The Leading International Conference on the Optics of Inland, Coastal, and Ocean Waters
Welcome!
We warmly invite you to be a part of Ocean Optics XXVII.
The biennial Ocean Optics Conference provides a venue to share your research and collaborate with the diverse ocean optics community including oceanographers, marine ecologists, limnologists, optical engineers, marine resource managers, Earth observation scientists, and policy professionals from around the world.
Following the traditional Ocean Optics Conference format, this event will include invited plenary speakers, selected scientific oral presentations, and numerous poster presentations. In addition, pre-conference short courses and workshops offer the opportunity to build data analysis skills.
In 2024, nearly 400 members of the ocean optics community gathered for Ocean Optics XXVI to share their research results, successes, and challenges. Attendees from 33 countries participated in activities throughout the week, from the 100 students in the Sunday short courses and workshops, to over 50 oral, plenary, and award presentations, as well as over 285 poster presentations.
Additional information will be provided when it becomes available. To stay up to date, be sure to sign up for our Ocean Optics News email list. We look forward to you joining us in Fall 2026.
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Who Attends
The Ocean Optics Conference attracts a diverse audience of active practitioners in this field, including oceanographers, marine ecologists, limnologists, optical engineers, marine resource managers, and policy professionals from around the world.
The Program
Conference presentations include the science of optics across all aquatic environments, research, and applications, including (but not limited to) biogeochemistry, environmental management and applications, instruments, techniques and observational systems, remote sensing, phytoplankton ecology, radiative transfer and optical theory, global change, and benthic processes. Attendees will attend plenary presentations during the day and interact with colleagues during scientific poster session receptions held in the exhibit/poster hall in the early evening. In addition to invited and contributed oral and poster presentations, the conference will provide the opportunity for community-wide discussions.
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Planning Committee
Griet Neukermans, Chair – Belgium
David Antoine — Australia
Agnieszka Bialek – United Kingdom
Bronwyn Cahill – Germany
Robert Foster – USA
Henry Houskeeper – USA
Hubert Loisel – France
Laura Lorenzoni – USA
Catherine Mitchell – USA
Aimee Neeley – USA
Emanuele Organelli – Italy
Jenny Ramarui – USA
Sara Rivero-Calle – USA
Mortimer Werther – Switzerland
Conference Organizer
Ocean Optics XXVII is organized by The Oceanography Society (TOS). As a professional society, TOS is committed to supporting a community that encourages the open expression and exchange of ideas, that is free from all forms of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and that is welcoming to all members and to those who participate in its activities. In pursuit of that commitment, TOS is dedicated to the philosophy of equality of opportunity and treatment for all participants.
