Members
Co-Chairs
Emmanuel Boss has 20 years of experience using commercial instrumentation on ships and fixed platforms.
He has worked on physical-biological interactions from micro-scale to basin scales.
Email: emmanuel.boss@maine.edu
Anya Waite is a biological oceanographer with extensive laboratory and field experience in
integrating and interpreting large multidisciplinary datasets across arrays of biological and
physical sensors, field sampling at a wide range of time and space scales as well as analytical
experience in flow cytometry, image analysis, confocal and conventional microscopy.
Email: anya.waite@awi.de
Full Members
Silvia Acinas is a microbial ecologist who is coordinator of the prokaryotic consortium of the
Tara Oceans expedition and responsible also for microbial genomics analyses of the Malaspina
2010 global circumnavigation. Her team has been involved of deliver alternative approaches for
exploring diversity and community structure of microbial communities and analyses of marine
microbial metagenomics.
Email: sacinas@icm.csic.es
Ilana Berman-Frank has extensive experience on phytoplankton ecophysiology and specifically
on marine N2 fixation focusing for the past 15 years on the contribution of diazotrophs to
production in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) and northern Red Sea. Has recently set up
the first deep-moored station in the Levantine Basin (1500 m depth) to measure production and
export and targeted as an ocean observatory platform to provide data for the ultraoligotrophic
EMS.
Marcela Cornejo is a biogeochemical oceanographer with interest in carbon, nitrogen and
phosphorus cycles in the surface and subsurface waters and the main physical and biological
driving factors such as upwelling, phytoplankton bloom, and the shallowing of the oxygen
minimum zone. Her work is mainly focused in the upwelling regions and the mesoscale
structures.
Email: marcela.cornejo@pucv.cl
Katja Fennel has developed and applied numerical models of marine ecosystems and
biogeochemistry for over two decades with particular focus on the cycling of nitrogen, carbon
and oxygen. In addition, she has developed and applied methods for the assimilation of
observations into models in order to improve their predictive capabilities.
Email: katja.fennel@dal.ca
Heidi Sosik is a plankton ecologist with extensive experience developing automated
instrumentation, in particular submersible flow cytometry and imaging-in-flow cytometry;
developing open-source analysis workflows and web-service based information systems to
advance accessibility and use of the big data streams resulting from these technologies; serving
as coastal ocean observatory science director; and promoting long-term ecological research in the
oceans.
Email: hsosik@whoi.edu
Sandy Thomalla is a biogeochemical oceanographer whose research focuses on using bio-optical
approaches to parametrize the particle field (dominated by phytoplankton). The primary
objective of her work is to develop and apply emerging techniques to derive optimized and
regionally robust information from autonomous platforms and satellite ocean colour products in
the Southern Ocean.
Email: sthomalla@csir.co.za
Preferred email: sandy.thomalla@gmail.com
Julia Uitz is a biogeochemical oceanographer with strong interest in deriving information on
phytoplankton diversity based on optical observations from a variety of research platforms such
as vessels, profiling floats or ocean color satellites. Her research has mostly focused on the
global open ocean and more recently on specific atypical regions (Mediterranean Sea, Southern
Ocean).
Email: julia.uitz@obs-vlfr.fr
Hidekatsu Yamazaki is a physical oceanographer. His research interests focus on examining the
physical environment of phytoplankton and zooplankton. He is also investigating the
relationship between turbulence and other phenomena (internal waves, ocean currents).
Email: hide@kaiyodai.ac.jp
Associate Members
Sonia Batten
Email: Sonia.Batten@sahfos.ac.uk
Jørgen Berge
Email: jorgen.berge@uit.no
Herve Claustre
Email: herve.claustre@obs-vlfr.fr
Gérald Grégori
Email: gerald.gregori@mio.osupytheas.fr
Johannes Karstensen
Email: jkarstensen@geomar.de
Frank Muller-Karger
Email: carib@usf.edu
Anthony Richardson
Email: Anthony.Richardson@csiro.au
Bernadette Sloyan
Email: bernadette.Sloyan@csiro.au
Rik Wanninkhof
Email: Rik.Wanninkhof@noaa.gov