Regional Team: Mediterranean and Black Sea

Building local, thinking global

A regional team for Mediterranean and Black Sea

The Mediterranean and Black Sea Regional Team is the Oceanprediction DCC regional node for the mentioned region. The Regional Teams are the organizational backbone of OceanPrediction DCC community, and they are formed by individuals and organizations with very diverse background and interests: scientists and users, experts and interested persons, private and public sector, etc...

The regional team will promote Operational Ocean Forecasting Services as a key tool for Blue Economy and ocean policy. It is also supporting the coordination and the cooperation of ocean forecasting-related Decade actions in the area, and it is advocating for the regional implementation of Best Practices, Standards and Tools derived from OceanPrediction technical activity. The Regional Team is active in the design and organization of regional events for capacity building, ocean literacy and other purposes, such as courses, workshops, hackathons, etc.

Working together with the regional teams in other regions, it will form a worldwide network to achieve all the above-mentioned objectives, ensuring that regional singularities are considered during the process.

Leading the Team

Chair

Dr. Emanuela Clementi is an Environmental Engineer and has obtained her Ph.D. in Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering. She has experience in the hydrodynamics connected to wave and coastal defence structures interactions, and numerical modelling of coupled ocean-biogeochemical systems in the Adriatic Sea.

Her research activity is now mainly focused on the study of the ocean circulation of the Mediterranean Sea and her activities include the development, implementation and analysis of numerical simulations of the Mediterranean Sea circulation and sea state, and the study of wave-current interaction processes.