SCOR has awarded four Visiting Scholars for 2021. The awardees are:
- Enrique Montes (University of South Florida, USA) to teach at the Universidade Federal de Espiritu Santo (Brazil) about biodiversity surveys, protocols and data management workflows with LTER.
- Julia Sigwart (Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany) to teach at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia) about the role of taxonomy in ocean sciences, biodiversity resources, museum collections resources for ocean sciences.
- Louise Firth (University of Plymouth, UK) to teach at the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) (South Africa) about eco-engineering of the marine built environment.
- Marina Ross (Acropolis, S.A., Greece) to teach at Hue University (Vietnam) about fisheries and aquaculture.
See full list of SCOR Visiting Scholars since 2009 at: https://scor-int.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Scholars-for-2009-2021.pdf