COSS-TT meeting – April 2027
Overview
Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team – International Coordination Meeting (COSS-TT ICM)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12- 16 April 2027
The main goal and central mission of the COSS-TT is international coordination in support of new science and expertise leading to improvements in coastal ocean prediction and forecast systems. COSS-TT works within OceanPredict towards the provision of a sound scientific and expert basis for sustainable multidisciplinary downscaling and forecasting activities in the world’s regional and coastal oceans. The strategic goal of the COSS-TT is to help achieve a truly seamless framework from the global to the coastal/littoral scale. A major contribution is to address the particular challenges on monitoring and forecasting in coastal areas and regional seas, where the majority of human marine activities take place. As these are also the areas of enhanced exploitation of marine resources, the COSS-TT has a mission well aligned with society’s needs and benefits.
International coordination meetings of the OceanPredict Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT) gather a broad community of scientists, engineers and experts around presentations and discussion themes in support of coastal ocean forecasting. The COSS-TT is well-aligned with relevant international initiatives under the UN Ocean Decade, such as the CoastPredict program, the SynObs project, the Decadal Collaborative Center for Ocean Prediction and the Decadal Collaborative Center for Coastal Resilience.
Date and time
The COSS-TT meeting is being organised in April 2027 and was hosted by the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- COSS-TT in-person meeting
- 12-16 April 2027
- 4/5 day meeting
Attendance
As in previous events, COSS community members, attendees of previous COSS-TT events, any interested members of the international regional/coastal ocean monitoring and forecasting communities and particularly local and early career scientists and researchers are very welcome to attend and submit an abstract. COSS Task Team members or their substitutes are expressly invited to attend.
Themes
Discussions and presentations of the COSS-TT meeting will be planned around these focus areas:
- Observing infrastructure in the coastal seas, integration with models and with forecasting
- Seamless integration of coastal and larger-scale estimates
- Coastal continuum, integration of coastal ocean and estuaries/deltas/wetlands, coastal cities
- Coastal projections, scenarios, coastal vulnerability
Meeting format
The workshop will take place over 4 or 5 days and will be hosted by the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The meeting will be an in-person meeting. Streaming is being considered.
Presentations
The meeting will consist of oral and poster presentations selected through the abstract submission process and organized by the meeting themes.
- Length of talks and Q&A to be confirmed.
- We expect to record presentations and put them on the website after the meeting and will ask permission for online display via the abstract submission form.
Important dates
| August 2026 | Save the date announcement |
| October 2026 | Opening of Call for abstracts |
| November/December 2026 | Opening of registration |
| December 2026 | Abstract submission closes |
| February 2027 | Registration deadline |
| 12-16 April 2027 | Meeting |
Organising Committee
Local hosts and organizers
Local hosts: (contacts for practical meeting organization questions)
- Mauro Cirano, mauro.cirano_at_igeo.ufrj.br
COSS-TT co-chairs: (contacts for scientific/agenda-related questions)
- Alexander Kurapov, alexander.kurapov_at_noaa.gov
- Joanna Staneva, joanna.staneva_at_hereon.de
OceanPredict programme office : (contact for organisational and website-related questions)
- Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, kirsten.wilmer-becker_at_metoffice.gov.uk