The polar oceans are among the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions on Earth, with profound implications for ocean circulation, carbon cycling, and marine ecosystems. In these regions, physical drivers such as ocean circulation, sea ice dynamics, and atmospheric variability strongly influence ecosystem structure and function across spatial and temporal scales. Understanding the complex interactions between oceanic processes and ecosystem dynamics in the Southern and Arctic Oceans, and predicting the response to future change, requires integrated modelling approaches that span disciplines and scales.

This session invites contributions that use a modelling approach to explore how coupled physical oceanographic and biological processes influence ecosystem dynamics in the polar oceans across a range of spatial and temporal scales. We welcome studies using both Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks, and studies that explore both current system behaviour and the prediction of the response to future change. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to: physical drivers of biological hotspots; coupled ocean-ecosystem responses to changes in sea ice and ocean temperature; challenges in representation of biological behaviour; applications to fisheries and ecosystem-based management in polar regions.

• High Latitude Environments -
• Marine Ecology and Biodiversity -
• Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller -