG) [Proposal]
Tab 2.2. Working Groups Reports
WG 158 Coordinated Global Research Assessment of Seagrass System (C-GRASS) [Report]
WG 160 Analysing ocean turbulence observations to quantify mixing (ATOMIX) [Report][Slides]
WG 161 Respiration in the Mesopelagic Ocean (ReMO): Reconciling ecological, biogeochemical and model estimates [Report]
WG 163 Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (CIce2Clouds) [Report]
WG 164 CoNCENSUS: Advancing standardisation of COastal and Nearshore demersal fish visual CENSUS techniques [Report]
WG 165 Mixotrophy in the Oceans – Novel Experimental designs and Tools for a new trophic paradigm (MixONET) [Report]
WG 166 Developing resources for the study of Methylated Sulfur compound cycling PROcesses in the ocean (DMS-PRO) [Report]
WG 167 Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition (RUSTED) [Report]
WG 168 Coordinating the Development of Gridded Four-Dimensional Data Products from Biogeochemical-Argo Observations (4D-BGC) [Report]
WG 169 Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUBS) [Report]
WG 170 Physiology and Rates in Microbial Oceanography (PRIMO) [Report]
WG 171 Towards best practices for Measuring and Archiving Stable Isotopes in Seawater (MASIS) [Report]
WG 172 Oceanic Salt Intrusion into Tidal Freshwater Rivers (SALTWATER) [Report]
Tab 3 – Affiliated organizations reports
3.1. IABO – International Association for Biological Oceanography [Report]
3.2. IAPSO – International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans [Report] [Slides]
3.3. IAMAS – International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences [Report][Slides]
Tab 4 – Large-Scale Ocean Research Projects reports
4.1. GEOTRACES – Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes [Report] [Annex – Regional reports][Slides]
4.2. SOLAS – Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study [Report][Slides]
4.3. IMBeR – Integrated Marine Biosphere Research [Report][Slides]
4.4. IQOE – International Quiet Ocean Experiment [Report] [Slides]
4.5. IIOE-2 – International Indian Ocean Expedition 2 [Report] [Slides]
Tab 5 – Infrastructural Projects reports
5.1. SOOS – Southern Ocean Observing System [Report][Performance Report][Slides]
5.2. IOCCP – International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project [Report][Slides]
5.3. COBS – Changing Ocean Biological Systems [Report][Slides]
5.4. GlobalHAB – Global Harmful Algal Blooms [Report][Slides]
5.5. JCS – Joint Committee on Seawater (IAPWS/SCOR/IAPSO) [Report][Slides]
Tab 6 – Affiliated projects
Affiliated projects reports
6.1. IOCCG – International Ocean Colour Co-ordinating Group [Report][Slides]
Tab 7 – Intergovernmental and partner Organizations
Intergovernmental organizations reports
7.1. IOC – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission [Report]
7.2. PICES – North Pacific Marine Science Organization [Report]
7.3. GESAMP WG 38– The atmospheric input of chemicals to the oceans [Report]
Partner organizations reports
7.4. POGO – Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean [Report][Slides]
7.5. ISC – International Science Council [ISC Annual Report]
7.6. SCAR – Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research [Slides]
7.7. Future Earth and the Ocean Knowledge Action Network [Report]
7.8. WCRP – World Climate Research Programme / CLIVAR [Report]
Tab 8 – Capacity-Development Activities
POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme [Report]
Research Discovery Camp – RGNO at University of Namibia [Report]