Science Advisory Working Group (SAWG)

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The EuroGOOS Science Advisory Working Group (SAWG) works to provide information and guidance on research priorities at National, regional, and pan-European levels. It helps translate these priorities into possible actions to be performed by EuroGOOS members, ROOS, Task Teams, and Working Groups.

Key Objectives

Supporting cross-cutting integration among ROOS, WGs, and TTs on scientific and technological aspects.
Supporting the implementation of the EuroGOOS strategy and development of EOOS.
Giving advice by identifying scientific gaps and addressing the scientific challenges in developing seamless modelling, monitoring and forecasting capacities, covering full-scale marine space, time and parameters, and serving public safety, blue growth, climate change adaptation, and ocean health services.
Facilitating scientific gaps and cooperation with relevant external communities, e.g. marine environment, fishery, climate change, or commercial blue-growth sectors.

List of Members

Co-chairs

Lucie Cocquempot, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France
Manfred Zeiler, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Germany

Members

Alejandro Orfila, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Spain
Anna Nikolopoulos, Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Norway
Annette Zijderveld, Rijkswaterstaat-Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands
Antonio Bonaduce, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Norway
Branko Čermelj, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia
Eric Jansen, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy
George Petihakis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece
Ghada El Serafy, Deltares, Netherlands
Giovanni Coppini, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy
Giuseppe Civitarese, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy
Helene Frigstad, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway
Henning Wehde, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Germany
Inga Lips, EuroGOOS, Belgium
Joanna Staneva, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Germany
Julien Mader, AZTI, Spain
Jun She, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark
Laura Tuomi, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
Luísa Lamas, Hidrográfico Portugal, Portugal
Manuel Ruiz Villarreal, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Spain
Marco Marcelli, Tuscia University and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy
Sebastien Legrand, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Belgium
Sara Morucci, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy
Simona Simoncelli, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy
Vidar Lien, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway