Future Oceans3

Venue

As of joint IPO-Chair meeting on 2022-Oct-11, planning will focus on Colombia only. Santa Marta has been chosen as the location from three potential options (other locations: Medellin and Cartagena):

Santa Marta was proposed by SCOR Colombia Committee.

Committees

Following the model of Future Oceans2, the organisation of Future Oceans3 is built around three committees:

Scientific committee

Consisting of past and present IMBeR SSC members (which could include members/co-chairs of Regional Programmes and Working Groups), IMECaN representative, IPO staff and representative(s) from institutions of venue location (if necessary, adding the latter once the venue is confirmed).

Members appointed so far –

  • Diana Ruiz Pino – Chair of committee
  • John Claydon – IPO-Canada rep
  • GiHoon Hong – IPO-China rep
  • Carol Robinson – Past IMBeR Chair
  • Eileen Hofmann – Past IMBeR Chair
  • Derek Armitage – Social Scientist rep.
  • Micaela Trimble – Social Scientist rep.
  • Andres Osorio – Local rep. afosorioar@unal.edu.co 
  • Constanza Ricaurte – Local rep. INVEMAR constanza.ricaurte@invemar.org.co
  • Paula Andre Zapata paula.zapataramirez@upb.edu.co
  • Charles Addey – IMECaN rep.
  • Nemillie Qaqara – IMECaN rep.
invited but yet to accept or declined
  • Present SSC social scientists- invitations sent 16 Jan 202 – Nireka declined invitation (too busy)
  • Local reps –  invitations sent 17 Jan 2023

Local committee

Consisting of representatives from conference host institutions

Requirements for local committee:

Organising committee

Consisting of IPO staff and staff from local (venue) host institutions

Members appointed so far from IPOs –

  • Lisa Maddison 
  • Fang Zuo
  • Kai Qin
  • Paula George

Planning Timeline

[Dates to be confirmed]

?? October 2022

Establish scientific committee (does venue need to be confirmed? not sure it does: it will save time to work on this and venue simultaneously)

?? November 2022

Confirm conference theme(s) (not sure venue needs to be confirmed first: see above)

?? November 2022

Confirm venue and dates

?? November 2022

Establish local committee (? weeks before conference starts; venue needs to be confirmed; does theme need to be confirmed?)

?? November 2022

Establish organising committee (? weeks before conference starts; venue needs to be confirmed; does theme need to be confirmed?)

?? December 2022

Publish call for sessions and workshops (? weeks before conference starts; theme(s) need to be confirmed; does venue need to be confirmed – would be helpful)

?? March 2023

Accept sessions and workshops (? weeks before conference starts; ? weeks after deadline for submission of session/workshop proposals)

?? March 2023

Publish call for abstracts (? weeks before conference starts; session and workshops need to be confirmed)

?? March 2023

Open registration (? weeks before conference starts; at same time as call for abstracts? will we know registration fees?)

?? March 2023

Publish call for sponsors (? weeks before conference starts; does this need venue and themes confirmed?)

?? December 2023

Confirm abstracts accepted (? weeks before conference starts; ? weeks after deadline for abstract submission)

?? March 2024

Close registration (? weeks before conference starts – also have early bird registration at early date)

?? May 2024

Launch Whova App (? weeks before conference starts; only available a certain period of time before the conference dates)

?? June 2024

Deliver conference

?? September 2024

Survey participants (? weeks after conference)