History
The Challenger Society was founded in 1903 by two British scientists, the zoologist George Herbert Fowler and the physician Richard Norris Wolfenden. The Society was named in honour of the HMS Challenger, which undertook the first global marine research survey, the Challenger expedition, between 1872 and 1876. When it was originally founded, the Society had 25 members who met four times annually in the Royal Society rooms of Burlington House in London.
The Challenger Society has a current membership of several hundred scientists and students. The Society publishes the journal Ocean Challenge three times a year, together with a monthly newsletter, Challenge Wave. Every two years since 1984, the Society holds a four day conference, the Challenger Conference for Marine Science (formerly known as UK Oceanography). This conference typically attracts around 300 delegates and its location is rotated around the key marine-based research centres and universities within the UK. The most recent conference in September 2012 was hosted at the University of East Anglia.
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