On March 8 every year we celebrate the International Women’s Day all over the world. Of course it is not about excluding men, it is about celebrating and empowering women in our ocean science.
As we commemorate Women’s Day recently, it is an opportunity to honour the vital and endless contributions made by our women scientists to our ocean science.
We note the theme “Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow” adopted this year by the United Nations. At INOS, we are about inspiring the younger generations to go for a career in ocean science, irrespective of race and gender. Diversity is important. Don’t believe us? Science has proven that research benefits from a more diverse workforce.
We share here some photos of our women scientists making waves in ocean science.
Copyright © INOS | Institute of Oceanography and Environment | Universiti Malaysia Terenganu | 2024. All rights reserved.
Abstract
While the sinking formation of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is well understood, how this bottom water "returns home" through upwelling within ocean basins, particularly the Indo-Pacific, remains shrouded in uncertainty. In the 1960s, Munk’s classic "Abyssal Recipes" theory sought to explain these abyssal flows, yet later observations exposed two significant conflicts with real-world data. In 2016, Ferrari, McDougall, and colleagues proposed the "Towards a New Abyssal Recipe" framework, introducing bottom boundary layer (BBL) upwelling to address Munk’s inconsistencies. Drawing on recent evidence of a potential cooling trend in the deep ocean, this talk revisits these debates, offering a fresh interpretation of Munk’s discrepancies and proposing a new mechanism for abyssal upwelling in the Indo-Pacific. It contributes to the ongoing quest to unravel how bottom waters complete their global journey.
Presented by: Prof. Dr. HAN Lei
Affiliation: China-ASEAN College of Marine Science, Xiamen University, Malaysia
Address: Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
This will close in 0 seconds
