Conferences & Upcoming Events

2023

Shark and ray conferences

• American Elasmobranch Society (AES): USA, July
• Southern African Shark & Ray Symposium (SASRS): Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 24-27 October
• European Elasmobranch Association (EEA): Norway, October

SOSF 20-year anniversary celebrations

• Cape Town, South Africa: 3 May
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA: 7 September
• Geneva, Switzerland: 23 September
• Victoria, Seychelles:  13 October

Other events

• Wavescape Surf & Ocean Festival, Cape Town Peninsula, South Africa, 2-25 March
• Distinguished Speaker Series @ MODS – Museum of Discovery & Science | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  • April 20 – Documenting Shark Communities Using Observation and Remote Technology with Sandra Bessudo, director of the Malpelo and Other Marine Ecosystems Foundation.
  • May 4 – Gill Guardians: An Elasmobranch Conservation and Education Hub with Jasmin Graham, administrator of Gill Guardians.
  • June 1 – Activities at the Shark Lab in Bimini, Bahamas with Matthew Smukall, president and CEO, Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation.
  • June 8 – (World Oceans Day) – Community-Supported Conservation of Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks with Kelly Kingon, assistant professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • July 13 – Antarctic Penguins with Tom Hart, research fellow at the University of Oxford, Polar Ecology and Conservation Research Group.
  • August 3 – Shark Conservation Fund: Turning the Tide for Threatened Sharks and Rays with Lee Crockett, executive director at the Shark Research Fund.
  • August 30 – Whale Sharks of the Galápagos Marine Reserve with Sofía Green, PhD candidate at University of the Algarve.
  • September 7 – Silky Shark Fishing Conservation and Tagging Panel Discussion with Brendan Talwar, PhD candidate at Florida International University and Bryan Keller, researcher at Saving the Blue.
  • October 5 – Kelp: Important Ocean Forests for Sharks with Emiliano García-Rodríguez, postdoc at Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja, California.
  • November 2 – Sevengill Sharks in San Francisco Bay with Meghan Holst, PhD candidate in Conservation Ecology at the University of California, Davis.
  • December 14 – Whales of British Columbia with Janie Wray, CEO and Lead Researcher for BC Whales.
• Jackson Wild Summit, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, 25-28 September
• Sea Walls South Africa presented by the Save Our Seas Foundation, Cape Town Peninsula, South Africa, 3-11 November

2022

Shark and ray conferences

• Sharks International, Valencia 2022, Spain, October 2022
• Cities Conference of Parties, Panama, 14-25 November 2022

Other events

• The Wavescape Surf & Ocean Festival, Cape Town, 1-11 March 2022
• Exposub, July – August, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2021

Shark and ray conferences

• American Elasmobranch Society (AES): 21-25 July (Dates subject to change) Phoenix, AZ, USA
• Oceania Chondrichthyan Society (OCS): shark fisheries symposium at the World Fisheries Congress in Adelaide 20-24 September
• European Elasmobranch Association (EEA): in Leiden, Netherlands, 3-5 November
• Southern African Shark & Ray Symposium (SASRS): in Gansbaai, South Africa, 17-19 November

Other events

• Bottle Ocean 2120 de George Nuku, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève,  25 September 2020 – 21 January 2022
• Exposub, 24 June – 29 August 2021, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Distinguished Speaker Series @ MODS – Museum of Discovery & Science | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 1 April – 7 November
• Sea Walls Santa Cruz 2021, Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A, 13-18 September 2021
• Young Marine Biologist Summit 2021, online event, 27 &28 November 2021