Keynote Speakers
53th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics | 16-20 May 2022
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Donald E. Canfield Professor of Ecology and Villum Investigator at the University of Southern Denmark Don Canfield is Professor of Ecology and Villum Investigator at the University of Southern Denmark, having received a Bachelor's Degree in chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a PhD in geochemistry from Yale University. Don has worked at understanding the modern and ancient cycles of iron, sulfur, carbon and oxygen, and the interaction of these cycles with the evolution of life. Don’s basic scientific approach is based on exploring modern ecosystems and organisms, including organismal physiology, in interpreting geochemical signals from the geologic record. Don is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US and a foreign member of the Royal Societies of Denmark and Sweden as well a fellow of the Geochemical Society, the American Association of Microbiology, AGU and AAAS. He has received the Vladimir Vernadsky Award from EGU and the Urey Prize from EAG as well as an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Poitiér. Recently Don was awarded the title Knight of the Dannebrog. |
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William Cheung Director and Professor Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries |
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Boris Dewitte Adjunt researcher Oceanographer, University of Toulouse. Physical oceanographer interested in understanding the relationship between climatic and oceanographic variability, especially associated with El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon and the oxygen minimum zones along the Eastern Pacific. His research is carried out with interdisciplinary groups from the atmospheric sciences as well as biology.
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Sam Dupont Dr, Associate Professor at University of Gothenburg Senior Lecturer |
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Takamitsu Ito Professor & Chair of OSE Graduate Admissions School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Babette Hoogakker Babette Hoogakker is Associate Professor in Palaeoceanography and Climate Change at the Lyell Centre at Heriot-Watt University. She receiver a PhD in Marine Geology from Southampton University, and has worked as a postdoc (University of Cambridge) and Research Fellow (University of Oxford) before joining Heriot-Watt University in 2017. Babette is interested in the relationship between the global biogeochemical cycles (especially oxygen and carbon) and the evolution of the oceans and climate. |
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Hans-Otto Portner Professor and Head of the Department of Integrative Ecophysiology at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research |
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Laure Resplandy Assistant Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University |
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Dr Vladimir Ryabinin Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO
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Jeremy Testa Associate Professor at the UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory |
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Jodie Rummer Biography: Dr. Jodie Rummer’s background is in marine biology and comparative physiology. She is currently an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at James Cook University and Research Associate at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. But, prior to joining JCU, Jodie’s academic training started in the U.S. (BSc and MSc degrees from the University of West Florida), took her to Canada (PhD from the University of British Columbia), and then to Hong Kong for a short post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Rummer joined JCU in 2011 as an ARC Super Science Fellow (2011-2014), continued on as an ARC Early Career Discovery Fellow (2015-2017), and was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2017. Internationally, Dr. Rummer is also on the editorial board for three scientific journals and, in 2020, was invited to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee (IOC) advisory panel on global deoxygenation (Global Oxygen Network, GO2NE), which is part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program. Dr. Rummer has accolades for her research as well as her capacity to communicate and connect her findings to broad and diverse audiences. She received the highly prestigious UNESCO-L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship for Australia and New Zealand and the Society for Experimental Biology’s President’s Medal, was named one of Australia’s top 5 scientists under the age of 40 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Radio National (RN), presented a TEDx talk (“Athletes of the Great Barrier Reef”), was named one of the Women in Science Ambassadors for the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, & Science, and was awarded Queensland’s Tall Poppy outstanding early career researcher, scientist of the year in 2019. Jodie gave the President’s lecture at the New England Aquarium in Boston and was an invited speaker at the Gills Club Symposium “Shark Tales: Women Making Waves” and educational outreach day in 2017. Jodie gave a Planet Talk at WOMADelaide in 2019, which was attended by over 100,000 people, regarding the harmful effects of oil drilling and pollution on marine life, which was featured in short documentary called Wild Waters and covered by the Adelaide Review, the ABC, and Sustainable Home Hub. Jodie also spoke at the World Science Festival in Brisbane in 2019 on “Saving what we’ve got: Australia’s wildlife under threat” and “Let’s talk: Sharks”, both sold out events reaching in person and online audiences exceeding 100,000. Dr Rummer spoke at the 2021 Global Biodiversity Festival, is currently a spokesperson for the Climate Media Centre, and also works closely with Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Reef Census. Jodie and her team, through the work of Tom Vierus, produced an 8-minute documentary covering their ongoing (since 2013) shark research in French Polynesia, which debuted at the New York City Wildlife Conservation Film Festival and four other Film Festivals so far (with >25,000 reached on social media) as well as two short videos (check them out here and here). Jodie has also discussed her team’s shark research on National Geographic Wild, Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin, and on Discovery Canada and Shark Week (see Twitter and Facebook for short clips). Over the course of her career, Dr. Rummer has researched fish buoyancy, exercise, and is a leading authority on the evolution of oxygen transport and how fish maintain performance during stress. Today, Jodie’s team combines physiology, ecology, and evolution to address issues important to conservation, such as the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic problems on coral reef fishes, sharks, and rays and the potential for adaptation. Jodie has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 13 book chapters as well as dozens of editorials, and she has presented her work at more than 100 professional conferences and public events worldwide. You can find out about Dr. Rummer’s research and her lab at www.jodierummer.com and www.physioshark.org, on Instagram (@RummerLab and @physioshark), Facebook (Physioshark Project), and on Twitter (@physiologyfish) where she communicates scientific findings, highlights fellow scientists’ success stories and achievements, and advocates for issues related to women in science, gender equity, and diversity in STEM. |
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Andrew Altieri Dr. Andrew H. Altieri is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Florida. He earned his B.A. in Marine Biology from U.C. Santa Cruz and Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Biology from Brown University. Dr. Altieri was a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama before joining the faculty at UF. His research group examines the response of coastal ecosystems to global change. Dr. Altieri’s research group is interested in how anthropogenic factors (e.g., species extinction, invasions, habitat degradation, climate change, overfishing) interact with biodiversity, species interactions, and emergent ecosystem functions. Much of his work has focused on the dynamics of ecologically important habitats created by living organisms including corals, mangroves, seagrass, and shellfish. Of particular interest is the study of ecological impacts of ocean deoxygenation. This work, which started in temperate estuaries, has shifted to tropical ecosystems and grown to employ an interdisciplinary approach that spans from organismal responses to community interactions. |
Dariia Atamanchuk Research Associate Dariia (Dasha) Atamanchuk is a Research Associate at the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Canada. Dariia holds a PhD in Marine Chemistry from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and have been involved in the oceanographic sensor development for the most part of her doctoral and postdoctoral work. Her research focuses on the use of sensors and autonomous platforms for sustained biogeochemical ocean observations. She’s a research scientist on the SeaCycler project, an autonomous underwater winch profiler, and the Volunteer Observing Ship project (VOS) at Dalhousie University. Dariia collaborates nationally and internationally with industry and institutional partners (NOAA-PMEL, Scripps, GEOMAR, MUN, etc). Her scientific interests cover air-sea fluxes, ocean productivity measurements, mechanisms of supply and transport of CO2 and oxygen in the Northwest Atlantic and the Labrador Sea, in particular. Dariia maintains her involvement in international inter-comparison exercises of submersible, underway and bench-top instrumentation for dissolved gases, carbonate system measurements and nutrients. |
