Challenger Society History of Oceanography SIG Webinars
The Challenger Society Special Interest Group on the History of Oceanography will be having a series of zoom webinars in 2025. The talks will be at 5pm UK time on Wednesday evenings (3rd Wed of the month):
15 January 2025: Philip Pearson: Remembered Lives, The Remarkable Seamen of the Challenger Expedition.
19 February 2025: David Bowers, University of Bangor: The Loch Ness Monastery: a Tale of Edwardian Scientists and Monks.
19 March 2025: John Gould, National Oceanography Centre: From Swallow Floats to Argo, 50 years of Technology Development.
16 April 2025: Gwyn Griffiths, National Oceanography Centre: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in the Polar Regions: The First Fifty Years.
21 May 2025: Jo Williams, National Oceanography Centre: Using Citizen Science to Rescue Historical Tide Gauge Data.
17 September 2025: Gillen D'Arcy Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: The Wake of HMS Challenger.
You can join the first one by Philip Pearson by using the link below (the link might be
different for each talk so watch out for email updates):
https://ukri.zoom.us/j/96081319642?pwd=CxLBht0eoU5jCz1qfOaFucWgvvpIGb.1
More information on the History of Oceanography SIG, and details of how to join, can be found here.