COMMITTEE CHAIRS

The Presidents of the six CIESM scientific committees work closely with the Director General and with each other on strategic planning, on consolidating the scientific cooperation between marine researchers on both shores, in developing an active network, in strengthening interdisciplinarity, and in leading CIESM research Workshops.

For the period 2007- 2010, the Committee Chairs elected by secret ballot during the Istanbul Congress are :

   C1 - Marine Geosciences  

Chair: Dr Gert De Lange
Fac. Geosciences, Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands

Prof. Marine Geochemistry and Chemical Oceanography at Utrecht Univ. Ph.D. Marine Geochemistry, Utrecht Univ, NL (1988); participant/coordinator of several European projects in the Mediterranean; Editor-in-Chief of Marine Geology. Research interests are mainly in Mediterranean sediments and include paleoceanographic variations, related proxies, and diagenetic changes, and the origin/composition of mud volcano fluid and gas expulsions.


   C2 - Physics and Climate of the Ocean  

Chair: Dr Jordi Font
Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC
Barcelona, Spain
fax: +34 93 2309500

B.S. 1973; Ph.D. 1986 in physics, Univ. Barcelona. In charge of physical oceanography group at ICM, currently involved in operational oceanography through EU Projects on environment and security (MERSEA), ocean forecasting (MFSTEP) and monitoring (MAMA). Led of numerous oceanographic campaigns. Research / papers focused on mesoscale dynamics of water masses, currents and eddy field in Western Med, remote sensing of salinity.


   C3 - Marine Biogeochemistry  

Chair: Dr Aysen Yilmaz
Middle East Technical University
Institute of Marine Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
fax: +90 312 210 2907
B.S. 1979; Ph.D. 1986; Prof. in Chemical Oceanography at Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University. Scholars from British Council, University of Aston, UK, 1984-85; from Fulbright/USA, Harvard University, 2002. Research and publications focused on primary production and biogeochemical cycling in the multilayer Black Sea system containing aerobic, suboxic and anoxic layers which support both photoautotrophic and chemoautotrophic biological production.

   C4 - Marine Microbiology  

Chair: Dr Urania Christaki
CNRS, Université du Littoral
Wimereux, France
fax: +33 03 219 964 01

Ph.D. in Oceanography, Univ. Aix-Marseille II (1995). Prof. of Marine Ecology, Biostatistics and  responsible of the MASTER in Oceanography at the ' Univ. of Littoral '. Responsible of the group 'Plankton Ecology' of UMR-CNRS LOG at Wimereux. Research / papers focused on microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic and Southern oceans.

   C5 - Living Resources and Marine Ecosystems  
co-Chair: Dr Ferdinando Boero
University of Salento
Lecce, Italy

co-Chair: Dr Cemal Turan
Fisheries Genetics Lab., Faculty of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mustafa Kemal Univ., Hatay, Turkey
fax: +90 326 245 58 17

Ferdinando Boero

Professor of Zoology and Marine Biology at the University of Salento. Prix Manley Bendall, Medal Albert 1er 2005 for Oceanography. Serves or has served in the editorial board of Ecology Letters, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Cahiers de Biologie Marine, Italian Journal of Zoology. Main interests: biodiversity, ecological complexity, evolution, conservation, biogeography, museum science.

Cemal Turan

B.S. 1992; M.Phil 1995, Univ. Swansea; Ph.D. 1997, Univ. Hull in population genetics. Superior Successful Young Scientist Award by Turkish Academy of Sciences. Partner in EU sixth frame work projects, leader of many national projects (TUBITAK), Research / papers / books focused on population genetics, molecular ecology, biodiversity, genetic conservation and management, phylogenetics, geometric morphometrics.


   C6 - Coastal Systems  

Chair: Dr Enric Sala
CSIC, Spain
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA
Researcher at Spain's National Council for Scientific Research, and Adjunct Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. PhD in Ecology, 1996, Université d'Aix-Marseille II. Research on marine conservation ecology, human impacts on coastal ecosystems, food webs, marine reserves. 2005 Aldo Leopold Fellow, 2006 Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, 2007 National Geographic Emerging Explorer.