Regional Team: West Pacific & Marginal Seas of South and East Asia

Building local, thinking global

A regional team for West Pacific & Marginal Seas of South and East Asia

The West Pacific & Marginal Seas of South and East Asia 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

Swadhin K. Behera is a leading scientist in global ocean and climate research, especially he is known for  discoveries of several modes of tropical and extratropical climate variations such as IOD and IOSD. After obtaining a Ph. D. degree from India and working for about 10 years in Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, he moved to JAMSTEC in 1998. Since then he has been associated with various centers and programs of JAMSTEC and currently heads the Application Laboratory.

He also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Ocean Technology, Policy and Environment at the University of Tokyo and as a visiting professor at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur. He has published more than 150 articles in highly cited international journals with an average citation of 40 and an h-factor of 37, and presented many invited talks and key-note speeches. He has also appeared in several radio and television programs.

At the beginning of his career, he has developed and worked with various ocean models to simulate the ocean circulation and temperature variations. He has then actively managed an EU-Japan collaborative project to develop the SINTEX-Frontier coupled GCM for climate studies using the Earth Simulator. The SINTEX-F is a leading climate model in the world for climate predictions on seasonal-to-decadal time-scales. The predictions are used in several outreach programs for societal benefits.

Organizing the activities and ensuring the connection between the different components of OceanPrediction DCC

Steering team

Yosuke Fujii
Ocean Observing | Physical oceanographer, Japan Meteorological Agency, Meteorological Research Institute
David Griffin
Ocean forecasting: physics | Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Tasmania, Australia
Fangli Qiao
Ocean forecasting: physics | Professor, Director General , First Institute of Oceanography, Minsitry of Natural Resources, China
Bin Xiao
Ocean forecasting: physics | Researcher, First institute of oceanography, China
Hakase Hayashida
Ocean forecasting: Biogeochemistry | Researcher, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Nuttida Chanthasiri
Ocean forecasting: Biogeochemistry | Researcher, Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand
Fadli Syamsudin
Ocean forecasting: Climate | Professor, BRIN/University of Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Masami Nonaka
Ocean forecasting: Climate | Group Leader, JAMSTEC
Young-Gyu Park
Ocean health | Principal Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
Aileen Tan
Ocean health | Director, Centre For Marine & Coastal Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Anne Claire Goarant
Ocean health | Manager Climate Change Environment, Pacific Community
Fujiang Yu
Digital ocean , including DT | Director, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center - NMEFC, China
Yasumasa Miyazawa
Digital ocean , including DT | Researcher, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Simon Weppe
Connection with users | Ocean Scientist, MetOcean, New Zealand
Andri Ramdhani
Connection with users | Head of Division for Marine Meteorology Information, Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency, Indonesia
Vo Si Tuan
Capacity building | Senior Researcher, Institute of Oceanography Nha Trang City, Viet Nam
Cesar Villanoy
Capacity building | Professor, University of the Philippines
Molly Powers-Tora
Ocean Literacy | Team Leader, Pacific Community, Fiji
Augy Syahailatua
Ocean Literacy | Director of Research Centre for Deep Sea, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Song Guan
Policy and legal aspects at the region | Associate Research Professor, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Ocean Management and Literacy, China
Steven Victor
Policy and legal aspects at the region | Minister Agriculture Fisheries, and the Environment, Palau
Dakui Wang
Digital ocean , including DT | Researcher, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center - NMEFC China
Adi Rameyo
Director for Centre of Marine and Fisheries Socio-Economics Research
Kick off meeting

Agenda

Kick-off meeting

Replay Part I & Part II