AMBIO provides a technical forum for students, educators, researchers and governmental and industrial partners with shared interests in marine biogeochemistry. Our mission is to:
- Communicate and facilitate the proposal of strategic research, infrastructure development and collaboration;
- Connect Early Career Researchers (ECRs) with the UK-marine biogeochemical network;
- Enable access to mentoring across institutions for early- and mid-career marine biogeochemists;
- Disseminate recent advances in marine biogeochemistry through the biennial AMBIO science meetings;
- Promote ECRs and celebrate important contributors to marine biogeochemistry through awards, recognition and social engagements at AMBIO meetings;
- Engage other Special Interest Groups for the benefit of cross-disciplinary research.
How can you get involved in the SIG?
Please follow this link to join our mailing list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=AMBIO-CHALLENGER&A=1
Follow us on Twitter: @ChallengerAMBIO
Last AMBIO SIG Meeting
The 2023 AMBIO conference was held from September 6th – 8th 2023 at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, with the following sessions:
- Biogeochemistry and Marine Autonomy
- The Cutting Edge of Biogeochemical Observations and Modelling
- The Future of GEOTRACES
- Marine Biogeochemistry at the Sediment-Water Interface
You can read about the meeting in the Ocean Challenge issue from Winter 2023 (https://www.challenger-society.org.uk/oceanchallenge/2023_27_1.pdf).
If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact us (details below).
Sarah and Tereza
sarah.reynolds@port.ac.uk
t.jarnikova@uea.ac.uk
Townhall Meeting and ECR Networking Event at the Challenger150 Meeting, September 5th 2022, Natural History Museum London.
Biogeochemistry Across Boundaries - a celebration of Professor Tim Jickells
AMBIO held a half-day Town Hall event after the 2018 Challenger Society Conference in Newcastle. Minutes from this meeting are available here, and include our latest SIG developments, present national capability and strategic funding opportunities, plans for AMBIO IX and identified actions for our members. Thanks to all who supported this event and to those who did so remotely but could not attend on the day.
Links to past meetings
AMBIO VIII - The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), September 6th-8th, 2017. You can read a summary of this event on the Challenger blog page.
AMBIO VII - University of Oxford, January 6th-8th, 2016. You can read a summary of this event here.
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