Leadership
The METS RCN steering committee consists of representatives from renowned long-running METS such as HOT (Hawaii Ocean Time Series), BATS (Bermuda Atlantic Time Series Study), CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations), and from complementary NSF-funded ocean observing efforts including OOI (Ocean Observatories Initiative) and marine LTER (Long-term Ecological Research) sites. Additional data expertise from BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre; also OCB (Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry) and BCO-DMO (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management) representatives.
Steering Committee Members
Heather Benway*
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chemical Oceanographer, lead PI of OCB Project Office
Danie Kinkade*
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Director of BCO-DMO and ocean data expert
Angelique White*
University of Hawai'i
Biological Oceanographer and lead PI of HOT
Justin Buck
National Oceanography Centre
Senior marine data manager at BODC
Pier Luigi Buttigieg
MPI-Bremen
Microbial ecology, Bioinformatics, Ecoinformatics, Multivariate analysis, Ontology development
Kim Currie
University of Otago and NIWA
Marine carbonate chemist, Principal Investigator on the Munida Time Series
Steve Formel
USGS
Lance Fujieki
University of Hawai'i
Biogeochemical and computer specialist with HOT
Dana Gerlach
BCO-DMO/WHOI
Audrey Mickle
BCO-DMO/WHOI
Rut Pedrosa
Marine Biological Laboratory
Nico Lange
GEOMAR
Oceanographer with experience in ship-based BGC data QC and synthesis products, current PhD researcher, starting hands-on with the CVOO time-series
Frank Muller-Karger
University of South Florida
Todd O'Brien
NOAA/NMFS
Oceanographer and developer of statistical and visual methods for analyzing METS data, led projects including COPEPOD (Coastal and Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, and Observation Database), and IGMETS (International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series
Margaret O'Brien
UCSB
Information manager for the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project (SBC LTER)
Fernando Carvalho Pacheco
Univ. Hawai’i
Research Associate, HOT
Al Plueddemann
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Physical oceanographer and OOI Project Scientist for Pioneer and Global arrays
Erin Satterthwaite
CalCOFI & California Sea Grant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Marine ecologist who works at the interface of applied marine research, policy engagement, and science communication to advance ocean knowledge for sustainability.
Adam Shepherd
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Technical director of BCO-DMO and data scientist
Raquel Somavilla
Instituto Español de Oceanografia
Ocean-atmosphere interaction, upper ocean mixed layers to deep waters variability; from midlatitudes to polar oceans