Members
Carol Robinson
Chair since 2016
E-mail: Carol.Robinson@uea.ac.uk
Web page: Link
National contact, IMBER SSC (2007-2013)
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Microbial biogeochemistry
Marion Glaser
Vice-Chair since 2017
E-mail: marion.glaser@leibniz-zmt.de
Web page: Link
Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Bremen, Germany
Multi-level social-ecological systems analysis, resilience and transformation, tropical coastal livelihoods, coastal and ocean governance and management, transdisciplinary research
Eugene Murphy
Vice-Chair since 2016
E-mail: e.murphy@bas.ac.uk
Web page: Link
ICED (Chair), National contact
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Biological oceanography, Southern Ocean food web modelling, ecosystems dynamics, biogeochemical cycles
Alice Newton
Vice-Chair since 2019
E-mail: anewton@ualg.pt
Web page: Link
Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Eutrophication, assessment frameworks of marine social – ecological systems, Regional Seas Conventions, marine environmental policy implementation, marine biodiversity assessments, science communication
Laurent Bopp
Member since 2014
E-mail: laurent.bopp@lsce.ipsl.fr
Web page: Link
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
Physical oceanography, climate-marine biogeochemistry interactions, marine ecology, computational modelling
Chris Cvitanovic
Early Career representative since 2018
E-mail: christopher.cvitanovic@anu.edu.au
The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Canberra
Marine governance, knowledge exchange, science-policy and stakeholder engagement
Mark Dickey-Collas
Member since 2017
E-mail: Mark.dickey-collas@ices.dk
Web page: Link
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and Danish Technical University National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-AQUA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Population dynamics, ecosystem approach, science for policy, pelagic fish and fisheries
Rubén Escribano
Member since 2015
E-mail: rescribano@udec.cl
Web page: Link
IMBER-CLIVAR Upwelling WG (Chair)
Department of Oceanography & Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Marine zooplankton ecology, marine pelagic food webs, population biology
Gerhard Herndl
Member since 2014
E-mail: gerhard.herndl@univie.ac.at
Web page: Link
Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Marine microbial ecology, microbial oceanography and biodiversity, marine biogeochemistry, dark ocean
Alistair Hobday
Member since 2017
E-mail: alistair.hobday@csiro.au
Past co-Chair of CLIOTOP
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Climate variability and change, climate adaptation, fisheries management, ecological risk assessments, science-to-policy
Jeomshik Hwang
Member since 2019
E-mail: jeomshik@snu.ac.kr
Web page: Link
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Biological carbon pump, sediment resuspension, radiocarbon
Oscar Iribarne
Member since 2018. Term ended 31 December 2019
E-mail: osiriba@mdp.edu.ar
Web page: Link
National University of Mar del Plata (CONICET), Mar del Plata, Argentina
Marine ecology, Determinants of community structure, Sustainable fisheries; Interface ecosystems
Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
Ex-officio Member since 2018. Term ended 31 March 2020
Tel.: +47 930 47 611
E-mail: olav.kjesbu@imr.no
Web page: Link
Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Reproductive ecology and recruitment dynamics, effect of environmental variability on fish stock productivity
Frank Muller-Karger
Member since 2018
E-mail: carib@usf.edu
Web page: Link
University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
Biological oceanography, ocean remote sensing, nutrient cycles, ecology/biodiversity
Member since 2018
E-mail: suvaluck.nat@mahidol.ac.th
Web page: Link
Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
Marine and coastal management and fisheries governance
David VanderZwaag
Member since 2018
E-mail: David.VanderZwaag@Dal.Ca
Web page: Link
Marine & Environmental Law Institute,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Marine and environmental law and governance
Ingrid van Putten
Member since 2016
E-mail: Ingrid.Vanputten@csiro.au
Web page: Link
HDWG (2017-)
Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, Australia
Modelling the interaction of social and economic behaviour with the biophysical environment
Ying Wu
Member since 2016
E-mail: wuying@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
Web page: Link
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China
Marine organic geochemistry
Past members
Terms of Reference
IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee
Agreed by SCOR and Future Earth, 2017
- To develop the IMBeR Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, in accordance with guidance from the sponsoring organisations SCOR and Future Earth.
- To oversee the development and implementation of IMBeR in accordance with its Science Plan and Implementation Strategy.
- To demonstrate progress and achievements of IMBeR through the definition and monitoring of results and outputs of existing regional (ICED, SIBER, CLIOTOP, ESSAS) and national programmes, working groups and task teams.
- To encourage publication of IMBeR-related activities with appropriate acknowledgement of IMBeR, SCOR and Future Earth.
- To provide input from IMBeR and its related activities to the international scientific and policy arena.
- To engage the general public and marine stakeholders in IMBeR activities.
- To actively seek funds for IMBeR-related activities from national, regional and international funding agencies.
- To collaborate, as appropriate, with other projects sponsored by SCOR and Future Earth, and other related programmes and organisations such as ICES, PICES, WCRP, IOC-UNESCO and GOOS.
- To establish appropriate data management policies to ensure access to, sharing of, and preservation of IMBeR-relevant data, taking into account the policies of the sponsors.
- To facilitate capacity building and career development of early career scientists in topics of relevance to the IMBeR Science Plan and Implementation Strategy.
- To report regularly to SCOR and Future Earth on the state of planning and the accomplishments of IMBeR.
The IMBeR SSC, its subsidiary task teams, working groups, regional programmes and International and Regional Project Offices (IPO, RPO) shall operate in accordance with the operating procedures for SCOR and Future Earth Global Research Projects.