Call for Abstracts

The Call for Abstracts is now open. Please submit your abstract no later than 1 April 2026 (any time zone). Full submission guidelines are provided below.

A limited number of early acceptances are available for applicants with time‑sensitive funding requirements. To request early consideration, please email highco2@confer.co.nz with your abstract submitted through the online form and a brief explanation of why early approval is needed.

Abstracts are invited that align with the themes and special sessions listed below. Details of confirmed special sessions are available here.
During submission, authors should select the theme or special session that best matches their abstract.

CONFIRMED SPECIAL SESSIONS INFO

Themes & Special Sessions

Beyond tipping points – translating science to action

  • Actionable oceans: putting ocean acidification science and information into the right hands
  • Financing Ocean Futures: From OA Research to Coastal Safeguards
  • From Data to Decisions: Operationalizing Interdisciplinary Ocean Acidification Knowledge

Global-driven changes in biodiversity and ecosystem resilience

  • Buffer or Booster? When Primary Producers Mitigate or Amplify Ocean Acidification
  • Ocean acidification in the Mediterranean Sea: variability, vulnerability, and pathways in a high-CO₂, multi-stress basin

Multiple stressors' effects on marine organisms

  • Assessing high-CO₂ and multi-stressor effects on aquatic organisms using natural laboratories of climate change
  • Ocean acidification multiple stressor effects on North American species

Ocean-based solutions

  • Addressing Coastal Acidification and Enhancing Carbon Sinks through Coordinated Management of Wastewater, Nutrients, and Ecosystems
  • Alkalinity cycling in a changing ocean
  • Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network Perspectives on Ocean Solutions
  • Understanding ocean-based climate solutions: Ecological implications, monitoring needs, and financing pathways

Technological advances in marine climate change research

  • Charting the Future: Emerging Technologies for Ocean Acidification Monitoring
  • New approaches for quantifying variability and human impacts on ocean biogeochemistry from sparse observational data

The modulating role of time – from short-term variability to evolution

  • Ocean Deoxygenation: A Twin Threat to Ocean Health in a High CO₂ World

Working across knowledge systems in a high-CO₂ world

  • Rebuilding coastal ecosystems through transformative change: Coastal people and a changing world
  • The River-Ocean Nexus: Freshwater Acidification in a High-CO₂ World
  • Understanding a high-CO₂ Arctic: observations, modeling, impacts, and emerging approaches across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

Key Dates

  • Call for abstracts opens:
    Mid-February 2026
  • Abstract submission deadline:
    1 April 2026 midnight (any time zone)
  • Presenter notifications:
    First half of May 2026
  • Earlybird & presenter registration deadline:
    30 June 2026 midnight (any time zone)

Submission Guidelines

Please prepare the following information prior to submitting your abstract: 

  • Title (recommended ≤ 20 words) 
  • Authors and their affiliations 
  • Presenting author’s email address 
  • Abstract text (maximum 250 words) 

Presentation Types

You may submit your abstract for one of the following formats: 

  1. Talk
  2. Poster
  3. Poster + Speed Talk 

For talk submissions, you will be asked to indicate either the special session or theme most appropriate for your presentation. Details on talk duration and poster dimensions will be provided upon acceptance. 

Language of Submission

All abstracts must be submitted in English or accompanied by an English version. 

How to Submit

Use the submission button at the top of this page. 

Review & Notification

All completed abstracts will undergo peer review. Authors will be notified of acceptance status in early to mid-May 2026. 

Presenter Registration Requirement

Accepted presenters must register and pay the symposium registration fee by 30 June 2026 to be included in the final programme. 

Publication

By submitting an abstract, authors consent to the publication of accepted abstracts in the online programme and in symposium proceedings or similar outputs. 

Presentation Details

Talks will be scheduled within special or general sessions. Posters will be on display at the symposium with dedicated poster sessions. Additional presentation details, including information on speed talks, will be included in acceptance notifications. 

Recording and Photography

By submitting an abstract and/or attending the Symposium, participants acknowledge and consent to the following: 

  • Presentations (slides, audio, and video) may be recorded for documentation, accessibility, hybrid participation, or post-event dissemination. 
  • Photographs may be taken by the organisers or designated photographers for use in reports, social media, and promotional materials. 
  • Presenters who do not wish to have their talk recorded may indicate this during the speaker confirmation process. Please note that recording of plenary sessions may be mandatory. 

 

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