OCEAN ICE at EPOC Annual Meeting 

In Early October, Elaine McDonagh from WP5 joined the EPOC annual meeting that met in Bergen, Norway. Elaine introduced OCEAN ICE to the group and enjoyed listening to the science talks. While the focus of EPOC is in the North and OCEAN ICE is in the South there are overlaps. These include the EPOC analysis of heat and freshwater that reaches to the south Atlantic SAMBA array to which OCEAN ICE is adding instruments and undertaking an analysis of multi decadal regional change the bi-polar interaction of sea-ice formation and its interaction with deep water formation: a key part of OCEAN ICE and an emerging metric in EPOC.