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		Talk 4: Coastal deoxygenation and acidification - Natalya Gallo	Talk 10: Predicting future ocean oxygen and acidification - Andreas Oschlies	*Groups 1 and 2* *08:30: Sampling onboard* *Groups 3 and 4* *08:30 Sampling analysis (pre-sampled)* Return to Centre	*All* *08:30: Stakeholder engagement: Green Mariculture*	*Biodiversity and Blue Carbon field trip*	Talk 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	Talk 5: Open ocean oxygen loss - Ivonne Montes	Talk 11: What and how can we learn from the past? Paleo - Babette Hoogakker				*Exercise: Message box*
11:00
11:30	Check-in	Talk 6: Biological response to deoxygenation and ocean acidification - Denise Breitburg, Andrew Altieri	Talk 12: Data QC/QA of biogeochemical data - Tobias Steinhoff				Talk 16: Ethics - Véronique Garçon
12:00						Return to Centre
12:30	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*
13:00
13:30	Welcome by summer school directors - Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, Véronique Garçon, Minhan Dai	Talk 7: Designing an observation system to track deoxygenation and ocean acidification - Véronique Garçon	Talk 13: Biogeochemical modelling - Samantha Siedlecki	*Groups 1 and 2* *13:30: Sampling analysis* *Groups 3 and 4* *13:30: Sampling onboard* *15:30 (TBD): Tea break* *Group 1* *17:30 Free* *Groups 2 and 3* *17:30 Biology lab practical*	Free afternoon: Trip to Georgetown	*Groups 1 and 2* *13:30: Modelling practical* *Groups 3 and 4* *13:30: Blue Carbon analysis* *15:00 (TBD): Tea break* *Groups 1 and 2* *15:30: Blue Carbon analysis* *Groups 3 and 4* *15:30: Modelling practical* *Groups 1 and 4* *17:30 Biology lab practical* *Groups 2 and 3* *17:30: Free*	*Working session on reports*
14:00
14:30	Talk 1: Introduction to deoxygenation - Minhan Dai, Gil Jacinto	Talk 8: Local environment focus physical setting, pt 1 - Aileen Tan Shau Hwai	Talk 14: Ocean Decade, OARS and GOOD, international frameworks - Kirsten Isensee
15:00
15:30	*Tea break*	*Tea break*	*Tea break*				*Tea break*	*Tea break*
16:00	Talk 2: Introduction to ocean acidification - Jan Newton	Talk 9: Local Environment - focus biology, pt 2 - Sazlina Salleh	Introduction to practicals
16:30
17:00	Talk 3: Introduction to multiple ocean stressors - Sam Dupont	Poster snapshots	Poster snapshots
17:30		*Group 2: Comms practical*	*Group 3: Comms practical*
18:00	*Group 1: Comms practical*			*Group 4: Comms practical*