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Presentations and keynotes at Challenger 150

Posted: 6 September 2022
Challenger at St. Paul’s Rocks by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson – <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88401155">Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin: 4531, public domain.</a>

Over 70 representatives from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will discuss key ocean issues at Challenger Society Conference 2022, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Challenger expedition and celebrates the birth of international and interdisciplinary oceanography.

Challenger 150: The Challenger Society Conference 2022

Posted: 4 July 2022
Challenger at St. Paul’s Rocks by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson – <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88401155">Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin: 4531, public domain.</a>

The Challenger Society Conference 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the Challenger expedition and celebrates the birth of international and interdisciplinary oceanography.

To find out more about the conference visit the event page.

Portrait of first ship to circumnavigate the globe for ocean research presented to the National Oceanography Centre

Posted: 19 November 2021
Martin Bosher handing over the framed print of the HMS Challenger to Professor Ed Hill at the NOC

A framed print of a previously unknown detailed watercolour painting of the famous ship, HMS Challenger by George Cochrane Kerr in c1890, was presented to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton today (Friday 19 November).

The earliest round-the-world marine research voyages give new insights on climate change

Posted: 27 April 2021
A map of the world which shows the tracks of HMS Challenger (black) and SMS Gazelle (yellow) with the global salinity pattern

For the first time, scientists have used ocean measurements taken on research voyages almost 150 years ago to learn more about how human activity has impacted climate change.