Please consider submitting your abstract to our session at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 22-27, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland! We are interested especially in ecological work conducted from autonomous platforms, from phytoplankton to whales. Autonomous ocean platform applications in biological oceanography and wildlife ecology Autonomous ocean platforms (e.g., gliders, buoys, moorings, floats) and their sensors have been proliferating in the last decade. Sensors that measure organisms and biological processes are commercially available and many new studies have been published on their application to studying ocean biology in the last five years. Bioacoustics, bio-optics, imaging and video camera devices mounted on autonomous platforms are able to collect information on ocean wildlife in the water column in parts of the ocean that were not accessible before. New and improved sensors are emerging as both platforms and sensors become more efficient, particularly in power consumption, allowing for longer and deeper deployments that sample biology at new space-time scales. Examples include censusing phytoplankton and zooplankton, detecting tagged or sound-producing taxa, and studying food web, predator-prey and habitat-use dynamics. This session invites presentations on research and development into the application of autonomous vehicles and their sensors to biological oceanography and marine ecology. Topics may include, but are not limited to: primary and secondary production; phytoplankton, zooplankton or vertebrate ecology; passive acoustic monitoring; microbial ecology and deep sea ecology. https://agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/prelim.cgi/Session/255043 Feel free to reach out with questions to Dr. Erin Meyer-Gutbrod at emgutbrod@seoe.sc.edu -- Dr. Erin L. Meyer-Gutbrod *(she/her)* Assistant Professor School of the Earth, Ocean & Environment University of South Carolina https://meyer-gutbrod.weebly.com/ emgutbrod@seoe.sc.edu 216-548-9082