Previous Meeting Prize winners
2016
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The Norman Heaps prize:
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The Cath Allen Prize:
- The President’s Photographic Competition:
2014
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The Norman Heaps prize:
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The Cath Allen Prize:
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The President’s Photographic Competition:
2012
- The Norman Heaps prize: Charlotte Williams, National Oceanography Centre
- The Cath Allen Prize: Benjamin Webber, University of East Anglia
- The President’s Photographic Competition: Damien Guihen, British Antarctic Survey
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. Note, several people were also Commended at this conference but are not listed here.
- 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, University of Southampton, 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'
1993
- The Challenger Prize: AD Watts.
1992
- The Norman Heaps Prize: Rebecca Woodgate, Hooke Institute.
- The Cath Allen Prize: Sarah Cornell, University of East Anglia; Stuart Gibb, Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
1991
- The Challenger Prize: Capt Dave Akhurst (BA pilot), Sevenoaks, Kent and Dr Madeleine McDonagh (Chemical engineer at Warren Springs Lab), Hitchen, Herts.
1990
- The Norman Heaps Prize: Tim O‟Hare, Ocean Sciences Menai Bridge.
- The Cath Allen Prize: Sue Turner, University of East Anglia.
- The Challenger Prize: Chris Hall.
1989
- The Challenger Prize: Bill Quinton (architect), Skipton, N Yorkshire . Joint runners up: Frances Perry (librarian), London and Ian Fenton (biology teacher), London.
1988
- The Norman Heaps Prize: Adrian New, IOSDL; Andrew Rees, Plymouth Polytechnic.
- The Cath Allen Prize: Gillian Malin and Sue Turner; Darrell Sturley, Plymouth Polytechnic; Kershaw, MAFF.
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