Dr Ausubel is a director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University, Program Director and Vice-President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and adjunct faculty member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Ausubel ‘s research interests include environmental science and technology and industrial evolution. Dr. Ausubel was instrumental in the […]
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Dr Bernard is a researcher at the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. Oceanographer, specialising in remote sensing of the ocean, Dr Bernard’s particular interests include multi-scale and -sensor marine observation, ocean colour, bio-optics and harmful algal bloom research. He is active in capacity building in Southern Africa, for example through
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Member of several committees, Dr Biney is the Acting Executive Director at the Volta Basin Authority (Burkina Faso). His area of expertise is Water Resources Management, Pollution of inland and coastal waters and Policy development.
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Dr Brown grew up in the mangrove swamps of east Florida, and attended Duke University with high hopes of medical school and making lots of money. Forced by an accident to attend summer school, he opened the school catalog to the middle pages (where the staples are), and discovered the Duke Marine Lab (DUML). Fleeing
Professor of Oceanography at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), Integrative Oceanography Division. Prof Checkley’s research interests are long-term change in pelagic zooplankton and fish, including climate-biota interactions; role of zooplankton in the marine nitrogen cycle; effects of weather and air-sea interactions on plankton and fishes; ecology of marine zooplankton and fish; the biological pump,
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Dr. Conte is an associate scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, adjunct professor in Brown University’s Department of Geological Sciences and an adjunct scientist at The Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Conte is Principal Investigator of the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) time-series, a nearly 30-year time-series study of sedimentation patterns
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Prof. Field is Emeritus Professor and Deputy Director of the Marine Research Institute at the University of Cape Town, where he studied and obtained his PhD in quantitative marine ecology. Prof. Field is the current Chairman of POGO. He has served as a trustee and scientific adviser to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, as President of
Peter Frenzel is a lecturer for palaeontology and project leader in the Institute of Geosciences, University of Jena, Germany. He works mainly in the fields of palaeoclimatology and environmental micropalaeontology with a focus on brackish water and marginal marine systems. This covers biological and palaeontological, i.e. historical approaches. His main taxonomic groups of research are
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Dr. Hermes is the manager and oceanographer of the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Egagasini Node for Marine Offshore Systems in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an instructor at the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography (1st year) and also a recipient of a POGO-SCOR visiting fellowship in 2008.
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Taka Hirata is currently an assistant professor at Faculty of Environmental Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan. He obtained his PhD (in Physics) in 2003 from Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as a bio-optical modeller at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK as a post-doctoral researcher. After he
Professor at the Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center at Nagoya University, Dr. Ishizaka’s research interests are Dynamics of Ocean Lower Trophic Level, Ocean Color Remote Sensing, Plankton Ecosystem. Dr Ishizaka was one of the instructors at the NF-POGO Visiting Professorship in Vietnam (2007).
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Dr Kampel is researcher and head of the Remote Sensing Division at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais. His research interests are ocean colour, primary productivity, phytoplankton biomass variability, marine ecosystems monitoring and mapping, coastal management, among others. Dr Kampel was one of the instructors at the NF-POGO Visiting Professorship in Brazil (2006) and the
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Prof. Knap is the Director of Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) and Professor of Oceanography. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography in 1978 from the University of Southampton, U.K. Until recently he was Principal Investigator of two very long term ocean measurement programmes off Bermuda funded by the US National Science Foundation: The 58
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Physical oceanographer at the Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski (ISMER), Universite du Quebec a Rimouski until 2006, and now owner and senior oceanographer at Hydrosoft SA (www.hydrosoft.ca). Dr Koutitonsky’s research interests are physical coastal oceanography, time series analysis and numerical modeling. Prof Koutitonsky was the instructor at the NF-POGO Visiting Professorship at
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Dr. Kraberg is the co-ordinator of timeseries activities at the Alfred Wegener Institute and is also manager of the PlanktonNET database that provides georeferenced ecological and taxonomic information on phytoplankton and zooplankton. Her expertise are phytoplankton taxonomy and ecology, with a particular interest in long-term changes in coastal biodiversity including invasive and HAB species. Dr
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Prof Lisa Levin is a professor and researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego and director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps. She studies the ecology of animal communities in marine sediments, particularly those of stressed environments, from the intertidal zone to the deep sea. Her
Dr Lomas is currently a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in the US. Before this current position, he spent nearly 12 years at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences where he was one of the lecturers at the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography in Bermuda, teaching the Biological
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Dr Lutz a researcher and teacher at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero in Argentina. Her research interest involve marine bio-optics. Dr Lutz was one of the instructors at the NF-POGO Visiting Professorship in Brazil (2006) and at the Regional CofE Brazil (2009).She is one of the founding members of ANTARES-CholoroGIN.
Dr Malone is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. His research interests are phytoplankton ecology, coastal eutrophication, and role of science in formulation and implementation of ocean policy. Dr. Malone delivered the graduation address for the 3rd and 4th years of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Ocean Observations.
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Dr. Matsumura was Director of the Research Planning and Coordination Division at the National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries (NRIFSF) of Japan. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Oceanographic Division of NRIFSF during 1992-96. His specialty is satellite oceanography and he led Japanese satellite ocean color remote sensing activities, since the
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Dr Motoyasu Miyata taught oceanography as an NF- POGO Visitng Professor at the University of the Southern Pacific in Fiji (2005). He is presently adjunct professor at the Open University of Japan.
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Dr Muller-Karger is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing at the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida and the Principal Investigator of the CARIACO time series in Venezuela. His research interests include satellite remote sensing of marine primary production, large data sets, networking, and high-speed computing, importance of
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Dr. Plumley has held academic positions at the University of Georgia, the University of Alaska, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Dr Plumley is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Marine Science of the Chulalongkorn University. His research interests are based on algal biochemistry and molecular biology (e.g.,
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Dr Racault is a scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. She contributed to the teaching of the Ocean Colour applications module in the 3rd year of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence. She is also involved in the EAMNet project, hosting a visiting fellow from Ivory Coast for 3 months at PML (Lazare Akpetou, also NF-POGO alumnus).
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Dr Rautenbach has a broad background in the Mathematical sciences. His studies include Mathematics, Physics, Applied mathematics, Process- and Coastal Engineering. He has experience in all of these fields and has particular interests in multiphase flow modelling, digital image processing and experimental research. Currently he is working in the Coastal engineering group at PRDW. Dr
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Dr Rodrigues is an associate lecturer at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Her research interests are developing and validation of chromatography methods and phytoplankton pigments as tracers to limnology and oceanography studies, among others. She belongs, as a researcher, to one recently created “National Institute of Marine Sciences”, supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and
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Prof. Roe is Emeritus Professor of the University of Southampton and was Director of Southampton Oceanography Centre from 1999-2005. His research interests include age determination and feeding in large whales; vertical distributions and migrations of calanoid copepods; copepod taxonomy; and many others. Author of 100+ papers, reports, books etc. Co-founder and Chair of POGO from
Dr. Runghen is an Associate Research Scientist at the Mauritius Oceanography Institute, which he joined in January 2008 as Research Assistant. He is interested in the study of ocean\coastal hydrodynamics, oil spill trajectory modelling using numerical models and environmental impact assessment. He also has experience in GIS and remote sensing.
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Dr Ryu is Principal Research Scientist at the Korea Ocean Satellite Center of the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI). His speciality is remote sensing and its various applications (ocean color, habitat mapping, sediments…). His group was involved in the launch of the world’s first geostationary ocean colour observation satellite (GOCI). Dr Ryu was
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Prof Saitoh was an instructor on the CofE regional training course in Vietnam in Sept-Oct 2011.
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Dr Stuart is the coordinator of the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) and is a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Her research interests include the bio-optical properties of phytoplankton as related to phytoplankton photosynthetic pigments. She was involved in the first 3 years of the NF-POGO Visiting Professorship program, and has
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Dr. Suyehiro is the President and CEO of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Management International, Inc. Chairman of POGO from 2009 to 2010. He led and participated in many marine seismological research works studying crustal and lithospheric structures in relation to plate subduction seismicity and island arc evolution in the western Pacific area. Dr. Suyehiro
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Dr Villanoy has a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Sydney, Australia.
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Dr George N White III is a scientist at the Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Dr White is one of the lecturers at the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography in Bermuda
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Dr Wiafe is a senior Lecturer at the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of Ghana. He is principal investigator to the following projects – Coastal Processes & Maritime Sensing Programme, DevCoCast, EAMNet, GCLME Productivity and Biodiversity and Biofuel supply chain management. He is member of steering committee GESAMP. Dr Wiafe’s main research
Prof. Wiltshire is the Vice-Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Head of the Wadden Sea Stationand the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, home of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography (2013 onwards). Dr. Wiltshire is also Professor for Biogeomicrobiology of Jacobs University Bremen. Her research interests are induction of microalgal
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Dr Yñiguez is a marine biologist and ecological modeler who graduated from the Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Florida, USA in 2007. She was on a Fulbright Scholarship and a Maytag Fellowship during her Ph.D. at Miami. Her general research interest lies in population
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Dr Zhai is affiliated with the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University. She was one of the lecturers at the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography in Bermuda.
