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	Permitting and international governance of ocean iron fertilization mCDR field research	Katherine Roche

Tuesday, February 24

Time	Location	Code	Title	People
8:30 – 10:00	M1	CP21A	Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics I Oral	Erin Peck
9:00 – 9:10	Hall 3, Blue Horizon	HE21A-04	Long-term observations of Atlantic Water Variability in the Northwind Abyssal Plain of the Western Arctic Ocean Using CPIES	Ahyoung Ku
9:30 – 9:40	Hall 3, The Abyss	CM21A-07	Can imaging sediment traps predict differences in the remineralization depths of sinking POC and PON?	Roger Patick Kelly, Melissa Omand, Yixuan Song
9:40 – 9:50	Hall 3, Deep Blue Lab	OT21A-08	Direct observations of the April 29, 2025, mid-ocean ridge seafloor volcanic eruption at 9°50’N, East Pacific Rise using advanced sensor and imagery technologies	Sam Katz
12:45 – 13:45	Carron	TH23J	What Questions Can We Answer Through Cross-Networking? An Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board (OOIFB) Town Hall to Strengthen Connections and Foster Innovation Across the Observing Community	Holly Morin
12:45 – 13:45	Clyde Auditorium	TH23K	The Research and Education Coalition for Ocean Sciences (RECOS)	Paula Bontempi
14:00 – 15:30	Carron	CP23A	Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics II Oral	Erin Peck
12:45 – 13:45	Hall 4, eLightnight Theatre 1	ED23C	ASLO Emerging Fellows: Fostering the Next Generation of Aquatic Scientists I eLightning	Susanne Menden-Deuer
14:10 – 14:20	Forth	PS23B-02	Physical and biological dynamics resolved at mixing to mesoscales in the vicinity of the New England Seamounts by the Wire Flyer profiling vehicle	Chris Roman, Lindsay Grose, Ben Grassian
14:20 – 14:30	Hall 3, Kelp Forest	CB23A-03	Pelagic resource supply and rising temperatures structure niche partitioning of corals on ocean-facing reefs	Connor Love, Kelton McMahon
14:20 – 14:30	Hall 3, Coral Cove	OB23A-03	Large copepods as conduits of the microbial loop: rethinking pathways linking surface production to deep-ocean carbon export	Kelton McMahon, Catherine Nowakowski
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Salt Marsh Morphodynamic Response to Dune Management: Insights from Netarts Bay, Oregon, U.S.	Erin Peck, Emily Hall
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Metabolic Traits in Mesopelagic Migrators: evolution and ecology	Chris Roman
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics III Poster	Erin Peck
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Time Travel via Telepresence: Bringing Historic Shipwrecks into the Classroom	Holly Pettus
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Acoustic Single Targets Detected from a Lagrangian Profiling Vehicle with Side- and Down-Looking Transducers	Ben Grassian, Roy Gilboa, Chris Roman
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Modeling bio-physical interactions at meso- and submesoscales in the Gulf of California using a high-resolution acoustic profiling vehicle.	Ben Grassian, Lindsay Grose, Chris Roman
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Acoustic Scatterers Vertical Migration Observed at Depths 1000-1600m in the Gulf of Mexico	Randy Watts, Kathy Donohue, Maureen Kennelly
16:00 – 18:00	Hall 4	Poster	Seasonal variability of Arctic zooplankton abundance and biodiversity during the MOSAiC expedition (2019-2020) – a metabarcoding approach	Robert Campbell, Celia Gelfman
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