On 1 September 2026， Dr. Haiyan Sun delivered a Frontier Lecture titled Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: How Open Science Empowers Early-Career Researchers, discussing how open science benefits researchers at the early stage of their careers.

Dr. Xiang Lian presented another Frontier Lecture, Cracking the publishing code, Insight from Elsevier Oceanography journals, sharing professional insights on paper publishing based on experience from Elsevier’s oceanography journals.
 

Prof. Fangli Qiao gave a Training Lecture named New generation ocean to climate coupled models and their applications, introducing the new generation ocean-climate coupled models and relevant application scenarios.

Dr. Bernardo Reduto Leal’s Frontier Lecture, From Simulations to Stories: Your Role in Ocean Literacy, focused on ocean literacy and researchers’ roles in communicating ocean knowledge.
 

The final Frontier Lecture of the session was presented by Dr. Shweta Naik, with the topic How Do We Rethink the Earth? Rethinking Our Place on an Ocean Planet?, inviting audiences to reconsider Earth and humanity’s position on this ocean-dominated planet.