To ensure broad international participation the SSC encourages collaboration with national contacts to support IMBeR-related research in the countries. National contacts are encouraged to help coordinate research and communication within countries and with the broader IMBeR community. IMBeR has contacts in 39 countries.
Nayrah Shaltout National Contact for Egypt
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Cairo
The carbon biogeochemical cycle in the Egyptian Mediterranean and Red Seas; Impact of ocean acidification on diatoms and bacteria; Application of BFM models for Egyptian Mediterranean Sea; Impact of climate change on the fate of persistent organic pollutants
E-mail: nshaltout@gmail.com Website:
Karim Himli National Contact for Morocco
Département d’océanographie et Aquaculture
Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (INHR), Casablanca, Morocco
E-mail: k.hilmi.inrh@gmail.com Website:
Soukaina Zizah National Contact for Morocco
Institut National de Recherche Halieutique, Casablanca, Morocco
Fisheries Oceanography Aquaculture
E-mail: zizah@inrh.ma Website: Link
Brownen Currie National Contact for Namibia
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Swakopmund, Namibia
Marine biology, Northern Benguela upwelling system
E-mail: currie32@gmail.com Website:
Abraham Ogheneruemu Ekperusi National Contact for Nigeria
Department of Marine Environment & Pollution Control, Faculty of Marine Environmental Management, Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Nigeria
Pollution, Remediation, Ecotoxicology
E-mail: ekperusiab@gmail.com Website:
Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya National Contact for Nigeria
Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University, Nigeria
Socio-ecological issues, Fisheries biology and population dynamics, Fisheries-based livelihoods, Food and nutrition, Gender analysis, Climate change and plastic pollution
E-mail: kafayat.fakoya@lasu.edu.ng Website:
Coleen Moloney National Contact for South Africa
Marine Biology Research Institute, Rondebosch, South Africa
Food webs, modelling
E-mail: cmoloney@egs.uct.ac.za Website: Link
Jing Zhang National Contact for China
State Key Lab. of Estuarine and Coastal Research, ECNU, Shanghai, China
Biogeochemistry and Chemical Oceanography
E-mail: jzhang@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn Website:
Wajih Naqvi National Contact for India
National Institute of Oceanography, GOA, India
N-cycling and microbiology
E-mail: naqvi@nio.org Website:
Punyasloke Bhadury National Contact for India
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Marine ecosystem health, Blue economy, Biogeochemistry
E-mail: pbhadury@iiserkol.ac.in Website: Link
A’an Johan Wahyudi National Contact for Indonesia
Research Center for Oceanography, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia
Marine biogeochemistry, Ocean carbon cycle, Climate change, Ocean acidification, Deoxygenation, Source origin of organic matter, Food web biogeochemistry in marine system, Blue carbon and blue economy
E-mail: aanj001@brin.go.id Website: Link
Maryam Ghaemi National Contact for Iran
Head of Bushehr Oceanography Center,
Faculty member of the Marine Science Department of the Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, Iran
Chemical oceanography, marine pollution, ocean acidification, and nutrient dynamics
E-mail: mghaemi@inio.ac.ir Website: Link
Hiroshi Ogawa National Contact for Japan
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Biogeochemistry, dynamics of organic matter and nutrients
E-mail: hogawa@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp Website: Link
Adnan Al-Azri National Contact for Oman
Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod, Oman
Phytoplankton and DOM dynamics
E-mail: Website:
Samina Kidwai National Contact for Pakistan
Former Research Scientist/Director General, National Institute of Oceanography, Pakistan
Biological Oceanography, zooplankton ecology
E-mail: skidwaipk@gmail.com Website: Link
Se-Jong Ju National Contact for South Korea
Deep-Sea and Seabed Resources Research Division Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Biogeochemistry, food web dynamics, lipid chemistry
E-mail: sjju@kiost.ac Website:
Nireka Weeratunge Starkloff National Contact for Sri Lanka
International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Socio-cultural anthropology, environment-society interface, marine-dependent communities
E-mail: nireka.weeratunge@yahoo.com Website: Link
Alberto Vieira Borges National Contact for Belgium
University of Liege, Liège, Belgium
Biogeochemistry of aquatic systems
E-mail: Alberto.Borges@ulg.ac.be Website:
Riitta Autio National Contact for Finland
Marine Research Centre/Modelling and Innovations Unit, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland
Bacterioplankton, Mixotrophy
E-mail: riitta.autio@ymparisto.fi Website: Link
François Carlotti National Contact for France
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
Pelagic ecosystem functioning, Zooplankton, Trophic fluxes, Biogeochemical cycles
E-mail: francois.carlotti@mio.osupytheas.fr Website:Link
Arne Kõrtzinger National Contact for Germany
Leibniz – Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany
Marine Biogeochemistry
E-mail: akoertzinger@geomar.de Website:
Alexandra Gogou National Contact for Greece
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavissos, Greece
Chemical Oceanography
E-mail: agogou@ath.hcmr.gr Website:
Constantin Frangoulis National Contact for Greece
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Biological Oceanography, Operational ecology
E-mail: cfrangoulis@hcmr.gr Website:
Peter Croot National Contact for Ireland
Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
Earth and Ocean Sciences
E-mail: peter.croot@nuigalway.ie Website: Link
Cosimo Solidoro National Contact for Italy
ECOMADR endorsed project
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Department of Oceanography, Trieste, Italy
Ecology, computational hydrodynamics in oceanography
E-mail: csolidoro@ogs.trieste.it Website:
Ken Drinkwater National Contact for Norway
Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Physical oceanography, climate effects on the marine ecosystem
E-mail: ken.drinkwater@imr.no Website: Link
Baris Salihoglu National Contact for Turkey
Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Icel, Turkey
Mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems, descriptive physical oceanography
E-mail: baris@ims.metu.edu.tr Website: Link
Pavel Yu. Semkin National Contact for Russia
V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Interaction of biological and physical processes in estuaries and on the shelf, Marginal filter, Hydrochemistry of estuaries
E-mail: pahno@list.ru Website: Link
Xose Anton Alvarez-Salgado National Contact for Spain
CSIC Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Eduardo Cabello 6, E36208, Vigo, Spain
Ocean biogeochemistry, dissolved organic matter, coastal upwelling, dark ocean
E-mail: xsalgado@iim.csic.es Website:
Andrea Belgrano National Contact for Sweden
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research and Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (SIME), University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ecosystem-based management for marine fisheries, ocean governance sustainability and resilience
E-mail: andrea.belgrano@slu.se Website: Link
Nicolas Gruber National Contact for Switzerland
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Modelling, carbon-climate interactions, link to GODAO
E-mail: nicolas.gruber@env.ethz.ch Website: Link
Jack Middleburg National Contact for The Netherlands
Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Biogeochemistry, Sediment-Water, Continental margins
E-mail: j.b.m.middelburg@uu.nl Website: Link
Wilco Hazeleger National Contact for The Netherlands
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Climate variability, change and modellig
E-mail: w.hazeleger@uu.nl Website: Link
Eugene Murphy National Contact for UK
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Biological oceanography, Southern Ocean food web modelling, ecosystems dynamics, biogeochemical cycles
E-mail: e.murphy@bas.ac.uk Website: Link
Kumiko Azetsu-Scott National Contact for Canada
Oceans and Ecosystem Sciences Division Department of Fisheries and Oceans Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Carbon dynamics, ocean acidification and tracer studies in the North Atlantic and the Arctic
E-mail: Kumiko.Azetsu-Scott@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Website: Link
Salvador E. Lluch-Cota National Contact for Mexico
Programa de Ecología Pesquera Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Mexico
Fisheries Oceanography
E-mail: slluch@cibnor.mx Website: Link
Mike Roman National Contact for USA
Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, USA
Zooplankton ecology, food webs
E-mail: roman@hpl.umces.edu Website: Link
Heather Benway National Contact for USA
OCB Project Office, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Paleoceanography, Sedimentology, Isotope Geochemistry, Marine Biogeochemistry
E-mail: hbenway@whoi.edu Website: Link
Celeste López-Abbate National Contact for Argentina
Argentine Oceanographic Institute, Argentina
Microzooplankton, Food Webs, Climate, Estuaries, Marine Ecology
E-mail: clopezabbate@gmail.com Website: Link
Anaide W. Aued National Contact for Brazil
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil
Macroecology of benthic organisms
E-mail: anaidewru@gmail.com Website:
Renato S. Carreira National Contact for Brazil
LabMAM/Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), 22451-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marine Biogeochemistry, Organic Geochemistry
E-mail: carreira@puc-rio.br Website: Link
Maija Iris Heller National Contact for Chile
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Chile
Geochemistry
E-mail: maija.heller@pucv.cl Website:
Dimitri Gutierrez National Contact for Peru
Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE), Callao, Peru
Biological oceanography
E-mail: dgutierrez@imarpe.pe Website: Link
Micaela Trimble National Contact for Uruguay
South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, Uruguay
Social-ecological systems; adaptive co-management; environmental governance; public participation
E-mail: mica.trimble@saras-institute.org Website: Link
Omar Defeo National Contact for Uruguay
Faculty of Sciences, Montevideo, Uruguay
fisheries, climate change
E-mail: odefeo@dinara.gub.uy Website: Link
Alistair Hobday National Contact for Australia
IMBeR SSC Member since 2017
Past co-Chair of CLIOTOP
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Climate variability and change, climate adaptation, fisheries management, ecological risk assessments, science-to-policy
E-mail: alistair.hobday@csiro.au Website:
Julie Hall National Contact for New Zealand
Past IMBER Chair (2007-2010)
NIWA, Hamilton, New Zealand
Biology and Ecosystems, Microbial food webs
E-mail: Julie.Hall@niwa.co.nz Website: Link