COSS-TT meeting – June 2025
Overview and meeting objectives
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.
Important dates
| June 2024 | Save the date announcement |
| September 2024 | Announcement of WS with flyer. |
| 21 January 2025 | Opening of Call for abstracts |
| Date to be confirmed | Opening of registration |
| 28 February 2025 | Abstract submission closes |
| 31 March 2025 | Abstract acceptance closes and first agenda draft will be completed |
| 15 April 2025 | Registration deadline and start of Ifremer security process |
| 17-20 June 2025 | Meeting |
Date and Time
The COSS-TT meeting will be organised on June 2025 within the week of 17-20 June 2025 (tentative dates). It will be hosted by Ifremer in Brest, France.
Registration and abstract submission
The abstract submission will be organised by OceanPredict while the registration will be organized separately at a later time by Ifremer as it includes the collection of secure information (see below).
Security information on entering the venue
Entering Ifremer premises requires all participants to be security checked. We are planning to inform registered participants before the event to allow time for this process. It is likely to include providing documents to Ifremer security, like your passport. More information will be provided closer to the time of the event.
Costs
The event will be free of charge. A workshop dinner will be sponsored by Ifremer.
Attendees
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.
Agenda
The meeting agenda will be published after abstracts have been submitted and a schedule has been created.
Themes
The themes covered by this meeting are listed below.
When submitting an abstract please match it to one or more of these themes. The registration and abstract submission form will provide for this.
- The observing infrastructure in the coastal seas, its integration with ocean model, prediction and forecast systems
- Ocean modelling at the regional and shelf sea spatial scales and seamless integration with larger-scale estimates
- The land-ocean continuum: integration of models for coastal ocean and estuaries/deltas/wetlands, including effects on urban built environments/coastal cities
- Coastal projections and scenarios, coastal vulnerability, wave and storm surge impacts in the coastal zone
- AI/ML applications in the coastal ocean prediction
- User applications and decision tools in the coastal ocean (including Digital Twins)
- The role of the COSS-TT in the UN Ocean Decade and beyond
Meeting Format
The workshop will take place over 4 days starting on Tue afternoon (17 June 2025) and closing on Fri lunch time (20 June 2025). It will be hosted by Ifremer at Plouzané, near Brest, France.
The meeting will be an in-person meeting. Streaming is being considered. We expect about 50-80 participants.
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.
- We are planning to open the COSS-TT 2025 Special Issue in Ocean Dynamics after the meeting.
Venue
The COSS-TT meeting will take place from 17-20 June 2025 at
Ifremer, 1625 Rte de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané (near Brest), France
Accommodation and local information
Hotel bookings should be made in good time before the meeting as another large event is happening in Brest at the same time.
Ifremer may be reached from Brest city center using public transportation or taxi.
Details can be found here.
Organising Committee
Local hosts and organizers
Local hosts: (contacts for practical meeting organization questions)
- Guillaume Charria, guillaume.charria_at ifremer.fr
- Audrey Mallejac (Ifremer, France)
COSS-TT co-chairs: (contacts for scientific/agenda-related questions)
- Pierre De Mey Frémaux, pierre.de-mey_at_cnrs.fr
- Villy Kourafalou, vkourafalou_at_rsmas.miami.edu
- Alexander Kurapov, alexander.kurapov_at_noaa.gov
- Joanna Staneva, joanna.staneva_at_hereon.de
GOV programme office : (contact for website-related questions)
- Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, kirsten.wilmer-becker_at_metoffice.gov.uk
- Stéphanie Cuven, scuven_at_mercator-ocean.fr