The world's leading experts in ocean modelling meet in Mallorca
The symposium takes place from June 2 to 5 at the Port Center of the Port Authority and brings together 61 researchers and observational scientists
PalmaPalma hosts for the first time in Spain the most important meeting for the scientific community dedicated to ocean modeling, the 16th edition of the International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2026).
The symposium, organized with the support of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Imedea (CSIC-UIB), takes place from June 2nd to 5th at the Port Center of the Port Authority and brings together 61 researchers and observational scientists from 14 countries. The previous edition was held in Stanford (California).
The meeting also hosts the competition for the Outstanding Young Scientist (OYSA) awards and the presented works can be included in a special edition of the journal Ocean Dynamics.
The inaugural ceremony, held this Tuesday, June 2nd, was attended by the director of Imedea, Alejandro Orfila; the president of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands, Javier Sanz, and the vice-rector for Scientific Policy and Research of the UIB, Victor Homar.
The program is structured into four blocks:
- Tuesday, June 2nd: From eddies to ocean fronts: Mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics and ocean mixing.
- Wednesday, June 3: Earth system modeling: Ocean-atmosphere-waves-sea ice and extreme events.
- Thursday, June 4: Nonlinear Oceans: Instabilities, Coherent Structures, and Applications.
- Friday, June 5: High-resolution modeling for coastal and operational oceanography: Hazards, transport, and management.
Among the participants in the meeting are: Baylor Fox-Kemper, Emilio Hernández-García, and Joanna Staneva.
Fox-Kemper is an ocean physicist at Brown University. He studies the physics of the ocean and its role in the Earth's climate system. Hernández-García is a physicist and research professor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), where he leads and collaborates on projects on oceanic transport, ecological modeling, and climate variability. Staneva is a senior scientist and head of the Department of Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation at the Institute for Coastal Systems of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, in Geesthacht, Germany, where she leads research on multi-scale ocean modeling, coastal risks, and the development of Digital Ocean Twins (DTO).
