The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group is holding an online multidisciplinary workshop, “The Southern Ocean in the Weddell Sea and off Dronning Maud Land: unique oceanographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes”
Date of workshop: 20-23rd October 2020 (originally 28-30 April 2020, postponed due to COVID-19)
The aims of the workshop are to:
- Provide an overview and actual update of scientific findings, which underline the WS-DML as an important area for multi-disciplinary studies (30 registered oral presentations, 10 three-minute flash presentations (substitute for ‘poster’ session), and a discussion on initiating a WS-DML special issue. The SOOS community and also the individual researchers would benefit from an improved visibility of our results published in such a special volume.
- Inform the SOOS WS-DML community about the progress of activities in the area of interest.
- Present ideas, actions and products for the future including multi-national initiatives and ongoing and future national plans, including a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on the coming field season, in a plenary session.
Full announcement including preliminary schedule is available here.
More information on SOOS at: http://soos.aq/activities/rwg/wsdml