Meeting Prizes

Three Challenger Society Prizes are awarded at each biennial Marine Sciences meeting.

• The Norman Heaps Prize
  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.
  
   
• The Cath Allen Prize
  The Best Poster Prize was first awarded in 1988 and was renamed in the honour Cath Allen, a research scientist at POL in 1991.
  
   
• The President's Photographic Competition
  The President's Prize for the best Photograph on a designated theme was introduced in 1994 (President Dr Brian McCartney)
  
   
• The Challenger Prize
  The Challenger prize was awarded to the best Open University Oceanography student.

Previous prizes:

2010

• The Norman Heaps prize : Loic Jullion, National Oceanography Centre
• The Cath Allen Prize : John Prytherch, National Oceanography Centre
• The President’s Photographic Competition: Loic Jullion, National Oceanography Centre (Cold, wet and salty deployment in the Southern Ocean) (topic was ‘ Marine Scientists at work’)
• The Challenger / IMarEst / SUT undergraduate dissertation prize (£500) : Anna Belcher, University of Southampton (supervisor Eric Achterberg)

2008

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Patrick Martin, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Emily Venables, Scottish Association for Marine Science; Claire Hughes, University of East Anglia; Alberto Naviera Garabato, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Undergoing check
• The Cath Allen Prize: Jonathan Sharples, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
• The President's Photographic Competition: Phil Williamson, University of East Anglia (Crossing the Dee estuary) (topic was 'Sea and Sky')
• The Sarah Jones Prize for best poster or talk relating to “particles in the sea”: Tom Rippeth, Bangor University

2006

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Anna Hickman, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
• The Cath Allen Prize: Claire Postlethwaite, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
• The Presidents Competition: Peter Miller (whale skull)   (topic 'Flotsam and jetsam')

2004

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Sally Thorpe, British Antarctic Survey; Alberto Naveira-Garabato, University of East Anglia.
• The Cath Allen Prize: Sandy Thomalla, Southampton Oceanography Centre.
• Four posters were highly commended: Tom Bell, University of East Anglia; Claire Holeton, Southampton Oceanography Centre; Toby Tyrrell, Southampton Oceanography Centre; James Percival, University of Reading.
• The Presidents Competition: Colin Stevens, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (Time and Tide)

2002

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Alex Mustard, Ian Wilkington, Katherine Wood
• The Cath Allen Prize: Katy Shannon, Will leQuesne
• The Presidents Competition: Alex Mustard

2000

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Ekaterina Popova, Southampton Oceanography Centre; Andy Ridgewell, University of East Anglia.
• The Cath Allen Prize: Melanie Witt
• The Presidents Competition: Clare Postlethwaite, Southampton Oceanography Centre 'Searching for a previously marked sea-ice sampling station on Saromake, a frozen sea lagoon on the Okhotsk Sea coast of Japan'
• The Challenger Prize: Marion Ricketts

1998

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Susan Adcock, University of Reading; Alex Nimmo-Smith, Southampton University.
• The Cath Allen Prize: Sally Thorpe, University of East Anglia.
• The Presidents Competition: Alex Nimmo-Smith, Southampton University 'An inquisitive tom-pot blenny peeps out from a sponge encrusted cliff'

1996

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Stephen Marsh, University of East Anglia.
• The Cath Allen Prize: Mark Brandon, British Antarctic Survey.
• The Presidents Competition: Sandrine Charrier, Southampton Oceanographic Institute 'Day and Night: Part 2'
• The Challenger Prize: Stephen Sheard (aerodynamics engineer), Stockport, Cheshire

1995

• The Challenger Prize: Anne Banks.

1994

• The Norman Heaps Prize: Boris Kelly-Gerryn.
• The Cath Allen Prize: M. Lucia Campos (Lucy), University of East Anglia.
• The Presidents Competition: Mark Brandon, British Antarctic Survey 'Deploying a „smart‟ Argos drifting buoy in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in April 1992'