2025 Meeting of the Waves SIG

30th June 2025: Wind Waves: Special Interest Group meeting in Liverpool

The 6th meeting of the Challenger Society Ocean Wind Waves Special Interest Group meeting took place on Monday 30th June 2025, at NOC Liverpool. We had 30 attendees in person, and another 15 online with participants from universities, research centres, government, and industry. Though the Challenger society are UK based, we had some international guest participants, notably an invited speaker from Ifremer.

We had 25 presentations spanning work from tank experiments to global models. Novel technologies for measuring waves using radar, GNSS-IR and SWOT satellites were demonstrated, showing never-before possible images of surface waves. Clever machine learning techniques are being applied to make future climate projections and rapidly accelerate wave modelling with emulators. We also discussed the wider ranging impact of waves; on sediments, the seabed, and ecosystems
This years’ meeting was made extra special, as the science content was interspersed with an exhibition based on waves. Artist Mike Bond showcased his painting and sculpture, themed around the rhythms and energy of waves and storms, alongside the slippery fluidity of fish. The art exhibition will remain in NOC over the summer, and our next meeting will be held in Imperial College in 2026 and will include a laboratory visit to see experiments in their wave tank facility.
 

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More details of our special interest group here: https://projects.noc.ac.uk/windwavesSIG/ 

and details of previous meetings can be found here: https://projects.noc.ac.uk/windwavesSIG/meetings