Panels
53th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics | 16-20 May 2022
Panel « Science to policy »
Moderator
Lisa Levin, Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US. Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. She is co-founder and co-lead of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative, which seeks to integrate science, technology, policy, law and economics to advise on ecosystem-based management of resource use in the deep ocean and strategies to maintain the integrity of deep-ocean ecosystems within and beyond national jurisdictions. She also helped establish and co-leads the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy, a program within GOOS. She is active in bringing climate science to policy and contributes to IPCC reports. Dr. Levin served for 6 years as Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps. Her current research interests include biodiversity of continental margin ecosystems, the effects of climate change (especially ocean deoxygenation) and human impacts on the deep ocean, with work in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
Panelists
Sheila Heymans, Director of the European Marine Board. Sheila JJ Heymans is Executive Director of the European Marine Board – the leading European marine science policy think tank - and Professor in Ecosystem Modelling at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. She has 30 years’ experience in research on the environmental impacts of ecosystem change and has published >90 peer-reviewed publications. Sheila is Co-Chair of the EOOS Steering Group and on the External Advisory Board for various projects including EuroFleetsPlus and the EU Blue Cloud. She is the editor of EMB Policy documents (http://www.marineboard.eu/publications) and her publications are here http://tinyurl.com/zf8wrcb
Julie Pullen. Physical oceanographer, climate tech professional, and former ocean engineering professor, Julie Pullen's expertise spans climate, weather and hydroscience with a particular focus on coupled high-resolution coastal prediction for flooding, heatwaves and other perils. Her air-sea interaction research has contributed to the understanding and development of resilience and sustainability in coastal environments, and the enhancement of Earth System Models on weather, subseasonal-to-seasonal, and climate timescales.
Dr. Pullen is on the Council and Executive Committee (by election) of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and was previously the elected physical oceanography Councilor for The Oceanography Society (2015-2018). Dr. Pullen was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee that reviewed the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4): Impacts and the NAS committees on Earth System Prediction (2014-2016) and Sustaining Ocean Observations (2020). She was a chapter co-author of the 2015 New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC2) report.
She works at the intersection of climate resilience and climate solutions that enhance the life-support system of our planet. She is keen to engage others in supporting ocean oxygen research through her non-profit, coroa, and broader ocean-focused investing. Her piece on deoxygenation was recently published in Scientific American (in print and online).
Iryna Makarenko, LL.M, Pollution, Monitoring and Assessment (PMA) Officer, Black Sea Commission’s Permanent Secretariat, Istanbul, Turkey
Since December, 2010 works at the Permanent Secretariat of the Commission on the Protection of Black Sea Against Pollution (Bucharest Convention), an international intergovernmental organization based in Istanbul, Turkey. In April, 2014 was elected as Pollution Monitoring and Assessment (PMA) Officer. Before moving to Turkey worked as a diplomat in the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union in Brussels being responsible for EU-Ukraine cooperation in the field of environment, transport, space, research and education; earlier as a Deputy Head of Office to Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration and as a diplomat of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. She has a Master Degree in the field of Environmental and Energy Law obtained at a Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Leuven (Kingdom of Belgium), Certificates on Water Law (University of Dundee, Scotland), Environmental Diplomacy (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Regional Economics (University of Genoa, Italy). Since April 2018 she has been a member of the Pool of Experts for United Nations Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects.
Andreea Strachinescu, Head of Unit Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment in the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, is responsible for promoting innovative and emerging technologies and solutions, and ensuring broad dissemination of marine knowledge and research. The Unit fosters innovation and provides policy input to Horizon Europe, to smart specialisation strategies and it aims to create a better understanding of the ocean resources and advocate their sustainable use. It is also in the lead for providing policy input to the investments strategies for the blue economy.
Prior to this position, Ms. Strachinescu was Head of Unit responsible for New Energy Technologies and Innovation in the Directorate General for Energy, European Commission, in charge with the development of policy and actions on non-nuclear energy research and innovation.
Thorsten Kiefer, Executive Director at JPI Ocean
As Director of the Joint Programming Initiative on Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans I was deeply involved in drafting the "Blue Economy" partnership proposal. Earlier, I have produced data as researcher in paleo-oceanography, facilitated research collaboration in international programmes (Past Global Changes, Future Earth), and currently support pan-European R&I collaboration in JPI Oceans.
Sigi Gruber
Since 1/01/2021 retired European Commission Official, but currently still working as Active Senior Advisor for the European Commission. From 2014 until 2021, she was Head of the Healthy Ocean and Seas Unit, in the Directorate General for R&I of the European Commission. The work of the Unit focused – amongst others - on co-creating the European Mission on ‘Restoring our Ocean and Waters by 2030’, it supported the UN Decade for Ocean Science, implemented the All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance and many other European/global initiatives; and shaped the marine parts of Horizon Europe, the new Research&Innovation Programme of the European Union.
Sigi Gruber started to work for the European Commission in 1991, with different responsibilities in the area of Education and Training, Researchers Careers, the European Institute for Technology (EIT), Research &Universities and International Cooperation. Prior to joining the European Commission, she worked in the public and private sector in Italy and Germany.
Panel « Citizen Science »
Moderators
Dr Véronique Camille GARCON is currently co-Chair of IOCCP SSG and of the BGC-GOOS panel. She graduated from University of Paris VII in Environmental Sciences and then became a post-doc fellow at MIT (Cambridge, USA). Recruited as an Early Career scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1985, she worked at ‘Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris’ then moved down to Toulouse with a sabbatical stay at Princeton University in 1995 -1996. Her research themes aim towards understanding and quantifying processes governing fluxes of carbon, oxygen and associated biogeochemical elements in the ocean, using in situ tracers observations, remotely sensed data, coupled physical biogeochemical modeling and data assimilation technics. She served in the JGOFS SSC, the French IFREMER Scientific Committee for 10 years, and in many national (CNRS, National Navy,..), European (ESF, EC, EGU, ERC Panel Chair..) and international scientific instances (e.g. Chair of SOLAS). She has been acting as co-director of the International SOLAS Summer Schools in 2003, 2005, 2007 with C. Le Quéré, in 2013 with M. Dai and Director in 2009 and 2011, and of the 1st GO2NE international Summer School in 2019. She is a member of the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) initiated by IOC-UNESCO, involved in the GOOD UN Decade Programme and a co-Champion of the OARS UN Decade Program outcomes. She was awarded in 2017 the IOC UNESCO Anton Bruun medal. She has supervised close to 45 early career scientists (PhDs, post-docs, engineers).
Marilaure Grégoire is Professor at the Liege University, Belgium and is head of the Fresh and Oceanic Unit of Research (FOCUS). She is graduated in physical engineering and has a PhD in Applied Sciences on the development of three-dimensional numerical models that couple the physics and biogeochemistry. As head of the Modelling for Aquatic SysTems (MAST) research group, she leads the development of modelling approaches targeted towards the understanding and prediction of the impact of human activities on health of the marine environment with a particular focus on ocean deoxygenation. She has been/is involved in several European projects as coordinator (e.g., ESA EO4SIBS), as partner (e.g., Sesame, Perseus, Hypox, BRIDGE-BS, CE2COAST, Black Sea Marine Copernicus Forecasting Center), is co-chairing the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and is co-leading the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade program. She serves as an associate editor of the journal Biogeosciences, invited editors in special issues of international journals and is member of several international working groups and scientific committees (e.g., Scientific and technical Advisory Committee of the Marine Copernicus, the Join Expert Team on Earth Observing system Design and Evolution from the World Meteorological Organization, GMMC, the NEMO Scientific Advisory Committee, Ocean Predict Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction Task Team).
Panelists
Eric Dupont, Ekkopol
Eric started his career at the French Hydrographic Survey (SHOM) and has been on board of scientific ships for Oceanographic campaigns in Atlantic, Mediterrenean sea and South Pacific. During this 7 years tenure, Eric was in charge of all Oceanographic and Hydrographic equipments on board.
He then joined Naval Group company as a project leader of a biologic sonar for nuclear submarine and of strategic missile trials.
In 2000, he founded a semiconductor start-up in California that he spearheaded for 8 years.
Back to France, he continued to help technology start-ups and SMEs as a manager or as an investor.
As a passioned sailor, he realized that Oceans are under stress because of an increasing pollution, especially the plasic pollution. Focused on coastlines, Eric co-founded Ekkopol dedicated to fight against any kind of pollution, hydrocarbons and plastics, using instrumented ships.
Eric is also scientific consultant for Ponant company, where he manages oceanographic projects on the Commandant Charcot ship, focused on Polar region projects.
Eric has a MSc in telecommunica0ons and is graduated from ENSTA bretagne university.
Fabien Roquet, Fabien Roquet is a physical oceanographer interested in the global ocean circulation and its role on the climate, working at the University of Gothenburg since 2018. His research has a strong focus on the Southern Ocean, combining new observations and numerical modeling to study its recent variability. Since 2020, he is co-chairing the GOOS emerging network AniBOS, which provides freely available oceanographic data collected with sensors attached on marine animals.
Dariia Atamanchuk 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.
Stefan Raimund is the new Scientific Advisor at The Ocean Race.
Born and raised at the coast of the Baltic sea, he early discovered his passion for sailing and windsurfing.
He earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of Rostock (Germany) and a PhD in marine chemistry from the University of Brest (France). During multiple oceanographic expeditions, he studied climate active trace gases in the ocean and the atmosphere.
Since 2015 he worked for the German SME SubCtech and managed the company’s outpost in Brittany, France. He had been in charge for the Sailing meets Science program and coordinated activities between the scientific community, the sailors, the media and the industry. Recently he took over the position as Ocean Science Program Manager.
Panel « Diversity and Equity in STEMS »
Moderator
Kirsten Isensee, Program Specialist at IOC-UNESCO, has been a programme specialist at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO since 2012. Her work focuses on ocean carbon sources and sinks, trying to distinguish the natural and anthropogenic influences on the marine environment in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She provides technical assistance to activities promoting women in ocean science and facilitates collaboration between scientists, policymakers and stakeholders, via networks such as the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network, the International Blue Carbon Initiative, the International Partnership for Blue Carbon and the Global Ocean Oxygen Network. She received her diploma and her PhD in marine biology from the University of Rostock, Germany.
Panelists
Claudia Jesus Rydin, senior program officer at the ERC, is a Geotechnical Engineer original from Portugal. In 1999, she became a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Denmark working in organic contamination of soils. Claudia then worked as a senior consultant in Denmark and later as managing director in Sweden. In 2009, Claudia moved to Brussels to join the European Research Council (ERC), where she coordinators of Earth System Science research area. At the ERC she is also coordinator of the ERC Gender Activity Group. In 2018, Claudia was nominated Chair of the newly created Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group at the European Geosciences Union (EGU). During her 3-year mandate she led numerous exciting initiatives. She remains committed to level the playing field in science to all.
Jodie Rummer, 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.
Maciej Telszewski, Director of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, holds a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), where he worked with surface ocean carbon data to develop an efficient neural network algorithm allowing basin scale mapping of this parameter in the North Atlantic. He then moved to Japan, where he joined a research group at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Tsukuba) to further improve the statistical computing approach. His work resulted in successful mapping of surface carbon and nutrients fields in the North Pacific accompanied by fluxes estimates included in the RECCAP synthesis. Throughout his research carrier he was actively involved in field campaigns, contributing surface measurements to the Surface Ocean CO2 Observing Network (SOCONET) and ocean interior measurements to the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP).
In 2011 Maciej joined the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (Paris, France) initially as a Deputy Director of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project and since mid-2012 as IOCCP’s Project Director (and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Biogeochemistry Expert Panel Executive Officer). In this role he coordinates the highly diverse set of ocean carbon and biogeochemistry activities through extensive collaboration and dialogue with the scientific community via national and international organizations, scientific steering committees, scientific workshops, and expert meetings.
Sarah Wolf is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology at Oregon State University where she works with Dr. Stephen Giovannoni and Dr. Francis Chan. Her research is focused on investigating the enzymatic biochemistry in marine ecosystems entering hypoxic states. She is an experimentalist, using mesocosms to understand the rate of microbial-driven oxygen loss in systems experiencing oxygen stress, with the ultimate goal of generating data to more tightly contain regional to global scale ecosystem models. Sarah is a prolific science communicator, and as a first generation college student, Sarah is driven to increase access to careers in research through the development of microbiology lessons and partnerships with K-12 teachers, collaborations with publishers to review STEM themed picture books, and her platform as an Instagram influencer sharing her daily life as an early career scientist.
Meutia Safira Fakhraini
Master student at Uliège (Dpt. of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography - FOCUS - MAST)
Meutia Safira Fakhraini, an MSc Student in Marine Environment & Resources (MER+) Erasmus Mundus at Universite de Bordeaux (France), Universidad del Pais Vasco (Spain), and Liege University (Belgium). Her current research interest is in Blue Carbon Ecosystem Modelling, in which she built her motivation up from her experience of living with seaweed farmers in a small coastal village back at home. She has some organizational experience in creating conservation projects, being part of Indonesia´s delegation team in UNFCCC COP 26, and bringing climate change issues to the table through Model United Nations. Currently being part of the EarlyGOOD GO2NE IOC-UNESCO network team, she is keen to explore further Sustainable Oceans Development as a young ocean scientist.
Panel « Interactions with media »
Moderator
Jodie Rummer, 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.
Panelists
Jessica Camille Aguirre is a writer whose work focuses on climate change and extremes. Her reportage has appeared at The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, n+1, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Review of Books and many others. She is currently a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT.
Melissa Lyne is an all-round communication specialist with two decades of experience connecting scientists with media and other public audiences.
Her goal is to raise the profiles of researchers and their work, and to highlight why they matter. Her approach focuses on building trusted relationships with and between researchers, stakeholders and media professionals.
Melissa's career includes a decade with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies—the world’s leading coral reef research institute. And for the past 8 years she has worked with the Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society.
As a freelance consultant, Melissa works on a range of projects that centre the environment, sustainability and climate change. Her regular clients include government agencies and research centres, as well as other organisations.
Connect with Melissa:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissalyne/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/malyne
Elsa Coudrec. Senior Science and Tech Editor
Elsa joined The Conversation France in 2020. She studied physics at the Université Pierre and Marie Curie and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris before getting her PhD on nanomaterials for renewable energy in 2011. She then pursued her research in the US and in the UK before becoming an editor for the Nature publishing house in London, where she worked for the journals Nature Communications and Nature Energy. She enjoys discussing science and tech with various audiences.
