TREVOR-SAFARI 2026

The Trevor Platt Science Foundation (TPSF) and its partners are proud to announce TREVOR-SAFARI 2026

This landmark event merges two major community-building initiatives inspired by the legacy of Prof. Trevor Platt, FRS, FRSC. This symposium marks the second installment of the TREVOR symposium—following its 2023 debut at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK—and the third SAFARI symposium.The previous two SAFARI symposia were organised by ICAR-CIFT (2010) and ICAR-CMFRI (2018).

The symposium is being organized jointly by TPSF, COD-CUSAT, MBAI, ICAR-CMFRI and will be held on 04–06 November 2026 at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CMFRI) in Kochi, India.

The symposium will be preceded by a training course organised by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS, Hyderabad) and the Department of Chemical Oceanography at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT, Kochi).

The training course is organized as two segments. The initial segment consists of a series of online lectures followed by in-person classroom sessions and computer work from 27–31 October 2026 at INCOIS, Hyderabad, India. This will be followed by a segment in Kochi, India from 01-03 November 2026 consisting of a field trip to Vembanad Lake in Kerala, India and laboratory analyses of the samples collected during the field trip at CUSAT, Kochi, India.