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The 6th Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) Annual Workshop will be held at the ICMS The Bayes Centre, Edinburgh, UK on 22-25 September 2025.
“Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics” (STUOD) is a project funded by the highly prestigious ERC Synergy Grant, led by Imperial College London, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) and the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). The project aims to deliver new capabilities for assessing variability and uncertainty in upper ocean dynamics. It will provide decision makers a means of quantifying the effects of local patterns of sea level rise, heat uptake, carbon storage and change of oxygen content and pH in the ocean. Its multimodal monitoring will enhance the scientific understanding of marine debris transport, tracking of oil spills and accumulation of plastic in the sea.
For September 2025, STUOD is planning to focus on a range of fundamental topic areas, including:
1. Observations at high resolution of upper ocean properties such as temperature, salinity, topography, wind, waves and velocity
2. Large scale numerical simulations
3. Data-based stochastic equations for upper ocean dynamics that quantify simulation error
4. Stochastic data assimilation to reduce uncertainty
Scientific Committee
- Prof Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER)
- Prof Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
- Prof Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
- Prof Etienne Mémin (INRIA)
Programme and Format
This 4-day, in-person event will include a variety of presentations with speakers that include leading mid-career and senior researchers as well as early-career researchers. This forum will yield opportunities for early career investigators to have discussions with established scientists, fostering potential future research collaborations, networking and training of the next generation of researchers.
Please view our published programme (TBC).
Confirmed Speakers
- Prof Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER)
- Prof Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
- Prof Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
- Prof Etienne Memin (INRIA)
Please see our list of speakers and schedule overview (TBC).
Help and Information
Finding ICMS, and local travel and accommodation: https://www.icms.org.uk/coming-icms
For assistance from the venue, please contact: TBC