Member Countries and IAPSO National Correspondents
Full contact details of the Member Adhering Bodies and National Committees is available on the IUGG website.
Here we report only title, name and affiliation of the IAPSO National Correspondents.
Member Country |
National Correspondent |
Affiliation |
Algeria |
Prof. Mostepha Boulahdid |
Ecole Superieure des Sciences de la Mer et de l’Aménagement du territoire (ESSMAL), Algiers |
Argentina |
Dr. Laura A. Ruiz Etcheverry |
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires |
Australia |
Prof. Trevor McDougall |
University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney |
Azerbaijan |
Acad. Prof. Dr. Ramiz Mammedov |
Institute of Geography, ANAS, Baku |
Belgium |
Prof. Thierry Fichefet |
Université catholique de Louvain, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research Earth and Life Institute, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve |
Brazil |
Prof. Edmo Campos |
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanográfico, São Paulo |
Bulgaria |
Prof. Dr. Atanas Palazov |
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna |
Canada |
Dr. Peter Galbraith |
Maurice Lamontagne Institute Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Pelagic and Ecosystem Science Branch, Mont-Joli |
Canada |
Dr. Jennifer Jackson |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, British Columbia |
Chile |
Rear Admiral Arturo Oxley |
Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (SHOA), Valparaíso |
China |
Prof. Dr. Xueen Chen |
Ocean University of China, Qingdao |
Colombia |
Almirante Juan Manuel Soltau Ospina |
Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas - CIOH, Cartagena |
Costa Rica |
Dr. Alejandr Gutierrez |
Universidad Nacional, Heredia |
Croatia |
Dr. Nastjenjka Supic |
Center for Marine Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Rovinj |
Croatia |
Dr. Miroslava Pasaric |
Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb |
Member Country |
National Correspondent |
Affiliation |
Denmark |
Prof. Markus Jochum |
University of Copenhagen, Department of Geophysics, Copenhagen |
Egypt |
Prof. Dr. Mostafa Mousa Mohamed Rabah |
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Benha |
Estonia |
Prof. Jüri Elken |
Department of Marine Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn |
Finland |
Dr. Heidi Pettersson |
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki |
France |
Dr. Pierre Testor |
Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d'océanographie et du climat, Paris |
Georgia |
Prof. Demuri Demetrashvili |
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi |
Germany |
Prof. Dr. Arne Biastoch |
GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel |
Ghana |
Dr. Charles Gyamfi |
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Department of Civil Engineering, Kumasi |
Greece |
Prof. Costas Synolakis |
Academy of Athens, Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Athens |
Hungary |
Dr. László Horváth |
Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest |
Iceland |
Prof. Dr. Jón Ólafsson |
Marine Research Institute and University of Iceland, Hafnarfjörður |
India |
Prof. K. S. Krishna |
Centre for Earth and Space Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
Indonesia |
Dr. rer. nat. Mutiara Rachmat Putri |
Institute of Technology of Bandung (ITB), Research Group of Oceanography, Faculty of Earth Science and Technology, Bandung |
Iran |
Prof. Dr. A. Ali-Akbri Bidokhti |
Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran |
Ireland |
Dr. Martin White |
Earth and Ocean Sciences National, University of Ireland, Galway |
Israel |
Prof. Hezi Gildor |
The Hebrew University, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem |
Member Country |
National Correspondent |
Affiliation |
Italy |
Dr. Katrin Schroeder |
CNR - Istituto di Scienze Marine, Venezia |
Italy |
Dr. Andrea Cucco |
CNR - Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino, Torregrande |
Japan |
Prof. Toshiyuki Hibiya |
The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo |
Korea (Republic of) |
Prof. Young Ho Kim |
Pukyong National University, Department of Oceanography, Busan |
Latvia |
Dr. phys. Vilnis Frišfelds |
University of Latvia, Riga |
Luxembourg |
Dr. Norman Teferle |
University of Luxembourg, Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Médicine, Luxembourg |
Mauritius |
Ms. Reena Gopal Nursimhulu |
Mauritius Oceanography Institute, France Centre, Quatre Bornes |
Mexico |
Dr. Miguel Angel Alatorre Mendieta |
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, Ciudad de México |
Morocco |
Dr. Abdellatif Orbi |
Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (INRH), Casablanca |
Mozambique |
Mr. Senibaldo Canhanga |
Téc. Superior de Tranp. e Communicações, Instituto N. Hidrografia e Navegação, Maputo |
Netherlands (The) |
Prof. Caroline A. Katsman |
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft |
New Zealand |
Dr. Stephen Chiswell |
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington |
Nigeria |
Prof. Oliver Chinagoro Ojinnaka |
University of Nigeria, Dept. of Geoinformatics & Surveying, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Enugu |
Norway |
Dr. Ingrid E. Ellingsen |
SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim |
Pakistan |
Dr. Ali Rashid Tabrez |
National Institute of Oceanography, Clifton Karachi |
Peru |
Dr. Luis Pizarro |
Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Callao |
Member Country |
National Correspondent |
Affiliation |
Peru |
Contralmirante Hector Soldi |
Dirección de Hidrografia y Navegación de la Marina, Callao |
Poland |
Prof. Dr. Jacek Piskozub |
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Sopot |
Romania |
Dr. Viorel Gheorghe Ungureanu |
National Institute of Marine Geology & Geoecology - GeoEcoMar, Bucharest |
Russia |
Dr. Peter O. Zavialov |
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow |
Saudi Arabia |
Dr. Abdul Nasser Alkotab |
Saud Geological Survey (SGS), Jeddah |
Slovenia |
Dr. Matjaz Ličer |
National Institute of Biology, Marine Biological Station, Piran |
South Africa |
Dr. Raymond Roman |
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch |
Spain |
Dr. Elena Tel Pérez |
Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Madrid |
Sweden |
Prof. Agatha de Boer |
Stockholm University, Dept. of Geological Science and Bolin, Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm |
Thailand |
Capt. Sanit Gansungnoen, RTN |
Oceanographic Division Hydrographic, Department Royal Thai Navy, Bangkok |
Turkey |
Maj. Eng. Emre Gülher |
Office of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography, Istanbul |
United Kingdom |
Dr. Katy Sheen |
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn |
United States |
Oceanographer Dr. Renellys Perez |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami |
Uruguay |
Dr. Gustavo Nagy |
Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo |
Vietnam |
Prof. Dr. Bui Cong Que |
Institute of Geophysics VAST, Hanoi |
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