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(status as of October 2020)
Name
Status
Expertise
Affiliation

Albertus J. (Han) DOLMAN

Chairman

Soil carbon, Fluxes

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
VU University Amsterdam,
The Netherlands


Sue BARREL Member Integrating observing systems

Honorary Affiliate, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia


Qingchen CHAO

Member

Climate data and management

Deputy Director General
China Meteorological Administration
National Climate Centre, China


Johnny JOHANNESSEN

Member

Ocean

Research Coordinator, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway


Amos KABO-BAH

Member Energy, Hydrology

Professor, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, UENR
Ghana Earth Observation Research and Innovation Centre (EORIC), Ghana


Hartwig KREMER

Member

Adaptation

UN Environment (UNEP)
Head of Global Environment Monitoring Unit of Science Division, Kenya


Sybil SEITZINGER

Member

Global environmental change, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient dynamics, Land/ atmosphere/ ocean interactions

Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria, Canada


Youba SOKONA

Member

Climate policy in particular for developing countries, Mitigation strategies

Special Advisor on Sustainable Development
South Centre, Geneva


Kazuto SUDA

Member

Atmospheric environmental science

Director, Atmospheric Environment Division Global Environment and Marine Department,
Japan Meteorological Agency,  Japan


Toshio SUGA Member Ocean

Program Director, International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences 
Tohoku University, Japan


Michael ZEMP Member Glaciers

Director, World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)/ Department of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse, Switzerland


Ex-officio Steering Committee Members

Sabrina SPEICH

Co-Chair, OOPC

Ocean physics, air-sea interactions, ocean observations, nonlinear dynamics, numerical modeling, process studies

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
Institut Simon Laplace
Paris, France


Weidong YU

Co-Chair, OOPC

Indian Ocean Observing, TPOS 2020

National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center 
Director, State Oceanic Administration 
Beijing, China
 


Peter THORNE

Chair, AOPC

Remote sensing and products

National University of Ireland Maynooth
Geography Department
Maynooth, Ireland


Thelma KRUG

Chair, TOPC

Forest Monitoring and Climate Change Impacts

National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil



Vacant

To be nominated by the Global Framework of Climate Services (GFCS) board 

 

 

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