| 2000 | n/a | POGO-1
Dr Charles Kennel
SIO, USA |
| 2001 | Dr Charles Kennel
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA | POGO-2
Dr Rolf Weber
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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2002
| Dr Charles Kennel
SIO, USA | POGO-3
Dr Michael Sinclair
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada |
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2003
| Prof Howard Roe
Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK | POGO-4
Dr Nan Bray
CSIRO, Australia |
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2004
| Prof Howard Roe
SOC, UK | POGO-5
Dr Masato Chijiya
JAMSTEC, Japan |
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2005
| Prof Jan de Leeuw
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) | POGO-6
Dr Jean-Louis Fellous
Ifremer, France |
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2006
| Prof Jan de Leeuw
NIOZ, Netherlands | POGO-7
Dr Shailesh Nayak
INCOIS, India |
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2007
| Dr Tony Haymet
CSIRO, Australia/ SIO, USA | POGO-8
Prof Sun Song
IOCAS, China |
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2008
| Dr Tony Haymet
SIO, USA | POGO-9
Dr Tony Knap
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences |
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2009
| Dr Kiyoshi Suyehiro
JAMSTEC/IODP, Japan | POGO-10
Dr Carina Lange
University of Concepcion, Chile |
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2010
| Dr Kiyoshi Suyehiro
IODP, Japan | POGO-11
Prof Robert Nigmatulin
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology |
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2011
| Prof Peter Herzig
Leibniz Institute of Ocean Sciences, (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany | POGO-12
Dr Jung-Keuk Kang
Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute |
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2012
| Prof Peter Herzig
IFM-GEOMAR, Germany | POGO-13
Dr Brian Taylor
SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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2013
| Prof John Field
University of Cape Town, South Africa | POGO-14
Prof John Field
Ma-Re, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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2014
| Prof John Field
University of Cape Town, South Africa | POGO-15
Prof Bruce Mapstone, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
& Prof Mike Coffin, IMAS, Hobart, Australia |
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2015
| Prof Karen Wiltshire
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany | POGO-16
Prof. Eduardo Balguerías Guerra
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain |
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2016
| Prof Karen Wiltshire
AWI, Germany | POGO-17
Dr. Yoshihisa Shirayama
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan |
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2017
| Prof Karen Wiltshire
AWI, Germany | POGO-18
Prof Stephen de Mora
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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2018
| Prof Karen Wiltshire
AWI, Germany | POGO-19
Dr Margaret Leinen
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA |
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2019
| Prof Nicholas Owens
SAMS, UK | POGO-20
Dr Osvaldina Silva, Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP), Cabo Verde & Prof Peter Herzig, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany |
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2020
| Prof Nicholas Owens
SAMS, UK | POGO-21
Dr Li Tiegang, First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Ministry of Natural Resources, China & Dr Wu Lixin, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, China |
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2021
| Prof Nicholas Owens
SAMS, UK | POGO-22
The POGO-22 Annual Meeting took place as a virtual event, using Hopin & Zoom platforms, and managed by the POGO Secretariat. |
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2022
| Prof Nicholas Owens
SAMS, UK | POGO-23
The POGO-23 Annual Meeting took place as a virtual event, using the Zoom platform, and managed by the POGO Secretariat. |
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2023
| Prof Nicholas Owens (interim chair)
SAMS, UK | POGO-24
Dr Gilles Lericolais and Dr Francois Houllier
IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la MER), Toulon, France |
| 2024 | Captain Francisco Armando Arias-Isaza
INVEMAR, Colombia | POGO-24
Dr. Carmen Paniagua Chavez
Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico |
