Course Programme

The 2025 school will bring together 30 - 40 PhD students and early career scientists and approximately 16 pre-eminent international scientists. A balanced geographic and gender representation will be respected.

The course programme is created by the school Directors and approved by the Scientific Committee. The school will be implemented as follows: three days of lectures followed by three days of field work, practical workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities, concluding with a final two days of lectures, reporting on fieldwork, and presentations.

Lecture topics around the issues of ocean deoxygenation and acidification will include:

Introductions to ocean deoxygenation and acidification
Coastal and open ocean deoxygenation
Biological responses to deoxygenation and acidification
Observing systems for deoxygenation and acidification
Physical and biological settings of the local marine environment of Penang
Prediction and modeling of future deoxygenation and acidification
Perspectives from paleoenvironments
Data management of biogeochemical data
Ecosystem modeling
International coordination and frameworks
Scientific communication with stakeholders
Ethics in science

Poster sessions on days 2 and 3 will give students the chance to get to know each other and their individual research topics.

During the final day of the school, each student will give a 5 min presentation for all attendees as part of the Practical Workshop on Communication. We will deliver Rewards for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation at the end of the School.

The below schedule is subject to change.

Tentative Schedule

Time	Day 1, 4 Nov, Tues	Day 2, 5 Nov, Wed	Day 3, 6 Nov, Thurs	Day 4, 7 Nov, Fri	Day 5, 8 Nov, Sat	Day 6, 9 Nov, Sun	Day 7, 10, Nov, Mon	Day 8, 11 Nov, Tues
9:00		Lecture 4: Introduction to multiple ocean stressors - Sam Dupont	Lecture 10: Predicting future ocean oxygen and acidification - Andreas Oschlies	*Groups 1 and 2* *08:30: Sampling onboard* *Groups 3 and 4* *08:30 Pre-sampled analysis and Biology lab* *- Practical instructors and summer school lecturers as appropriate*	*Blue Carbon and Biodiversity (BCB) field trip* *- Practical instructors and summer school lecturers as appropriate*	*Trip to Georgetown*	Lecture 15: Science communication: How to interact with press, social media, and NGOs - Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, TBD	Group and student presentations
9:30
10:00		*Tea break*	*Tea break*				*Tea break*	*Tea break*
10:30	Arrival Penang National Park - Boat to the centre	Lecture 5: Open ocean oxygen loss - Ivonne Montes	Lecture 11: What and how can we learn from the past? - Babette Hoogakker				*Exercise: Message box*	Group and student presentations
11:00
11:30	Check-in	Lecture 6: Coastal deoxygenation and acidification - Natalya Gallo	Lecture 12: Data QC/QA of biogeochemical data - Tobias Steinhoff				Lecture 16: Ethics - Véronique Garçon
12:00				Return to Centre	Return to Centre
12:30	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch (own expense in Georgetown)*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*
13:00
13:30	Welcome by summer school directors - Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, Véronique Garçon, Minhan Dai	Lecture 7: Biological response to deoxygenation and ocean acidification - Denise Breitburg, Andrew Altieri	Lecture 13: Biogeochemical modelling - Samantha Siedlecki	*Groups 1 and 2* *13:30: Sampling analysis and Biology lab* *Groups 3 and 4* *13:30: Sampling onboard* *All: 15:30 (TBD): Tea break* *Groups 1 and 2* *16:00: Sampling analysis and Biology lab* *Groups 1, 2 and 3* *17:30 Free* *- Practical instructors and summer school lecturers as appropriate*	*Groups 1 and 2* *13:30: Modelling practical* *Groups 3 and 4* *13:30: Blue Carbon analysis* *All: 15:00 (TBD): Tea break* *Groups 1 and 2* *15:30: Modelling* *16:30: BCB Analysis* *Groups 3 and 4* *15:30: BCB Analysis* *16:30: Modelling* *- Practical instructors and summer school lecturers as appropriate*	*All* *1500: Travel back to CEMACS* *1600: Stakeholder engagement: Green Mariculture* *- Practical instructors and summer school lecturers as appropriate*	Lecture 17: Ocean Decade, OARS and GOOD, international frameworks - Kirsten Isensee	Group and student presentations
14:00
							*Working session on reports*
14:30	Lecture 1: Introduction to deoxygenation - Minhan Dai, Gil Jacinto	Lecture 8: Designing an observation system to track deoxygenation and ocean acidification - Véronique Garçon	Lecture 14: Remote sensing of the ocean - Chen Shuangling
15:00
15:30	*Tea break*	*Tea break*	*Tea break*				*Tea break*	*Tea break*
16:00	Lecture 2: Introduction to ocean acidification - Sam Dupont	Lecture 9: Local environment Focus - Physical setting - Aileen Tan Shau Hwai	Introduction to practicals					Closing Presentations
16:30
17:00	Lecture 3: Local Environment Focus - Biology - Sazlina Salleh	Poster snapshots	Poster snapshots
17:30		*Group 2: Comms practical*	*Group 3: Comms practical*
18:00	*Group 1: Comms practical*			*Group 4: Comms practical*