Gliders Task Team
EuroGOOS Gliders Task Team was established in 2015 to sustain and support the European part of the global glider community and contribute to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the framework for European Ocean Observing System (EOOS).
Gliders, buoyancy-driven observing platforms, are present in various areas of the European seas, to carry out a large variety of measurements of physical and biogeochemical variables.
The EuroGOOS glider Task Team aims at integrating and leveraging the efforts of the European glider community. EuroGOOS glider Task Team is a highly functioning user group community that advances and optimizes European underwater glider activities to support EuroGOOS strategy and EU initiative on Ocean Observations and technological development. It will act as an expert group to provide high level information to stakeholders and promote the importance of ocean observations under the framework of EOOS.
Key objectives
- Support the coordination of the European glider activities;
- Assist the standardization of glider operations, data and applications;
- Ensure data availability for the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), via the EuroGOOS regional data portals (ROOS) in particular;
- Generate and promote best practices in applications, technologies, data management, and scientific development;
- Jointly contribute to European projects.
Carlos Barrera
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)
Spain
Pierre Testor
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
France
Members
Ailin Dale Brakstad
University of Bergen (UiB)
Norway
Ángel R. Santana
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Spain
Ayah Lazar
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)
Israel
Corentin Guyot
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)
France
Emma Salter
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
United Kingdom
Ilker Fer
University of Bergen (UiB)
Norway
Joao Tasso
Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS-FEUP)
Portugal
Laurent Coppola
Sorbonne Université
France
Marck Smit
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
Netherlands
Peter Thijsse
Marine Information Service (MARIS)
Netherlands
Tal Ozer
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)
Israel
Álvaro Lorenzo
National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
United Kingdom
Anna Rubio
AZTI
Spain
Bastien Queste
University of Gothenburg (GU)
Sweden
Dan Hayes
Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI)
Cyprus
Estelle Dumont
Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
United Kingdom
Inês Martins
Instituto Hidrografico (IH)
Portugal
Justin Buck
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
United Kingdom
Lucas Merckelbach
(HZG)
Germany
Matthew Palmer
National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
United Kingdom
Raquel Somavilla
IEO-CSIC
Spain
Wieter Boone
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Belgium
Ana Martins
Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA)
Portugal
Antony Bosse
Aix-Marseille University
France
Benjamin Casas
SOCIB
Spain
Elena Mauri
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS)
Italy
Evi Bourma
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)
Greece
Jacopo Chiggiato
National Research Council (CNR) ISMAR
Italy
Kimmo Tikka
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Finland
Mark Hebden
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
United Kingdom
Paul Gaughan
Marine Institute (MI)
Ireland
Taavi Liblik
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
Estonia
European and international initiatives and projects
Antonio Novellino
EMODnet
Laurent Mortier
EU GROOM II project
Soeren Thomsen
EU EuroSea project
Victor Turpin
OceanOPS (IOC-GOOS)
Elisabeth Remy
Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS)
Matt Mowlem
EU TechOceans project
Thierry Carval
CORIOLIS
Jaume Piera
EU MINKE project
Patrizio Mariani
EU Mission Atlantic project
Vanessa Cardin
MonGOOS
EuroGOOS facilitation
Dina Eparkhina
Senior Policy Officer
Terms of Reference
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