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METS-RCNgears

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

Nick Bates

BIOS and BATS

Chemical Oceanographer and Director of Research

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

Bjoern Fiedler

University of Kiel/GEOMAR and CVOO (Cape Verde Ocean Observatory)

Marine chemist

Rod Johnson

BIOS

Deep sea oceanography

Naomi Levine

University of Southern California

Oceanographer with research interest in microbial ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycling, and experience using METS data in numerical models, chair of OCB time series committee

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

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.

Raquel Somavilla

Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Ocean-atmosphere interaction, upper ocean mixed layers to deep waters variability; from midlatitudes to polar oceans