The URI GSO community will present its research at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) in Glasglow, Scotland during the week of February 22-27, 2026. #OSM26, the flagship conference for the ocean sciences and the larger ocean-connected community, convenes every two years to connect scientists from around the world, allow them to share their findings, and advance the impact of science.
The table (below) highlights the presence GSO will have at OSM.
Monday, February 23
| Time | Location | Code | Title | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Hall 3, Coral Cove | CM11A-01 | Efficiency of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in a Large Coastal Plain Estuary | Hongjie Wang |
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Alsh | ED11A | Science That Sticks: Storytelling Through Art, Film, and New Media I Oral | Gabrielle Armin |
| 8:40 – 8:50 | Hall 3, Coral Cove | CM11A-02 | Evaluating the Role of Dissolved Organic Matter Exudation and Grazing in the mCDR Potential of a Kelp Farm using a Vertical Mixing and Biogeochemistry Model – A Case Study for Point Judith, Rhode Island | Hongjie Wang |
| 9:03 – 9:06 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 1 | PS11C-11 | Enhanced Lagrangian transport for broad-banded surface gravity waves | Nick Pizzo |
| 9:40 – 9:50 | Hall 1 | AI11A-08 | The State of the Sea Surface and Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones | Isaac Ginis |
| 10:45 – 10:55 | Hall 3, Kelp Forest | PS12B-02 | Wave momentum myths on rotating and non-rotating surfaces | Nick Pizzo |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Forth | HE12A-05 | Western Arctic Zooplankton from Shelf to Pole in Early Fall 2022: Distributions, Abundances, and Key Biological Components | Robert Campbell, Celia Gelfman |
| 11:20 – 11:30 | M1 | ME12A-06 | Synthesizing complementary time series to reveal new patterns in Gulf of Maine phytoplankton and their ecosystem drivers | Catherine Nowakowski, Kelton McMahon |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Hall 3, The Abyss | TH33D | Building Bridges: Strengthening Connections and Opportunities Through MPOWIR | Colleen Mouw |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | M1 | PS12B-04 | Ventilation of the deep North Atlantic by down-front winds | Una Miller, Jaime Palter |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | M1 | PS13B-06 | Estimating submesoscale-driven particulate organic carbon flux from remote sensing at a dynamic upwelling front | Sarah Lang, Melissa Omand |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Lemond Auditorium | CC13A-08 | Hydrothermal Systems Regulate the Formation and Fate of Black Carbon that Persists in the Deep Ocean | Sam Katz |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Insights into particle flux attenuation using in-situ imaging (SnoCam+) and sediment traps | Melissa Omand |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Evaluating Acidotropic Dyes for Detecting Mixotrophy in Protists: Insights From Cultures and Field Communities | Erica Ewton, Susanne Menden-Deuer |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Cellular Mechanisms Explain Differences in Distribution of Coastal Chlorophyll between Large-scale Oscillation Events | Gabrielle Armin, Colleen Mouw |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Impacts of upper ocean sound speed structure on acoustic propagation in the high Arctic | Luis Pomales Velázquez |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Sediment Resuspension Dynamics and Lake Erie Water Quality Monitoring: A Multi-Decade Satellite Perspective | Audrey Ciochetto |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Uncrewed Surface Vessel Harvests Velocity Profiles from Deep-Sea Moorings in Strong Currents | Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts, Maureen Kennelly |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Science That Sticks: Storytelling Through Art, Film, and New Media II Poster | Gabrielle Armin |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Warming and salinity changes of the upper ocean Caribbean through-flow since 1960 | Jaime Palter |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Submarine Phreatomagmatic Volcanism and Landslides in American Samoa | Zachary Levitan |
Wednesday, February 25
| Time | Location | Code | Title | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Hall 3, Tidal Pool | AI31A-01 | Evolution of turbulent fluxes in the wind- and wave-driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer from laboratory experiments | Nick Pizzo, Andrew Goering |
| 8:30 – 8:33 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 2 | CB31A-01 | Characterization of manganese speciation and manganese-associated organic ligands in the seasonally hypoxic Gulf of Mexico | Rebecca Robinson, Veronique Oldham, Roger Patrick Kelly |
| 8:32 – 8:42 | Carron | DS31A-01 | The case for more accessible technology in deep-sea research | Brennan Phillips |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Hall 3, The Abyss | TH33D | Building Bridges: Strengthening Connections and Opportunities Through MPOWIR | Colleen Mouw |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Hall 3, The Abyss | CM33A-01 | Assessing Phytoplankton Growth Across Size Classes Under Alkalinity Enhancement in the Gulf of Maine | Frankie Lopez, Jacqueline Rosa, Suanne Menden-Deuer |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Hall 3, The Abyss | CM33A-07 | The Potential for Estuarine Alkalinity Enhancement via Nearshore Crushed Limestone Application is Concealed by Natural Variability in the Marine Carbonate System | Fiona Teevan-Kamhawi, Hongjie Wang, Jaime Palter, Stephanie Anderson, Shelby Gibson, Jason Grear, Roger Patrick Kelly, Robert Pockalny, Rebecca Robinson |
| 15:20 – 15:30 | M1 | ME33A-09 | Corals change structural lipid profiles in response to an extreme marine heat wave in the central Red Sea in 2024 | Lauren Zane, Connor Love, Kelton McMahon |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Two Decades of Global SST Gradient Fields: Temporal Evolution of Fine-Scale Structure | Peter Cornillon |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Ocean Exploration benefits for seabed mineral decision-making in the Pacific | Adam Soule |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Cellular and Biochemical Evidence of Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure and Energy Limitation in the Subseafloor of the Puerto Rico Trench | Corrina Breusing, Steven D’Hondt |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | High-Precision Argon Isotope Measurements Differentiate Glacial Meltwater from Rapid Cooling in the Amundsen Sea | Mollie Passacantando, Brice Loose |
Thursday, February 26
| Time | Location | Code | Title | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 8:41 | Hall 3, Coral Cove | OB41C-01 | The central role of the Labrador Sea in the ventilation of the deep North Atlantic | Jamie Palter, Una Miller |
| 9:05 – 9:15 | Carron | OT41B-04 | Biodiversity Exploration of Vailulu’u, an Underwater Volcano in American Samoan Waters, with Environmental DNA | Chris Roman |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 1 | OB42D | Quantifying and Linking ‘Omics, Physiology, and Models in Marine Microbiology I eLightning | Keisuke Inomura |
| 10:36 – 10:39 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 1 | OB42D-03 | Niche participation of Prochlorococcus ecotypes driven by distinct macromolecular allocations | Keisuke Inomura, Meng Gao, Gabrielle Armin |
| 10:40 – 10:50 | Lomond Auditorium | AI42A-02 | Salt Marshes as Archives of Wildfire History: Insights from Black Carbon Deposition in Oregon | Erin Peck |
| 10:45 – 10:55 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 1 | OB42D-05 | Linking Phytoplankton Physiology to Ocean Biogeochemistry via Macromolecular Resource Allocation Modeling | Megan Sullivan, Keisuke Inomura |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Hall 3, Blue Horizon | ED42A-03 | Useful Arctic Knowledge: Training, Collaboration and Innovation in Ocean Observing | Lora Van Uffelen |
| 10:57 – 11:00 | Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 1 | OB42D-10 | Resolving the Elemental Stoichiometry and Macromolecular Allocation of Phytoplankton in a Coastal Ocean Simulation | Margaret Bernish, Keisuke Inomura, Christopher Kincaid and Mingxi Zho |
| 11:10 – 11:20 | Hall 3, Blue Horizon | ED42A-05 | Mentorship: A Reciprocal Relationship for Career Resiliency | Sarah Clem, Colleen Mouw |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Alsh | N/A | Membership Meeting of The Oceanography Society | Paula Bontempi |
| 14:20 – 14:30 | Lomond Auditorium | PI43A-03 | Ecological responses of planktonic communities to submesoscale ocean eddy stirring and mixing | Melissa Omand |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Hall 3, Tidal Pool | AI43A-04 | Airborne observations of wave-current interactions at submesoscale features | Nick Pizzo |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Lomond Auditorium | PI43A-08 | Submesoscale Eddy Dispersion Affects Community Composition and Biogeochemistry Beyond the Coastal Upwelling Zone | Sarah Lang, Melissa Omand |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | The Science of Current and Emerging Blue Carbon Ecosystems I Poster | Erin Peck |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | ENSO’s imprint on the Southern Ocean: Wind waves drive poleward heat flux | Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts, Ahyoung Ku |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Pathways to Water-Mass Transformation in the Cape Basin: Spatial Patterns and Mixing Rates | Lindsay Grose, Kathy Donohue, Chris Roman |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Ocean acidification differentially modulates Fe-related gene expression in diatom communities from distinct oceanic regimes: evidence from metatranscriptomics | Bethany Jenkins |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Enhanced Detection of Slow Slip Events by Improved Estimates of Pressure Using Measured Currents | Ahyoung Ku, Randy Watts, Meng (Matt) Wei, |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Understanding the Recent Cooling in the Gulf of Maine | Jamie Palter |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Impact of wind stress formulation on Gulf Stream pathway and variability | Tom Rossby, Kathy Donohue |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Database of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: An Inaugural Interactive Analysis of Methods and Purposes | Jamie Palter |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Eddy heat flux across the southernmost Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southeast Indian Ridge hot spot | Jeong-Yeob Chae, Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | Metabolic basis of silicon stress and diversity in nutrient physiology of diatoms following the North Atlantic spring bloom | Katie Roche, Bethany Jenkins |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Hall 4 | Poster | A quantitative framework for interpreting whitecap foam to parameterise air-sea exchange processes | Andrew Smith |
Friday, February 27
| Time | Location | Code | Title | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Alsh | ED51A | Adventures, Challenges, and Benefits of Conducting International Collaborative Research I Oral | Susanne Menden-Deuer |
| 8:50 – 8:55 | Alsh | ED51A-04 | Navigating international research as an early career scientist: planning, executing, and enjoying the journey | Connor Love |
| 9:22 – 9:32 | Hall 3, Current Exchange | ME51B-06 | Fifty Years of Shark Diets Reveal Divergent Trophic Responses to Shifting Prey Fields in a Warming Northwest Atlantic Ocean | Alex Rubin, Reese kober, Kris Lewis, Kelton McMahon |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Hall 3, Tidal Pool | CM52A | The Science of Current and Emerging Blue Carbon Ecosystems II Oral | Erin Peck |
| 10:55 – 11:05 | Hall 3, The Sound | DO52A-03 | A novel method to constrain Loop Current forecasts through assimilation of APEX float profiles and deep velocities | Andrew Smith, Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts |
| 11:06 – 11:14 | Dochart | ME52B-05 | Seasonal and Regional Dynamics of Zooplankton Traits and Community Structure in the Arctic Ocean | Robert Campbell, Celia Gelfman |
| 11:15 – 11:25 | Hall 3, The Sound | DO52A-05 | How Does an Unconstrained Deep Ocean Impact an Ensemble Forecast? A Call for Deep Observation Assimilation | Justin Cooke, Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Hall 3, Deep Blue Lab | PS53B-01 | GOFLOW: An unprecedented view of ocean currents from geostationary satellites | Nick Pizzo |
