Ocean Acidification Week 2025
OA Week is a virtual multi-day forum highlighting ocean acidification knowledge from around the world. Stay tuned for more information about opportunities to get involved, session topics, speakers, and more!
Monday 13 October - Friday 17 October 2025
Goals
Rising to the challenge of ocean acidification: using science and knowledge to drive action
OA Week debuted in 2020, and returned in 2021, when events and conferences were postponed due to COVID-19. Following the successful in-person Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in 2022, GOA-ON brought back OA Week in 2023 to maintain momentum around OA research and provide a virtual platform for the ocean acidification community to exchange their latest findings. Since then, OA Week has been an annual GOA-ON tradition with an overarching goal of strengthening cross-regional connections and collaboration among the OA research community.
This virtual symposium will bring together researchers around the world with sessions, plenary speakers, and engaging discussions about ocean acidification research. If you have specific questions or suggestions, please contact us at secretariat@goa-on.org.
Image Credit: Kimberly Jeffries/ Ocean Image Bank
Schedule
OA Week will be held virtually from 13 - 17 October 2025. As we near the event, check back here to view a detailed schedule of OA Week sessions.
Previous OA Weeks
Excited to dive in? You can view sessions from previous OA Weeks on the GOA-ON Youtube Channel.
Coordinators
The GOA-ON Secretariat is tremendously grateful for the support with the organisation of OA Week 2025. Our OA Week Coordinators, Magak Adel, Maisy Lus, and Molly Phillips, are assisting with session and speaker organisation. ICONEC Steering Committee member Natalie del Carmen Bravo Senmache is the OA Week Graphic Designer, creating the visuals for OA Week.
Meet our amazing OA Week Coordinators:
Magak Adell
Magak Adell is a marine geologist working on the Kenyan Coast Seascape currently serving as the lead partner in the Global Coast Pilot Sites, Kenya. An initiative under the Ocean Decade Program Coast Predict and lead by CMCC Foundation, Magak's area of research revolves around three primary impact areas:
Impact Area 1: Capacity in disaster risk reduction through real-time forecasting of extreme events including, but not limited to, sea level, marine heat waves, algal biomass blooms and oxygen at coastal scales and mCDR work. Impact Area 3: Prevention and mitigation of pollution impacts through pollution hazard/risk mapping and forecasting at coastal scales including, but not limited to, loss of biodiversity, human health, etc. Impact Area 7: Sustainable food production through coastal mariculture support system....My research work drives action by integrating science and knowledge towards the rising challenge of ocean acidification
Maisy Lus
Maisy Lus is a MSc Applied Marine Science student at the University of Plymouth. Her work spans blue carbon ecosystems, ocean acidification, and nature-based coastal protection, with field experience in mangrove restoration and reef-island resilience. She is the founder of the Coastline Care Project in Papua New Guinea and serves as Executive Director for Fish Reef Project PNG, driving community-led marine conservation. Maisy is passionate about empowering coastal communities and fostering international collaboration to safeguard ocean health.
Molly Phillips
Molly Phillips is a final year PhD researcher from University of Southampton, UK. Her work involves the development and deployment of a novel autonomous total alkalinity sensor; a multidisciplinary mix of engineering and marine biogeochemistry. Molly is passionate about making marine research accessible to her community, and has created courses and festival exhibits to engage the public with ocean science.
Natalie del Carmen Bravo Senmache
Natalie del Carmen Bravo Senmache graduated in Biology, with a focus in Fisheries Biology, based at the Pedro Ruiz Gallo National University in Lambayeque, Peru. Her work has focused on the carbonate system in coastal areas and the impacts of acidification, and other stressors, on calcifying organisms. Additionally, she has used biology and ecology to inform the management of marine resources and search for adaptation and mitigation alternatives in response to climate change. In parallel to her academic work, she also dedicated herself to supporting initiatives to strengthen networks and capacities through her participation in International Carbon Ocean Network for Early Career (ICONEC), Research Network of Marine-Coastal Stressors in Latin America and the Caribbean (REMARCO), and the Peruvian Oceanography network and most recently as the representative of Peru/Ecuador and Early Career in Latin American Ocean Acidification Network (LAOCA) Executive Council.