National Contacts

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 37 countries.

Africa

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:

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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:

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Soukaina Zizah    National Contact for Morocco

Institut National de Recherche Halieutique, Casablanca, Morocco

Fisheries Oceanography Aquaculture

E-mail: zizah@inrh.ma    Website: Link 

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

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Asia

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:

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Wajih Naqvi    National Contact for India

National Institute of Oceanography, GOA, India

N-cycling and microbiology

E-mail: naqvi@nio.org    Website:

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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

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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 

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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

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Adnan Al-Azri    National Contact for Oman

Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod, Oman

Phytoplankton and DOM dynamics

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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:

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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

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Europe

Alberto Vieira Borges    National Contact for Belgium

University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Biogeochemistry of aquatic systems

E-mail: Alberto.Borges@ulg.ac.be    Website:

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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

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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

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Arne Kõrtzinger    National Contact for Germany

Leibniz – Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany

Marine Biogeochemistry

E-mail: akoertzinger@geomar.de    Website:

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Alexandra Gogou    National Contact for Greece

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavissos, Greece

Chemical Oceanography

E-mail: agogou@ath.hcmr.gr    Website:

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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:

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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Pavel Tischenko    National Contact for Russia

Pacific Oceanological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Chemical Oceanography, hydrochemistry of north Pacific ocean and marginal seas, geochemistry of inorganic carbon

E-mail: tpavel@poi.dvo.ru    Website:

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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North America

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

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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

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Mike Roman    National Contact for USA

Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, USA

Zooplankton ecology, food webs

E-mail: roman@hpl.umces.edu    Website: Link

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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

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South America

Alberto Piola    National Contact for Argentina

Departamento Oceanografia Servicio de Hidrografia Naval & Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmosfera y los Oceanos Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina

Regional oceanography, water masses, general circulation, ocean fronts

E-mail: apiola@hidro.gov.ar    Website:

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Anaide W. Aued    National Contact for Brazil

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil

Macroecology of benthic organisms

E-mail: anaidewru@gmail.com    Website:

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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

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Carina Lange    National Contact for Chile

Universidad de Concepción, Centro COPAS, Chile

Paleoceanography, marine diatoms

E-mail: clange@udec.cl    Website:

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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

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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

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Omar Defeo    National Contact for Uruguay

Faculty of Sciences, Montevideo, Uruguay

fisheries, climate change

E-mail: odefeo@dinara.gub.uy    Website: Link

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Australia and New Zealand

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:

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Ingrid van Putten    National Contact for Australia

IMBeR SSC Member since 2016

Chair of HDWG since 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

E-mail: Ingrid.Vanputten@csiro.au    Website: Link

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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

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