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 Highlights

       IACS IAMAS IAPSO logos The Virtual Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Ocean seminar series
(VACO-21), 19-23 July 2021 

In place of the Busan Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Ocean (BACO-21), which had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions, IAMAS, IACS and IAPSO arranged a Virtual Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Ocean seminar series (VACO-21) for 19-23 July 2021. IAMAS President Joyce Penner, IACS President-Elect Liss Andreassen and IAPSO President Trevor McDougall introduced 17 invited speakers, including the recipients of the IAMAS, IACS and IAPSO early career awards for 2021. Over the week, 187 individuals joined the audience. 

Full programme

Recordings of the presentations  

IAPSO invited speakers VACO-21
Paolo Cipollini Essential Climate Variables over Oceans and Ice: a View from Space 
Joellen Russell Designing the Required Southern Ocean Observing System for Predicting Climate Change: Robot Floats, Satellites and Supercomputers
Jenny Mecking Predicting the 2015 North Atlantic Cold Blob
Matthew England Global ocean-atmosphere climate teleconnections

 

IAPSO Awards 2021
Albert I Medal Carl Wunsch Physical Oceanography 1970 and Onwards: Through Outstanding PhD Theses
Early Career Scientist Medal - Physical ocean science Thomas Wahl Bigger ships or less flooding? How tidal changes affect flooding along the U.S. coast
Early Career Scientist Medal - Chemical ocean science Jessica Fitzsimmons Micronutrient trace metal dynamics in the Arctic Ocean

 

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pdf  Learn more about IAPSO from Smythe-Wright et al.,"IAPSO: tales from the ocean frontier", Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 10, 137–150, 2019 (click on the icon)

 About IAPSO

The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) is one of eight Associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) which, in turn, is one of the 40 scientific Unions and Associations presently grouped within the International Science Council (ISC).

IAPSO has the prime goal of "promoting the study of scientific problems relating to the oceans and the interactions taking places at the sea floor, coastal, and atmospheric boundaries insofar as such research is conducted by the use of mathematics, physics, and chemistry." IAPSO has addressed this goal through four fundamental objectives:

  1. Organize, sponsor, and co-sponsor formal and informal international forums permitting ready means of communication amongst ocean scientists throughout the world;
  2. Establish commissions, sub-committees, and organize commensurate workshops to encourage, stimulate, and coordinate new and advanced international research activities;
  3. Provide basic services significant to the conduct of physical oceanography, and
  4. Publish proceedings of symposia, meetings, and workshops, and fundamental references on the current state-of-the art and knowledge of physical oceanography. 

IAPSO participates in ISC's Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
An important part of the co-operation with SCOR is the formation of joint working groups.

IAPSO interacts with UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).

This website provides information on IAPSO and its activities.
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