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SUMMARY:OOI Endurance Array: November Virtual Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:The OOI Endurance Array team will host monthly virtual office hours on the first Wednesday of each month at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. \nDrop in to ask questions\, connect with the team\, or just stay in the loop. \nZoom Link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93329747805?pwd=31ofVyNtza6u33rGfoqXO6JZIBGn3v.1 \nWhat to expect: \n\nJoin any time during the hour; stay as long as you like.\nWhen you join the Zoom you’ll enter the main room. There may already be a demo or discussion in progress. Feel free to post your question and/or ask for a breakout room in the Zoom chat.\nBreakout rooms will be available for smaller group discussion and/or to share screens.\n\nThese Office Hours will be guided by the AGU Meetings Code of Conduct; in addition\, there will be no recording nor AI tools logging into the Zoom. Please report any issues to OOI Leadership.
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/ooi-endurance-array-november-virtual-office-hours/
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SUMMARY:OOI Endurance Array: December Virtual Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:The OOI Endurance Array team will host monthly virtual office hours on the first Wednesday of each month at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. \nDrop in to ask questions\, connect with the team\, or just stay in the loop. \nZoom Link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93329747805?pwd=31ofVyNtza6u33rGfoqXO6JZIBGn3v.1 \nWhat to expect: \n\nJoin any time during the hour; stay as long as you like.\nWhen you join the Zoom you’ll enter the main room. There may already be a demo or discussion in progress. Feel free to post your question and/or ask for a breakout room in the Zoom chat.\nBreakout rooms will be available for smaller group discussion and/or to share screens.\n\nThese Office Hours will be guided by the AGU Meetings Code of Conduct; in addition\, there will be no recording nor AI tools logging into the Zoom. Please report any issues to OOI Leadership.
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/ooi-endurance-array-december-virtual-office-hours/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T080000
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SUMMARY:OOIFB Community Forum: Building a Collective Vision for the Future of Ocean Observing
DESCRIPTION:Prior to the 2026 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in San Francisco\, CA\, the Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board (OOIFB)\, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)\, will host a Community Forum focused on building a collective vision for the future of ocean observing. This collaborative event will bring together leading researchers\, modelers\, data scientists\, resource managers\, policy-makers\, students\, and other ocean science and observing stakeholders to consider the future of ocean observing in the context of the recent NSF Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) requesting community input on ocean observing priorities. Building on perspectives from federally-funded observing efforts (e.g. NSF\, NOAA\, NASA\, USGS\, and ONR) and drawing from community responses to the NSF DCL\, the Forum will articulate: \n\nWhy sustained ocean observations matter for society and a range of public stakeholders.\nA community-consensus message on ocean observing needs and priorities\, identifying convergence across different ocean observing communities and synthesizing ideas shared in response  to the NSF DCL.\nA forward-looking vision for the role of federally-funded ocean observation in hypothesis-driven science.\n\nThe Forum will begin in the early evening of Friday\, December 4th with an informal\, opening reception that will provide an opportunity to bring participants together and engage before focused discussions on the following day. An engaging\, opening presentation will spark conversation and encourage broader thinking. On Saturday\, December 5\, 2026\, a framing panel discussion\, featuring diverse perspectives from across the ocean observing system\, will then be followed by a series of collaborative breakout sessions. The goal of these full-day discussions is to develop a concise\, accessible\, community-informed framework\, “Ocean Observations: A Summary for Stakeholders\,” that will synthesize areas of community consensus around the value of ocean observing\, critical scientific and observational gaps\, coordination priorities\, and emerging opportunities. The summary will help articulate not only what individual observing systems provide\, but why a coordinated\, sustained\, and responsive ocean observing system is essential to advancing ocean science and addressing societal needs. \nWho should attend this Community Forum? Stakeholders that span federally-funded\, sustained observing programs\, time-series sites\, biogeochemical and physical observing\, deep-ocean infrastructure\, polar observing\, and ecosystem-scale observations. \nRegistration to participate in this forum is required. In-person space is limited and individuals are encouraged to submit their application to participate promptly. There is no registration fee to attend this event\, and limited travel support (via post-event reimbursement) is available for eligible individuals. Virtual participation will be available\, but only on Saturday\, December 5th. Virtual attendees still need to apply to participate. \nPlease follow this link to apply to participate in the 2026 OOIFB Community Forum. \nAn agenda outline and other event details will be posted to this webpage soon. \nIf you have any questions or issues\, please email Holly Morin (holly@ooifb.org).
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/ooifb-community-forum-building-a-collective-vision-for-the-future-of-ocean-observing/
LOCATION:Marriott Marquis\, San Francisco\, CA
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SUMMARY:AGU 2026: Long-Term Ocean Observatories as Drivers of Sensor and Data Science Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two decades\, growing recognition of shifting baselines\, spatial variability\, and the value of long-duration ocean observations has driven expansion of long-term mobile and stationary ocean observatories\, including ARGO\, ONC\, OOI\, and more. These observatories have produced essential time-series data in ecologically and economically critical\, and often understudied\, marine environments. They also catalyzed major innovations in engineering and data science\, including development of robust hardware that can withstand years on the seafloor and survive severe surface conditions\, methods to mitigate drift and biofouling over extended deployments\, software and machine learning algorithms designed to handle the high volume and frequency of real-time data streams\, and procedures to ensure long-term storage\, quality control\, processing\, and delivery of enormous quantities of diverse instrument data. This session highlights advances in ocean observing technology and data processing tools\, emphasizing best practices and the sometimes unanticipated scientific and operational benefits of long-term ocean observatories. \nSubmit an Abstract to this Session \n\nPrimary Convener:\n\nMichael Vardaro\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Seattle Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConveners:\n\nWendi Ruef\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Seattle Campus\n\n\n\nEdward Paul Dever\n\n\nOregon State University
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/agu-2026-long-term-ocean-observatories-as-drivers-of-sensor-and-data-science-innovation/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:AGU 2026: AI and Machine Learning for Sustained Ocean Observing: Progress and the Road Ahead
DESCRIPTION:Long-term\, large-scale ocean observing systems\, including the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)\, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC)\, Argo\, GO-BGC\, and IOOS networks\, among others\, generate high-density\, multi-stream datasets at a volume and complexity that increasingly exceed the capacity of traditional analysis approaches. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offer powerful tools for rapidily processing these data at scale and reveal patterns and scientific insights that would otherwise remain undetected. We invite contributions highlighting observatory science enhanced by AI and ML\, including but not limited to: seismic and acoustic event detection; computer vision applications; integration with modeling and data assimilation workflows; quality assurance\, quality control\, and anomaly detection; autonomous platform control\, data reduction and adaptive sampling; and cross-platform data synthesis. Work addressing model interpretability\, training data limitations\, and reproducibility is especially encouraged. Contributions are welcome across disciplines\, including physical oceanography\, biogeochemistry\, marine ecology\, and solid Earth science. \nSubmit and Abstract for this Session \n\nPrimary Convener:\n\nKatharine Bigham\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Seattle Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConveners:\n\nBen Biffard\n\n\nOcean Networks Canada\, University of Victoria\n\n\n\nMartin Scherwath\n\n\nUniversity of Victoria\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudent/Early Career Convener:\n\nAda Carter\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Seattle Campus
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/agu-2026-ai-and-machine-learning-for-sustained-ocean-observing-progress-and-the-road-ahead/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA
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SUMMARY:AGU 2026 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:AGU’s annual meeting\, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists\, convenes 25\,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research\, connect\, collaborate\, and inspire one another. \nDiscover “Where Science Connects” at AGU26. Share your research with the global Earth and space science community.
URL:https://oceanobservatories.org/event/agu-2026/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA
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