We are happy to announce that registration is now open for the SOLAS Open Science Conference, Washington State, USA, 7-10 May 2012.
The conference programme consists of plenary lectures divided into eight themes:

• Sea-ice biogeochemistry and interactions with the atmosphere
• Ocean-derived aerosols: production, evolution and impacts
• Atmospheric control of nutrient cycling and production in the surface ocean (incl. dry/wet deposition and ship plumes)
• Air-sea gas fluxes at eastern boundary upwelling and oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) systems
• SOLAS and the future ocean
• Long-lived greenhouse gases: sea-air exchange and impact (incl. ocean acidification)
• Physics of air-sea exchange
• Emerging Issues
  

Plenary talks will be followed by parallel discussion sessions, intended to provide an informal opportunity for discussion of hot topics, and poster sessions giving all a platform to communicate their science.

Submission will be open for discussion session proposals and poster abstracts soon. Announcements will be made via the SOLAS e-bulletin and website.