SCOR provides travel support for scientists from low- to medium-income countries to attend ocean science meetings. The purpose of this support is to help scientists from such countries, particularly early-career scientists, to network with colleagues from other countries, convey the research going on in their countries, and learn about progress in the global ocean science community. The list of eligible countries is given here.
SCOR does not make direct travel grants. Instead, the organizers of ocean science meetings request funding from SCOR and select recipients of the funding. The SCOR Committee on Capacity Building evaluates the requests and awards funds to meetings that are relevant to areas of science relevant to SCOR.
This program is made possible through grants OCE-1724881 and OCE-2027831 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to SCOR.
Recent 2022 meetings for which SCOR provided support include:
- 2022 Goldschmidt Conference, 11-15 July 2022, Honolulu, USA
- 3rd GEOTRACES Summer School: Introducing polar parameters, 10-15 July 2022, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) 44th Scientific Assembly, 16-24 July 2022 Athens, Greece
- Planning Meeting for Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUBS), 16 July 2022, Berlin, Germany
- Best practices for the collection and processing of ship based underway flow-through optical data, 1-5 August 2022, Maine USA
- 5th International Symposium on the ocean in a high CO2 world, 13-16 September 2022, Lima, Peru
- Open Science Conference on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS): Past, Present and Future, 19-23 September 2022, Lima, Peru
- Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia (RMSC): Past, present and future of a living ocean, 27 Sept-2 October 2022, Barcelona, Spain
- SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022, 25-29 September 2022, Cape Town, South Africa
- Ocean Optics XXV Conference, 2-5 October 2022, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
- Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science for Sustainable Management / Joint PICES-ICES, 7-11 November 2022, Lisbon, Portugal
- VI Latin American Symposium of Polychaeta, SILPOLY 2022, 22-25 November 2022, Puerto Varas, Chile
- 15th Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC), 3-8 December 2022, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Meetings in 2023 for which SCOR has approved support include:
- International Indian Ocean Science Conference 2023, 6-9 February 2023, Perth, Australia
- Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Polar Marine Science 2023 / GRC and GRS, 4-10 March 2023, Ventura, CA, USA
- Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Ocean 5 / PICES, 17-21 April 2023, Bergen, Norway
- Planning Workshop for Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUBS), 28-29 April 2023, Woods Hole, USA
- Latin America and Caribbean Fisheries Congress, 15-18 May 2023, Cancun, Mexico
- Training course in Mesopelagic Respiration research and techniques, 21-28 May 2023, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- International Nutrient Inter-Comparison Voyage (INIV) and Ocean Nutrients Symposium, 31 May to 20 June 2023, Hobart and R/V Investigator, Australia
- IMBeR ClimEco8 Summer School: Sustaining the Ocean We Need for the Future We Want, 19-23 June 2023, Koper, Slovenia
- 6th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, 2-5 July 2023, Penang, Malaysia
- Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Chemical Oceanography: “Tracers in the Sea”, 16-21 July 2023, New Hampshire, USA
- Trevor Platt Science Foundation (TPSF) Symposium, 7-8 August 2023, Plymouth, UK
- SOOS Symposium 2023 “Southern Ocean in a Changing World”, 14-18 August 2023, Hobart, Australia
- EMB (European Marine Board) ECOP Network Forum, 8-9 October 2023, Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
- WCRP Open Science Conference 2023: Advancing Climate Science for a Sustainable Future, 23-27 October 2023, Kigali, Rwanda
- 20th International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA), 5-10 November 2023, Hiroshima, Japan
- International Summer School GOOD-OARS-CLAP-COPAS SS2023, 6-12 November 2023, Coquimbo, Chile
Meetings in 2024 for which SCOR has approved support include:
- Austral Summer Institute XXI – ASI XXI, 2-26 January 2024, Concepción, Chile
- 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 13-21 July 2024, Busan, South Korea