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We invite abstracts to the following session at the EGU 2025 General Assembly, April 27 – May 2, 2025. OS1.5 Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future (Co-organized by CL4) Conveners: Caroline Ummenhofer, Alejandra Sanchez-Franks, Estel Font, Yan Du, Saurabh Rathore While significant advances have been made recently in our understanding of the Indian…

US GO-SHIP is seeking 6 students to participate in the 2023 reoccupation of I05 (32°S in the Indian Ocean) (55 Days, July-September 2023). Details and information on how to apply can be found under News and Job Postings on the US GO-SHIP website (https://usgoship.ucsd.edu/) here: https://usgoship.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/353/GO-SHIP_I05_2023_Student_Opportunity.pdf. Inquiries can be directed to Alison Macdonald (US GO-SHIP project manager,…

US GO-SHIP Seagoing opportunity: Need co-chief scientist for IO5 (32°S in the Indian Ocean, July-September 2023) LEARN MORE Apply by January 16!

The South Korean Research vessel R.V. Isabu is carrying annual research cruises to the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge in the Indian Ocean. The cruises on this state-of-the-art vessel will run until at least 2026. The potential exists for US PIs to participate in these cruises. See the Science Plan for the Korea-US inDian Ocean Scientific (KUDOS)…

Dear Colleagues,As you are kindly aware that International Indian Ocean Science Conference (IIOSC) 2020 was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic situation. We are happy to inform that the conference is now rescheduled to March 14-18, 2022 as IIOSC-2022 conference. We are hoping to have an in-person conference in Goa, India (with an option to join…

The SOLAS Event Report Issue 18 reports on the SOLAS event focusing on the Indian Ocean, which was held on 30 September 2020 online. The aim of the workshop was to present and discuss current, on-going, and planned SOLAS research and initiatives taking place in the Indian Ocean and help forge collaborations. In addition, the workshop…

POS Panel Webinar Series: Lisa Beal (University of Miami) gave a talk on June 4 entitled “IndOOS-2: A roadmap to better observations of the rapidly warming Indian Ocean.” View recording here Learn more about this series: https://usclivar.org/webinars

Keep up to date on IIOE-2 happenings via three great newsletters. The US IIOE-2 Newsletter reports specifically on US contributions to IIOE-2 and the activities on of the US IIOE-2 Steering Committee whereas the Indian Ocean Bubble-2 and the International IIOE-2 Newsletter report more broadly on IIOE-2 research and capacity development activities.

Submit your abstracts to the following session at the EGU 2022 General Assembly, April 3-8, 2022. OS1.9 Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future (co-organized) Conveners: Caroline Ummenhofer, Yan Du, Alejandra Sanchez-Franks, Peter Sheehan https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42193 The Indian Ocean is unique among the other tropical ocean basins due to the seasonal reversal of monsoon winds…

Deep-Sea Research II has recently published the first volume of a special issue series on the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition. View the volume (March 2019) — DSR-II special issues – Two special issues on IIOE-2 are under development. 38 manuscripts have been submitted to date, of which 12 papers are in production and 16…

Abstracts invited to EGU OS1.5 Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future

US GO-SHIP seeks 6 students to participate in 2023 reoccupation of I05 (July-Sept. 2023)

US GO-SHIP seeking co-chief scientist for Indian Ocean line

KUDOS – Korean RV opportunity

International Indian Ocean Science Conference March 14-18, 2022 – abstracts due 22 Nov 21

Event Report on the SOLAS Indian Ocean meeting released

POS Panel Webinar: IndOOS-2: A roadmap to better observations of the rapidly warming Indian Ocean

US and International Newsletters

EGU 2022 Indian Ocean Session: Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future

DSR-II special issues