The Call for Abstracts is now open. Please submit your abstract no later than 1 April 2026 (any time zone). Full submission guidelines are provided below.
A limited number of early acceptances are available for applicants with time‑sensitive funding requirements. To request early consideration, please email highco2@confer.co.nz with your abstract submitted through the online form and a brief explanation of why early approval is needed.
Abstracts are invited that align with the themes and special sessions listed below. Details of confirmed special sessions are available here.
During submission, authors should select the theme or special session that best matches their abstract.
Themes & Special Sessions
Beyond tipping points – translating science to action
- Actionable oceans: putting ocean acidification science and information into the right hands
- Financing Ocean Futures: From OA Research to Coastal Safeguards
- From Data to Decisions: Operationalizing Interdisciplinary Ocean Acidification Knowledge
Global-driven changes in biodiversity and ecosystem resilience
- Buffer or Booster? When Primary Producers Mitigate or Amplify Ocean Acidification
- Ocean acidification in the Mediterranean Sea: variability, vulnerability, and pathways in a high-CO₂, multi-stress basin
Multiple stressors’ effects on marine organisms
- Assessing high-CO₂ and multi-stressor effects on aquatic organisms using natural laboratories of climate change
- Ocean acidification multiple stressor effects on North American species
Ocean-based solutions
- Addressing Coastal Acidification and Enhancing Carbon Sinks through Coordinated Management of Wastewater, Nutrients, and Ecosystems
- Alkalinity cycling in a changing ocean
- Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network Perspectives on Ocean Solutions
- Understanding ocean-based climate solutions: Ecological implications, monitoring needs, and financing pathways
Technological advances in marine climate change research
- Charting the Future: Emerging Technologies for Ocean Acidification Monitoring
- New approaches for quantifying variability and human impacts on ocean biogeochemistry from sparse observational data
The modulating role of time – from short-term variability to evolution
- Ocean Deoxygenation: A Twin Threat to Ocean Health in a High CO₂ World
Working across knowledge systems in a high-CO₂ world
- Rebuilding coastal ecosystems through transformative change: Coastal people and a changing world
- The River-Ocean Nexus: Freshwater Acidification in a High-CO₂ World
- Understanding a high-CO₂ Arctic: observations, modeling, impacts, and emerging approaches across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems
Submission Guidelines
Please prepare the following information prior to submitting your abstract:
- Title (recommended ≤ 20 words)
- Authors and their affiliations
- Presenting author’s email address
- Abstract text (maximum 250 words)
Presentation Types
You may submit your abstract for one of the following formats:
- Talk
- Poster
- Poster + Speed Talk
For talk submissions, you will be asked to indicate either the special session or theme most appropriate for your presentation. Details on talk duration and poster dimensions will be provided upon acceptance.
The Ocean in a High CO2 World, 5 March 2026. More information.
