The 36th Annual International Research Ship Operators – IRSO

The International Research Ship Operators (IRSO) forum is a group of research ship operators representing 49 organizations from 30 countries who manage over 100 of the world’s leading marine scientific research vessels. IRSO membership is open to all research ship operating institutes or national research programs that are engaged in the collection of data from ships at sea and follow established protocols for the open publication of their results.

Registration 

Registration will open soon. 

Prices for this year’s event will include all in-program activities from Monday to the end of Thursday. The meeting starts with lunch on the Monday and ends with the event dinner. Each day have lunch and coffee breaks included. 

Social events

Social events on Friday the 26^th is optional and can be added on during registration. More information soon. 
For any registration issues please contact Arrangementshjelpen. 

Program

Program outline

Visa information

For most European countries a visa is not necessary to travel to Norway. You will find the criteria for your country at the UDI page – The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration. 

Contact Arrangementshjelpen regarding invitations letters if your visa applications require this.  

Presentation

If you are willing to give a presentation during IRSO, please fill out this short form. 

Posters

An additional fee of 375 NOK will be taken for anyone that are presenting a poster. We will then print and hang your poster for you. Please specify during registration if you are willing to present a poster. 

The poster needs to be according to the poster specification below. Posters in otherer format or that are received after the deadline will be declined. Deadline for the poster is September 9th 00.01 CET. Uploding link will be provided soon. 

Poster specification 

We will only accept posters in the A0 portrait format. A0 has a width of 33.11” (841 mm) and height of 46.81” (1189 mm) in a PDF format.