WHIRLS – Unravelling the Impact of Ocean Fine-Scale Whirls on Our Climate and Ecosystems will participate in OSM26, where it will organise a dedicated scientific session on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, featuring both oral and poster components:
- PI31A – Cross-Scale Processes in Subtropical Boundary Current Systems and Adjacent Regions: Impacts on Climate and Ocean Ecosystems I (Oral)
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 08:30–10:00, Lomond Auditorium (SEC) - PI34A – Cross-Scale Processes in Subtropical Boundary Current Systems and Adjacent Regions: Impacts on Climate and Ocean Ecosystems II (Poster)
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, Hall 4 (Poster Hall), SEC
In addition, WHIRLS will convene a Town Hall meeting on Friday, 27 February 2026:
- TH53D – Observing and Modeling Fine-Scale Processes in the Agulhas Current System: Opportunities for Collaboration
Friday, 27 February 2026, 12:45–13:45, Dochart (SEC)
Following OSM26, WHIRLS will hold an invitation-only meeting on Saturday, 28 February 2026 at the Radisson RED Hotel, focusing on the large-scale WHIRLS field campaign planned for summer 2026, which will integrate in-situ and robotic ocean observations.
Furthermore, the following first-author presentations by WHIRLS scientists will be delivered at OSM26:
- Tuesday:
- The oceans imprint on air-sea interactions: Drivers of turbulent heat fluxes over the Agulhas Current and upcoming intensive observing efforts (Oral) by Sebastiaan Swart et al., from 14:10 – 14:20 at Boisdale
- Assessing the accuracy of turbulent air-sea heat flux observations from a small sailing USV (Oral) by Johan Edholm et al., from 14:20 – 14:30 at Boisdale
- Southern Ocean summer warming regulated by storm-driven mixing (Oral) by Marcel du Plessis et al., from 08:30 – 08:40 at Hall 3, Blue Horizon
- The island mass effect shapes the top-down and bottom-up controls on productivity and export in the Indian Southern Ocean (Oral) by Sadiyah Rawat et al., from 08:50 – 09:00 at Forth
- Wednesday:
- The nitrate isotopes faithfully trace Indian Ocean waters in Agulhas rings shed into the eastern South Atlantic (Oral) by Calvin Swart et al., from 09:22 – 09:32 at Lomond Auditorium
- The nitrate isotopes faithfully trace Indian Ocean waters in Agulhas rings shed into the eastern South Atlantic (Oral) by Emma Fahraeus et al., from 09:22 – 09:32 at Lomond Auditorium
- Properties of Mesoscale Eddies in the Cape Basin Detected Using Machine Learning and Vertical Velocities Reconstruction from SWOT (Oral) by Elisa Carli et al., from 08:52 – 09:02 at Lomond Auditorium
- Exploring fine-scale processes in the Agulhas Current system within the ERC Synergy project WHIRLS (Oral) by Arne Biastoch et al., from 08:32 – 08:42 at Lomond Auditorium
- Ocean eddies leak water due to centrifugal effects (Poster) by Rene Schubert et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- The Role of Submesoscale Processes in the Decay of Agulhas Rings (Poster) by Leon-Cornelius Mock et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- Investigating fine-scale nutrient supply in the Cape Basin using glider observations (Poster) by Olivia Dawson et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- Resolving sharper fronts and deriving vertical velocities in the Agulhas Current System using SWOT altimetry (Poster) by Solange Coadou-Chaventon et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- Materially Coherent Mesoscale Eddies: Evidence from Observations and Climate Significance (Poster) by Beatrice Altamura et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- Thursday:
- Unconditional nutrient niches for open ocean phytoplankton taxa (Oral) by Sarah Fawcett et al., from 09:20 – 09:30 at Clyde Auditorium
- A Full Seasonal Cycle of Submesoscales in the Subpolar Southern Ocean Observed by Gliders (Poster) by Vincent Dorit et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Poster Hall 4
- Spring Mixed-layer Dynamics Modulate the Nitrate Assimilation Isotope Effect in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean (Poster) by Christina Monteiro et al., from 16:00 – 18:00 at Hall 4
- Friday:
Thermohaline intrusions, diurnal warm layers and turbulence: observations of a high-strain mesoscale eddy field (Oral) by Mariana Miracca Lage et al., from 15:10 – 15:20 at Hall 3, Deep Blue Lab