Ocean Sciences Seminar Series
Usually every Friday, in person or via Teams.
These seminars are a great opportunity to find out what research goes on inside and outside SOS.
Seminars will be either in person for speakers that are coming to Bangor, or online on Teams. Where meetings are in person in the Sarah Jones Lecture Theatre, capacity is limited to 48 persons (although this is generally not expected to be a limiting factor), and we will simultaneously webcast the seminar via Teams.
Date |
Speaker | Institute | Provisional Topic |
| 02 October 2026 | Vedant Vairagi & Marina De Llobet | Bangor | Stratification in the Beaufort Gyre Layer Cake / Blue carbon |
| 09 October 2026 | Christopher Bie | RMIT University | Australian Carbon Credit scheme, the Nature Repair Market, marine restoration, natural capital space |
| 16 October 2026 | James Waggitt & Joseph Spencer | Bangor | Roost Monitoring (‘RoostCam’) / TBC |
| 23 October 2026 | Holly Peek | Natural Resources Wales | Chinese mitten crabs, a pain in the bank side |
| 30 October 2026 | Robyn Morland | Association for Coastal Ecosystem Services | Nature-Based Solutions in action: seagrass and mangrove conservation in Kenya |
| 06 November 2026 | Ilker Fer | University of Bergen | Stirred Norwegian Sea: eddies, warm rings, Lofoten Vortex and mixing |
| 13 November 2026 | Lucrezia Carroccia & Taylor Ferguson | Bangor | Marine top predators |
| 20 November 2026 | Marianna Chimienti | Bangor | InSync – ECOSENT - Ecosystem Sentinels – Assessing predator/prey energy fluxes in polar marine ecosystems initiative |
| 27 November 2026 | Jordan Brewin | University of Wyoming | Falkland Islands to Great Lakes: Understanding trophic structure in fisheries management |
| 04 December 2026 | Hannah Whitby | Liverpool University | The Iron-Carbon Cascade. From Soils to the Sea |
| 11 December 2026 | Mercedes Lopez, Jazmin Cowlin | Bangor | Fish on salt marsh / Disruption of Stratification associated with the Development of a Turbulent Wake due to Tidal Flow past a Floating Wind Turbine. |
| 18 December 2026 | No Seminar |
If you would like to volunteer to give a talk or have suggestions for speakers, please get in touch with Jan Geert Hiddink. If there any particular areas of science or types of speakers that you feel have been underrepresented in the past year and you would like to hear more of, please let Jan know.
Watch some of our previous seminars here:
Microplastics in deep-marine environments by Ian Kane
Understanding seabird distribution in coastal environments by James Waggitt
Coral fish as indicators of ecosystem status and human impact by Melita Samoilys