The Swedish Society for Marine Sciences (Svenska havsforskningsföreningen, SHF) arranges the Swedish Marine Science conference (Havsforskningsdagarna) once a year. The Swedish Marine Science conference is an interdisciplinary marine conference where scientists, officials, consultants, biologists, chemists, oceanographers, engineers and geologists meet and share their experiences and knowledge during a small-scale, 2-3 days conference. Anyone who works in Sweden within marine research or monitoring, or otherwise take particular interest in questions concerning our common sea-areas and marine environmental issues, are welcome to take part in this conference. Participants are welcome to present their work in the form of an oral presentation or poster, and the SHF-committee also each year invites some speakers of current interests to the conference. In a unique way, the SHF-conference presents a selection of the latest research and current projects that goes on within Sweden, or with Swedish participants. Also, our ambition is to strengthen what Sweden is doing internationally within these fields.
To introduce participating members to different institutes, work-places and field stations where marine science and education is taking place, the conference is held in a different city each year. The conference usually attracts between 50 to 100 participants, and this small format is excellent to create a familiar atmosphere with lots of discussions and an opportunity to create valuable contacts. PhD-students get a lot of feed-back on their research-presentations and get introduced to their possible future employers. The Swedish marine science conference is therefore an ideal opportunity to create new ideas when participants discover their common interests in research, monitoring and sampling facilities.
Information on this years conference, Visions of the Sea, 2011
