The Challenger Society Marine Technologies SIG present:

Microfluidics and microsensor technology for

oceanographic and environmental science applications
Wednesday 10th April 2013
SEMINAR ROOM, 4th Floor, National Oceanography Centre
0830

Registration open until 0910

0915

Dr Matthew Mowlem
Head of Ocean Technology and Engineering Group (OTEG)
and Centre for Marine Microsystems (CMM)
National Oceanography Centre, UK

Introduction and welcome

Ocean Sensing and Integrated Systems

0930

Dr Veronique Garcon
Senior Scientist
LEGOS Observatoire de Midi-Pyrnes, Toulouse, France

Towards a global monitoring of key

oceanic biogeochemical variables

1015

Dr Agathe Laes-Huon
Marine Chemist (in situ instrumentation)
Ifremer, France

Chemini: In situ monitoring of nutrients

and metals in marine waters

1045

Dr Alex Beaton and Dr Iain Ogilvie

Postdoctoral Researchers in Sensor Development
Centre for Marine Microsystems, National Oceanography Centre, UK

Lab-on-a-chip nutrient sensors for

environmental monitoring

1115

Tea and coffee break and opportunity for networking

Microsensors for Biological Applications

1200

Allison Schaap
PhD in Nanoscale Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

An optofluidic glass microchip for

phytoplankton sizing and identification

1230

Dr Maria-Nefeli Tsaloglou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bioanalytics
Centre for Hybrid Biodevices, University of Southampton, UK

Microfluidic isothermal nucleic acid amplification

for biological environmental monitoring

1300

Lunch and poster session

200 prize for Best Poster, sponsored by Chelsea Technologies Group

Novel Microsensors for Environmental Monitoring

1400

Professor Dermot Diamond

CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
National Centre for Sensor research, Dublin City University, Ireland

Materials science and the sensors revolution

Re-Inventing chemical sensing for widely
distributed environmental monitoring

1445

Dr. Sergey Borisov and Professor Ingo Klimant,

Institute of Analytical Chemistry,
Graz University of Technology, Austria

High performance materials for optical

sensing and imaging on microscale

1515

Professor Paul Maguire,

Professor of Plasmas and Nanofabrication
School of Engineering, University of Ulster, UK

Microfabrication, microfluidics and

microplasmas: advancing sensor device design
and scope for harsh environment monitoring

Special talk
1600

1630

Dr Ian David Walsh

Senior Oceanographer and VP Sales and Marketing
WET Labs Inc, USA

Partnering with industry in the development

process: Beta testing and beyond

Presentation of prize for Best Poster

Dr. John Attridge, Chelsea Technologies Group
Sponsored by:

This programme is subject to change, updates can be found on the website

www.noc.ac.uk/microsensors
Registration is FREE but must be done in advance. Please contact a.beaton@noc.ac.uk to secure your place

Programme correct as at 21 March 2013