New Date – 6-10 September 2021
Challenger 2020 has been postponed by 12 months due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. We look forward to welcoming you in 2021.
Scottish Association for Marine Science, located just outside Oban, on Scotland's west coast.
1Listen to an inspirational selection of international speakers discussing cutting edge science
3Attended by over 300 leading UK marine scientists and science managers
2Join one of the many Specialist Interest Group meetings taking place during the conference.
4National Oceanography Centre, UK
Penny is a physical oceanographer and her research has focused on the circulation and variability of the subpolar North Atlantic, and the role of the ocean in our changing climate. She has participated in 21 seagoing expeditions, several as Chief Scientist.
Penny is Associate Head of the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group at the NOC, and is the UK principal investigator for an international programme researching the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation strength, variability and mechanisms (OSNAP).
She holds the role of Science Coordinator for CLASS, a world-leading UK Atlantic science programme supporting national and global strategic needs.
She supervises graduate students, and coordinates a UK early career scientist fellowship scheme to fund access to berths on research expeditions and visits to research centres.
GEOMAR
Andreas Oschlies is Professor of Marine Biogeochemical Modelling at GEOMAR and the University of Kiel, Germany. Having studied Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg and Cambridge, he moved into Oceanography for a PhD in Kiel and worked as PostDoc in Toulouse, Assistant Professor in Kiel and Professor of Physical Oceanography in Southampton, before moving back to Kiel in 2006.
His research interests include the global carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycles, their sensitivities to environmental change, and the development and quality assessment of numerical models appropriate to investigate these.
He leads the Collaborative Research Centre "Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean" (SFB754) and the Priority Program “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?” (SPP1689), both funded by the German Research Foundation.
Ocean Frontier Institute
Dr. Waite was appointed Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean) of Dalhousie University and Scientific Director of Ocean Frontier Institute commencing Sept. 1, 2018. Previously, she served as Section Head of Polar Biological Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and as Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Biology at the University of Bremen.
Her current interests include nitrogen fluxes in polar oceans and particle dynamics in mesoscale eddies, and she is on the Project Board for the 2019-20 Arctic ice-drift program MOSAiC.
Dr. Waite was Board Member of the American Association for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) from 2011 to 2014, and she currently serves on the Editorial Board of Limnology and Oceanography and as Proxy Editor-in-Chief. She is international advisor to the Board of Directors of the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre ACE CRC in Hobart, Australia, a member of the Norwegian Research Council Advisory Board, and a member of the Programme Advisory Group for the NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Research Programme. She is co-chair of the SCOR Working Group on biological observation systems, “P-OBS.” She has been on the Steering Committee of the Southern Ocean Observation System (SOOS) since 2017 and on the SOOS Executive Committee since 2018.
SUBMISSIONS
The Science sessions for this years conference are now available. Please submit your abstracts and register via our third party conference software.
The Challenger Society’s biannual marine science conference has been postponed by
We are chartering two buses to take delegates from Glasgow Central
Delegates can now submit abstracts online! Please submit your abstract here.
The fee includes the 3 day conference with conference materials, refreshments, lunches, 'Welcome drinks reception' and other activities.
If you are NOT already a Challenger Society Member and wish to join before you pay, you can do so here.
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is Scotland's premier independent marine science organisation generating new knowledge for the benefit of the marine environment and society since 1884.
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Oban- pronounced “OH-bin”- is located on Scotland’s west coast, in the ancient Gaelic district of Lorn and council of Argyll & Bute.
Oban is well known as the Seafood Capital of Scotland and the Gateway to the Isles. But there is so much more to discover, from world-class historical attractions to exhilarating water sports to vibrant Gaelic culture.
