
2020–2021
TOS Honors
Recipients
We are pleased to announce the most recent recipients of TOS Honors. In addition to Fellows, inaugural recipients were selected for three new awards!
TOS FELLOWS: Emmanuel Boss, Edward R. Urban Jr, and Dawn Wright
TOS EARLY CAREER AWARDS: April Abbott, Ryan Abernathey, and James Watson
TOS MENTORING AWARD: Claudia Benitez-Nelson
TOS OCEAN OBSERVING TEAM AWARD: RAPID/MOCHA/WBTS 26°N team
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FROM THE PRESIDENT, ANDONE LAVERY
We’ve just concluded the TOS Council election, and from the list of outstanding candidates for each position, I’m pleased to announce the following new Council members:
President-Elect: Deborah Bronk
Biological Oceanography Councilor: Kim S. Bernard
Early Career Councilor: Erin Satterthwaite
Education Councilor: Sara Harris
Ocean Data Science Councilor: Vicki Ferrini
Ocean Social Science and Policy Councilor: Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger
Physical Oceanography Councilor: LuAnne Thompson
The list of all Council members is available here, and I am excited to work with all of them on the TOS 2030 Strategy planning process. I would like to thank all candidates who participated in the election. We look forward to sharing ideas for the future of TOS after the newly composed Council has had the opportunity to meet.
JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION (JEDI) COMMITTEE UPDATE
Over the next four weeks, JEDI Committee members will participate in a multi-day retreat to help guide them as they work to develop the committee’s mission. Stay tuned for updates!
JANUARY 2021 OCEANOGRAPHY STUDENT NEWS IS ONLINE
Keep up to date on oceanography student resources and opportunities. > Read now
Understanding the Effects of Offshore Wind Energy Development on Fisheries
Check out the December special issue of Oceanography online!
September Oceanography
Check out the September issue of Oceanography online!
TOS Honors Program
Recognize and celebrate our colleagues’ accomplishments. Nominations now open!
New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration
The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2019 Field Season
Education and Public Outreach: A Guide for Scientists
Basic information for scientists who wish to engage in education and public outreach
Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceanography
Educational approaches to help engage students in learning through a collection of activities
Scientifically Speaking
Educational approaches to help engage students in learning through a collection of activities
OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS
THE DECEMBER ISSUE IS ONLINE!
The special issue on Understanding the Effects of Offshore Wind Energy Development on Fisheries provides an overview of what has been learned from research and monitoring of offshore wind farm impacts on fisheries resources.
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CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS
Beginning with the September 2020 issue of Oceanography, TOS is now emailing members the full table of contents of issues as soon as they go online, with links to each article. We would love to get your suggestions for improving this new “newsletter” by contacting us at magazine@tos.org.
A REQUEST FROM EDUCATION COLUMNIST SIMON BOXALL
In Simon’s September column, he asks readers to send him an email about how you have adapted your teaching material during the coronavirus pandemic, how students have responded, and how many of these changes you will take into the future oceanography classroom. He will incorporate responses in his next column. Please email Simon at: simon.boxall@soton.ac.uk.
EARLY ONLINE RELEASES
Moored Observations of Current and Temperature in the Alas Strait
Collected for Submarine Tailing Placement, Used for Calculating the Indonesian Throughflow
By R. Dwi Susanto et al.
The Rise of Dynamical Oceanography
A Fragmentary Historical Note: The Stommel-Munk Correspondence, 1947–1953
By Carl Wunsch
Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative Trains Students to See Through Turbulent Systems
By Kristina Cammen et al.