We are thrilled to have participated in the 2-day Kickoff meeting Nov 3 & 4, 2023 for the NOPP-Global Internal Waves. Representatives from all 6 groups were in attendance at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the meeting. The Kickoff included breakout groups focussing on zeroing in on the various tasks that we are going to accomplish during this NOPP.

We were lucky to include some valuable additional speakers to give us more information about:

• SMODE (Tom Farrar, WHOI),
• SWOT cal/val (Jinbo Wang, JPL),
• NSF-funded BLT (Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, SIO),
• ONR-funded TFO acoustics (John Colosi, NPS) and
• Biophysical interactions (Mara Freilich, SIO)