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Asilomar Hotel and Conference Center is the venue for ECCO’s 2025 Summer School. The grounds offer 107 gorgeous acres of ecologically diverse beachfront land.
Asilomar Hotel and Conference Center is the venue for ECCO’s 2025 Summer School. The grounds offer 107 gorgeous acres of ecologically diverse beachfront land.
 ECCO Summer School 2025
[May 19-30, 2025]

Join us for an in-person, hands-on exploration of ocean state estimation, held from May 19 to May 30, 2025, in the beautiful coastal setting of the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California.

The ECCO Summer School program will blend lectures, interactive tutorials, peer-to-peer learning, and collaborative team projects to provide a deep dive into the principles, products, applications of ocean state estimation.

Taught by leading experts, the course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scientists eager to advance their understanding of ocean and climate science. Attendance is free, and limited travel support is available.  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, collaborate, and engage with the cutting edge of ocean research!


Learn more here >>

Apply here (until March 10, 2025) >>
Decisions will be made on or before March 24th


Instruction Team

Jean-Michel Campin (MIT)
Dustin Carroll (San José State Univ. / Moss Marine Landing Laboratories)
Paola Cessi (UC San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Ian Fenty (Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Severine Fournier (Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Ichiro Fukumori (Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Gael Forget (MIT)
Shreyas Gaikwad (Univ. Texas at Austin)
Chris Hill (MIT)
Chris Piecuch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Matt Mazloff (UC San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Dimitris Menemenlis (Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Galen McKinley (Columbia Univ. / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
An Nguyen (Univ. Texas at Austin)
Helen Pillar (Univ. Texas at Austin)
Sarah Purkey (UC San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Ou Wang (Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Mike Wood (San José State Univ. / Moss Marine Landing Laboratories)