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Darwin Goes to Ocean Sciences 2026

Take a look at work Darwin members contributed to this year’s Ocean Sciences conference which took place in Glasgow, UK, February 22 – 27.

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Authors
A high-resolution gridded boundary current product from long-term eXpendable bathyThermograph (XBT) transect measurements
Marlos P Goes, Shenfu Dong, Janet Sprintall, Rebecca Cowley, Antonino Ian Ferola, Tayanne Ferreira, Mauro Cirano, Werner Barros, Zhetao Tan, Gael Forget, Claudia Fratianni, Justine Parks, Jared Brzenski, Yuri Cotroneo, Giuseppe Aulicino, Kenneth Ridgway and XBT Science Team
A satellite-based estimates of biological pools and fluxes of carbon in the oceanic mixed layer
Shubha Sathyendranath, Robert J W Brewin, Heather A. Bouman, Michael J Follows, Thomas Jackson, Bror Jönsson, Tihomir S Kostadinov, Zarko Kovac, Gemma Kulk, Osvaldo Ulloa
A water mass transformation approach to understanding the physical drivers of marine heatwaves
Mariana Torres, Shanice Bailey, Gael Forget, Xinru Li, Katherine Elise Turner, Henri F Drake
Absolute Quantification of Microbial Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archaea: Taxon-resolved abundances of rRNA genes and whole genomes (~cells) per liter via internal standards or anchoring with flow cytometry, from amplicons and metagenomes with validations and application to long ocean transects
Nathan Williams, Qucheng Bei, Yubin Raut, Alexandra Jones-Kellett, Michael J. Follows, Jed Fuhrman
Advancing Community Ocean and Coastal Modeling by Harnessing the Power of the Cloud
Michael Lalime, Breanna Vanderplow, Breanna Vanderplow Tiffany C Vance, Katherine Moore Powell, Patrick Tripp, Zachary Willis, Mykel Alvis, Micah Wengren, Minna Ho, Kelly Knee
Air-sea coupled drivers of the 2013–2016 North Pacific Marine Heatwave
Wenrui Jiang, Gael Forget, Yuanyuan Song, Thomas W N Haine
Beyond NPZD: How Heterotrophic Bacteria Transform Ecosystem Dynamics and Carbon Cycling in a Coastal Ocean Model
Jann Paul Mattern, Christopher A Edwards, Stephanie Dutkiewicz
Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography
Anna Hickman, Francesco Mattei, Julia Uitz, Louison Dufour, Vincenzo Vellucci, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky, Stephanie Dutkiewicz
Coexistence of Photosynthetic Marine Microorganisms, Viruses, and Grazers: Toward Integration in Ocean Ecosystem Models
Paul Frémont, Stephen J Beckett, David Demory, Eric Carr, Christopher L. Follett, David Talmy, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Joshua S Weitz
Delineating New Biogeographical Provinces of Phytoplankton Using High-Resolution ASV Data in the Pacific Ocean
Sangwon Hyun, Yubin Raut, Nathan Williams, Rafael Catoia, Jed A Fuhrman
Global Anomalous Water Mass Budgets for Marine Heatwaves in ECCOv4r4
Ran Liu, Gael Forget, Zijie Zhao, Mariana Torres, Andrew Ross, Henri F Drake
Internal Waves Service: Unifying Global Internal Solitary Wave Observations via Daily Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery
Adriana M. Santos-Ferreira, Joao Pinelo, José C B da Silva, Johnny A. Johannessen, Joao Gonçalves, Jorge M Magalhaes, Bertrand Chapron, Gael Forget, Maarten C Buijsman, Edwin Goh, Muriel Pinheiro, Christine Gommenginger, Magda Carr, Benjamin Holt, Marek Stastna, Samuel Hartharn-Evans, Εmmanoyha Oikonomoy, Jesús Pineda, Kateryna Terletska, Mihaela Hnatiuc, Daniel Hayes, Michael Dunphy, Jinbo Wang, Mirel Paun, Jamie Shutler, Fabrice Collard
Lagrangian Ocean Analysis: Developing Tools for the Coming Decade
Erik van Sebille, Knut-Frode Willi Rath, Laurin Steidle, Michael Denes, Kristofer Döös, Gaute Hope, Isabel Jalon-Rojas, Claire Paris, Nick Hodgskin, Joseph Schoonover, Gael Forget, Ross Vennell
MapEval4OceanHeat (ME4OH): an objective assessment of mapping methods used to estimate ocean heat content change
Donata Giglio, Matthew D Palmer, Didier Monselesan, Catia M Domingues, Anrijs Abele, Rémy Asselot, Tim Boyer, Lijing Cheng, Gael Forget, Fourest Sebastien, Marlos P Goes, Maria Zita Hakuba, Leon Hermanson, Gregory C Johnson, Rachel Elizabeth Killick, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk, Mikael Kuusela, William Llovel, John M Lyman, Benoit Meyssignac, Katie Mills, Doug M Smith, Thea Sukianto, Charles Troupin, Zhankun Wang
Marine Environment Reanalyses and Four-Dimensional Data-Driven Models: Progress and Applications I Poster
Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Gael Forget, Raphaelle Sauzede, Mary Margaret Stoll, Chunxue Yang
Modelling the biogeography of marine phytoplankton: redesigning with the help of ‘omics and optical observations
Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Yubin Raut
Modulations of the North Atlantic Ocean Carbon Sink under a Warming World
Yohei Takano, Dani Jones, Anna Katavouta, Richard G Williams, Gael Forget, Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, David Roy Munday, Vassil M Roussenov
Quantifying pathways and impacts of interannual subtropical-to-tropical and tropical-to-subtropical connections in a suite of ECCO experiments
Cora Hersh, Geoffrey Gebbie, Susan Anne Wijffels, Gael Forget
Quantifying Uncertainties in Ocean Heat Transport Estimates: Insights from ECCO and an Ensemble of Ocean Reanalyses
Gael Forget, Susanna Winkelbauer, Michael Mayer, Yuanyuan Song, Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Chunxue Yang
Regional Oceanographic Controls on Pelagic Nitrogen Fixation in Northern Australian Waters
Douglas G Capone, Ajit Subramaniam, Yubin Raut, Joseph Peter Montoya, Miles Furnas, Margaret R Mullholland, Edward J Carpenter, Joseph Montoya
Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation variability in North Atlantic ocean carbon storage and its drivers
Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Dustin Carroll, Neill Sutherland Mackay, Kay Suselj, Dimitris Menemenlis, Hong Zhang
Temperature Change in Mode Water Source Regions
Yuanyuan Song, Gael Forget
The diel rhythm of intracellular carbon storage favors nano-phytoplankton over pico-phytoplankton in subtropical oceans
Zhen Wu, Ioannis Tsakalakis, John Casey, Michael J Follows, Joseph John Vallino
The International Quality-controlled Ocean Database (IQuOD) product updates
Xinyi Song, Lijing Cheng, Gael Forget, Rebecca Cowley, Simona Simoncelli, Simon Good, Bill Katie-Anne Mills
Unraveling Interactions Between Large-Scale Ocean Circulation, Biogeochemical Cycles, and Marine Ecosystems II
Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Yohei Takano, Yassir Eddebbar, Sophia Hines, Yumi Abe

Image: Darwin members past and present – courtesy Stephanie Dutkiewicz.