Issue 39: SOLAS Open Science Conference 2024

The SOLAS Event Report Issue 39 reports on SOLAS Open Science Conference (OSC) 2024, which took place from 10-14 November 2024, in Goa, India. The conference brought together approximately 250 participants from 25 countries and regions to share their recent research findings and network with colleagues worldwide.

The OSC 2024 featured 32 plenary talks and 97 poster presentations, which were aligned with the core themes and cross-cutting themes of the SOLAS 2015-2025 Science Plan. A special session was dedicated to structuring SOLAS science for its third decade (SOLAS 3.0), which will be organised around three pillars, i.e., discovery science , science towards solutions, and scientific community and skill development. In addition to the oral and poster presentations, scientists from the SOLAS community and partner organisations convened nine discussion sessions to identify new research frontiers and collaborative opportunities. The OSC 2024 also featured an Early Career Scientists (ECS) Day, a day of skill development lectures and networking activities for ECS. In addition, three side events were organised before the main conference by the Working Group (WG) 163 of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) on Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (CIce2Clouds), SCOR WG 167 on Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition (RUSTED), and the SOLAS Science & Society theme team.