ICSHMO 2025 – International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO) 2025 – Participation from the SANAP research community. Below a few presentations by researchers as well as session chairs etc. Visit the ICSHMO website for the full and final program.

  • Wayne de Jager – Increased Rotational Coupling Between Antarctic Sea Ice and the Atmosphere Over the Last 30 Years
  • Sebastiaan Swart – The oceans imprint on air sea fluxes: Drivers of turbulent heat flux over the Agulhas Current
  • Tarron Lamont – Monitoring Western Boundary Current System variability with satellite altimetry
  • Riesna R. Audh – Rafting of Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Enhances In-Ice Biogeochemical Activity in Winter
  • Robyn Verrinder – Antarctic MIZ observation platforms: Interdisciplinary approaches to resolve seasonal sea ice variability
  • Tamaryn Morris – 1. Sustained ocean observations for the Agulhas Current: Realizing the Benefits of Ocean Knowledge through Co-Design. 2. Capturing a cyclonic eddy, and cross-shelf dynamics, in the Agulhas Bight during an early retroflection of the Agulhas Current.
  • Magata Mangatane – Intercomparison of Antarctic sea-ice thickness estimates from satellite altimetry and assessment over the 2019 data-rich year.
  • Sharon Nicholson – The seasonal cycle in Southern Hemisphere Africa
  • Rutger Marquart – Coupled dynamics and thermodynamics modelling of heterogeneous sea ice and ocean waves
  • Janine Schoombie – Mapping within-island-scale wind variation on Marion Island
  • Christopher Reason – Multiyear La Niña events, the Mozambique Channel, and rainfall over eastern Africa
  • Thulwaneng Mashifane – Trait–Based Adjustments: Key to Improving Bloom Seasonal Cycle in the Subantarctic Zone
  • Sandy Thomalla – VeGAS-pCO2: Versatile glider, atmospheric and ship high precision pCO2 gas flux analyser
  • Amber Sneddon – Atmospheric River climatology for the South Atlantic Basin based on modern image-processing-based tracking.
  • Marcel Du Plessis – Storms regulate Southern Ocean summer warming
  • Sandy Thomalla -Southern Ocean Observing System for sustained and coordinated observations in a changing world
  • Thomas Ryan-Keogh – How can we effectively manage the impact of climate change on Antarctic ecosystems?
  • Sandy Thomalla – Climate-driven change to phytoplankton blooms across the global ocean
  • Nicolette Chang – Investigating Heat and Carbon Exchange in the Southern Ocean: Insights from a Mesoscale-Resolving
  • Sarah Du Preez – Environmental influence on zooplankton variability around sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands
  • Sarah-Anne Nicholson – The impact of storms on CO2 and heat exchange across the Southern Ocean
  • Thato Mtshali – Wintertime distribution and mixed layer dissolved iron budget in the south Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
  • Miranda Sitofile – The seasonal iron supply in the Southern Ocean
  • Chris Reason – Interannual and intraseasonal variability in the Southern Hemisphere

Session chairs, speakers and MC

  • Plenary Session – MC: Warren Joubert
  • Invited Speaker: Issufo Halo
  • Session: Southern Hemisphere Boundary Currents. Chair: Tamaryn Morris
  • Session: Polar. Chair: Wayne de Jager. Co-Chair: Magata Mangatane
  • Session: Emerging Technologies in Ocean Observing. Chair: Dr Tamaryn Morris
  • Session: Southern Ocean BGC. Chair: Thato Mtshali. Co-Chair: Sarah-Anne Nicholson
  • Session: Southern Ocean – BGC. Chair: Sandy Thomalla. Co-Chair: Thato Mtshali
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