22 February 2026
Scottish Event Campus
Glasgow, Scotland
22-27 February 2026
Press contact:
Liza Lester, +1 (202) 777-7494, [email protected]
GLASGOW — The 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM26) will host two press roundtable briefings in the press room (SEC level 1, room M2) at 3:00 pm local time on Tuesday and Wednesday, 24 and 25 February. Off-site reporters may register for the briefing live streams using the registration links below. Recordings of the briefings will be posted to AGU’s Youtube channel following the events.
OSM26 convenes in Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 February 2025. The biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union , the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography , and The Oceanography Society , brings together 6,500 scientists, students, policymakers and educators to discuss breaking research across the ocean sciences and critical issues affecting a sustainable future for our oceans.
Briefing schedule:
AGU leadership to discuss sustaining global science in a time of uncertainty
AGU
Tuesday, 24 February at 3:00pm GMT (10:00 am EST)
- Register for the briefing live stream
AGU leadership will host a roundtable press briefing at OSM26 to discuss the state of global science amid the U.S. Administration’s unprecedented actions and what AGU is doing to support the scientific enterprise.
AGU leadership will outline:
- recent federal actions impacting national climate policy and international engagement
- scientific publishing initiatives supporting UN goals and data infrastructure
- New partnerships supporting the development of governance tools for climate intervention
Speakers:
- Brandon Jones, President, AGU
- Janice R. Lachance, Executive Director and CEO, AGU
Preliminary Results from the first EPA-permitted ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) field trial conducted in the summer 2025
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday, 25 February at 3:00pm GMT (10:00 am EST)
- Register for the briefing live stream
The LOC-NESS project (Locking Ocean Carbon in the Northeast Shelf and Slope) is a U.S. research effort that addresses the need identified by the US Federal Government and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to rapidly advance research into marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches, such as ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), a potential type of mCDR that de-acidifies sea water while storing carbon away from the atmosphere. In addition to emissions reductions, OAE may help to mitigate the effects of climate change on the environment and society.
Designed to inform future science, regulation, and policy, LOC-NESS evaluates how OAE performs in real-world conditions and what its environmental impacts may be, combining lab experiments, advanced ocean modeling, community engagement, and a highly monitored field trial conducted in the Gulf of Maine in August, 2025.
At this press event, researchers will present preliminary findings from across the project, including results from the groundbreaking Gulf of Maine trial. Panelists will discuss OAE’s effectiveness at removing CO₂ (Subhas), biological and ecosystem impacts (Davitt), the use of novel sensing technologies and autonomous vehicles (Nicholson), and lessons from public engagement (Kleisner).
Speakers include:
- Adam Subhas, LOC-NESS principal investigator and project lead, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- David “Roo” Nicholson, LOC-NESS co-principal investigator, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Kristin Kleisner, Lead Senior Scientist and Associate Vice President for Ocean Science, Environmental Defense Fund
- Rachel Davitt, Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University