Program

Thursday, Feb. 13: Warm Day

  • 0830 - 0900: Morning coffee and setup
  • 0900 - 0915: Martin Visbeck and Janet Sprintall - Conference Introduction

Session I

Chairs: Qian Li, Sean Ridge, Kandaga Pujiana

  • 0915 - 0945: Matthew England - Role of ocean gateways on regional and global climate
  • 0915 - 1005: Xinfeng Liang - Vertical Redistributions of the Global Oceanic Heat and Salt Contents
  • 1005 - 1030: Coffee and discussion
  • 1030 - 1100: Susan Wijffels - INSIGHTS FROM THIRTY YEARS OF XBT OBSERVATIONS ACROSS THE INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW
  • 1100 - 1120: Sujata Murty - Understanding Indo-Pacific oceanic exchange through the Indonesian Throughflow since the late 1800s – a synthesis of coral δ18O and high-resolution ocean models
  • 1120 - 1140: Laura Gruenburg - Indonesian Throughflow in the Indian Ocean: Pathways of Heat
  • 1140 - 1200: Larry Pratt - The Panay Sill: Gateway to the Sulu Sea
  • 1200 - 1230: Discussion

Lunch break: 1230 - 1330.

Session II

Chairs: Julius Busecki, Alice Marzocchi, Shanice Bailey

  • 1330 - 1400: Arne Biastoch - The brawniest retroflection
  • 1400 - 1420: Viviane Menezes - Sea Surface Salinity from SMAP: Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and a promising Red Sea application
  • 1420 - 1440: Kay McMonigal - Variability in Agulhas Current temperature and freshwater transports, with implications for Agulhas Leakage fluxes
  • 1440 - 1515: Coffee
  • 1515 - 1630: Warm Day Discussion and wrap up

Group Dinner

The group dinner will be held at Hotel La Jolla at 6 pm. Dinner is provided along with 1 beverage ticket. A cash bar will also operate. If you need to drive to the Hotel La Jolla on Thursday night, the hotel is offering free parking. (Tell them you are at the Gateways dinner.)

Friday, Feb. 14: Cold Day

  • 0830 - 0900: Morning coffee and setup

Session III

Chairs: Loic Houpert, Lauren Mosley, Laura Cimoli

  • 0830 - 0900: Veronica Tamsitt - 3D pathways of Southern Ocean circulation
  • 0930 - 0950: D. Gwyn Evans - The cold transit of Southern Ocean upwelling
  • 0950 - 1030: Coffee
  • 1030 - 1100: Earle Wilson - Drivers of recent sea ice and upper ocean variability in the Southern Ocean
  • 1100 - 1120: Andy Thompson - Inter-sea exchange at the Antarctic margins
  • 1120 - 1140: Marina do Valle Chagas Azaneu - Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea
  • 1140 - 1200: Torge Martin - Southern Ocean deep convection in climate simulations: Turning a blind eye does not help
  • 1200 - 1230: Discussion

Lunch break: 1230 - 1330.

Session IV

Chairs: Andy Stewart, Una Miller

  • 1330 - 1400: Sarah Purkey - Implications of the variability in AABW on the ocean heat and freshwater budgets
  • 1400 - 1420: Alessandro Silvano - Past, present and future of Antarctic Bottom Water formation
  • 1420 - 1440: Paige Lavin - Tracing Abyssal Flow Pathways in a New Global Bottom Water Climatology
  • 1440 - 1500: Pierre Dutrieux - Exploring polar shelf seas, rise of the machines
  • 1500 - 1530: Coffee
  • 1530 - 1600: Joey Comiso - Anomalies and Trends in the Polar Oceans as Observed from Space
  • 1600 - 1700: Discussion and Conference Wrap-up