The Challenger Medal

Harry Bryden

The Challenger Medal is the premier award of the Society. The award is for a distinguished UK marine scientist or other person who has made a single major contribution, or a sustained contribution, to the development of marine science, or whose innovation has opened up new perspectives. The medal is presented on the occasion of the Challenger Lecture by the recipient during the Challenger Society biennial meeting.

Challenger fellowships

Mark Moore, NOC
Will Homoky, University of Oxford

Fellowships are awarded to early career-stage marine scientists who are members of the Challenger Society, for their achievements and promise in a branch of marine sciences: marine biology, marine chemistry, marine geology and marine physics.

Norman Heaps prize for best early career talk

Mike Blackett, University of Southampton and SAHFOS

The Norman Heaps prize was first awarded in 1988, and is awarded for the best oral presentation by an early-career stage non-established scientist.

Mike Blackett's presentation was on 'Long-term variability of the calycophoran siphonophores Muggiaea atlantica and M. kochi in the Western English Channel'

Cath Allen prize for best poster

Eleanor Jameson, University of Warwick

For the best poster presentation at the Challenger biennial meeting. The Best Poster Prize was first awarded in 1988 and was renamed in the honour Cath Allen, a research scientist at POL in 1991.

Eleanor Jameson's poster was entitled 'Data-mining bacterial pathways of TMA production'

IMarEST prize for best poster on operational oceanography

Hemanaden Runghen, Mauritius Oceanography Institute

The poster was on "Managing geophysical data in the South West Indian Ocean using GeoMapApp".

IMarEST Tripartite Undergraduate Award

Christine Mckenna, University of St Andrews

Christina was awarded this prize for her dissertation “A reconstruction of water mass distributions in the Faroe-Shetland Channel using Parametric Optimum Multi-Parameter analysis” written while studying her BSc Geography and Mathematics.

Dr. Bee Berx, her sponsor, collected the award on her behalf as she was unable to attend the dinner.

MBA prize for the best poster by a student

Natalie Wager, UEA  

The poster was on "Distribution of sea surface nitrous oxide and methane in the Atlantic Ocean".

Tripartite award winner

Christine McKenna, University of S Andrews

This prize given by IMarEST, SUT and the Challenger Society.

Dissertation title: A reconstruction of water mass distributions in the Faroe-Shetland Channel using Parametric Optimum Multi-Parameter analysis. Course: BSc Geography and Mathematics.

President’s photographic competition

Robert Cook, Heriot Watt University

For the best photograph on a designated theme. This year’s theme was “Interaction with marine science”. The President's Prize was introduced in 1994 (President Dr Brian McCartney).