Archives: NANO Friends

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.

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

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.,

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).

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

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

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.

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

Prof Saitoh was an instructor on the CofE regional training course in Vietnam in Sept-Oct 2011.