Team and roles
The Ocean Heat Flux project team involves a consortium 9 partner institutes, led by Ifremer. In particular, while a core set of organizations will support the implementation of the data portal and processing, a group of international experts will support the project in the assessment of the Ocean Heat Flux products and results. The Ocean Heat Flux project is funded by the European Space Agency through its Support to Science Element (STSE) program, and supervised by project officer Pierre-Philippe Mathieu.
The list and respective role of the main project partners is provided here:
Organization | Experts | Role |
Institut Francais Recherche Pour L´Exploitation de la Mer | Abderrahim Bentamy | Science Leader
|
Jean-François Piollé | Responsible for | |
Bertrand Chapron | Project scientist | |
Frédéric Paul | Engineer / | |
Clément de Boyer Montégut | Project scientist | |
Nicolas Reul | Project scientist | |
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center | Igor Esau | Project scientist |
Johnny Johannessen | Project scientist | |
Rick Danielson | Project scientist | |
Plymouth Marine Laboratory | Stéphane Saux-Picard | Project scientist |
Shubha Sathyendranath | Project scientist | |
T. Platt | Project scientist | |
Mediterranean Instute of Oceanography, | Karina Von Schuchmann | Workpackage |
Deutscher Wetterdienst Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring
| Axel Andersson | Member of expert group, |
Rainer Hollmann | Member of expert group, | |
University of Reading | Chris Merchant | Expert scientist |
Keith Haines | Expert scientist | |
Univ. Maryland. USA 301-405-5330
| Rachel Pinker | Expert scientist |
Semyon Grodsky | Expert scientist | |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Carol Anne Clayson | Expert scientist |
P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS | Sergey Gulev | Expert scientist |