Report of the 7th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO; June 1-5, 2015, Canberra, Australia)

SARCCM is very pleased to announce that 7th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO; June 1-5, 2015, Canberra, Australia) was a great success. IWMO 2015 was organized by SARCCM, and sponsored by CSIRO, Canberra Convention Bureau/Think Canberra, ARC Centre for Excellence/Climate System Science, UNSW Canberra and SARCCM. The number of participants was 80 and 70 papers were submitted from 16 countries around the world. A Young Earth Scientist (YES) committee was established. A daily Q & A time allowed questions from YES to senior scientists during the lunch breaks. YES also proposed a formal session to discuss research between young scientists/students and senior scientists for the next IWMO. This year’s Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA) winners are as follows: Adrean Webb (1st prize), Alice Barthel (2nd prize), and Nicola Maher (3rd prize). Best presentations prizes were also established this year and they went to Leo Oey (1st prize), Huijie Xue (2nd prize), and the trio Kial Stewart, Adrean Webb, and Mao Cheng Huang who shared 3rd prize. Next year, 2016, the 8th IWMO will be held at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Program and Abstracts for IWMO-2015 are available at: http://issuu.com/triciahopkins9/docs/iwmo2015_program_and_abstracts?e=0/13177754