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 Instruments & sensors

Dariia Atamanchuk

Research Associate - Ocean Science & Technology, Chemical Oceanography

Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI), Dalhousie University

Halifax, Canada

Dariia (Dasha) Atamanchuk is a Research Associate at the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Canada. Dariia holds a PhD in Marine Chemistry from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and have been involved in the oceanographic sensor development for the most part of her doctoral and postdoctoral work. Her research focuses on the use of sensors and autonomous platforms for sustained biogeochemical ocean observations. She’s a research scientist on the SeaCycler project, an autonomous underwater winch profiler, and the Volunteer Observing Ship project (VOS) at Dalhousie University. Dariia collaborates nationally and internationally with industry and institutional partners (NOAA-PMEL, Scripps, GEOMAR, MUN, etc). Her scientific interests cover air-sea fluxes, ocean productivity measurements, mechanisms of supply and transport of CO₂ and oxygen in the Northwest Atlantic and the Labrador Sea, in particular. Dariia maintains her involvement in international inter-comparison exercises of submersible, underway and bench-top instrumentation for dissolved gases, carbonate system measurements and nutrients.

Andrew Dickson

Professor - Marine Chemistry

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California, San Diego, USA

Craig Neill

Research Engineer

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

Hobart, Australia

Craig Neill has been working as a research engineer at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere in Hobart, Australia since 2009, where he has developed new technology for ocean carbon measurements and underway observing systems on ships.  From 2003-2009 he was at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen where he developed one of the first systems for accurate multipoint calibration of oxygen optodes. From 1994 – 2003 he ran a small company in Seattle developing, manufacturing and utilising numerous systems for measurement of dissolved gasses in the ocean, including TCO₂, CFC’s, SF₆ and an underway pCO₂ system which has ben used as the basis for one of the most common commercial systems (General Oceanics). At Brookhaven National Laboratory (1992-1994) he developed a system for measuring pCO₂ of discreet water samples. Craig’s work has always been very hands on, having participated in over 50 research cruises.  He has a BS in Physics from Washington State University. 

Craig maintains an ongoing interest in best practices and education. He was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee and lecturer at the 2015 IOCCP Sensors Summer Course and a is a contributor to the Guide to Best Practices for Ocean CO₂ Measurements.

Anders Tengberg

Product Manager & Scientific Advisor

Xylem/Aanderaa Data Instruments AS

Bergen, Norway

Ellen M. Briggs

Assistant Professor - Ocean & Resources Engineering

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Honolulu, HI, USA

Ellen M. Briggs holds a PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she primarily focused on developing an in situ pH and Total Alkalinity (AT) sensor that utilizes ion sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) technology bringing it from proof of concept to early-stage field deployment. She continues to advance the technology readiness level of the pH-AT sensor in her current position as Assistant Professor in the Ocean and Resources Engineering Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Briggs’ research group is very diverse with national and international students coming from various backgrounds ranging from Chemistry to Mechanical Engineering. Her group primarily focuses on adapting the ISFET-based pH-AT sensing technology for a variety of applications including benthic sampling, probing boundary layers of coral, monitoring mesocosm experiments, and integration with various platforms such as moorings and drifters. Briggs has been involved in programs such as the SOCCOM (Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling) project, the OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data Best Practices working group, participated in several GO-SHIP cruises including as Co-Chief, and is actively involved in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal discussions with associated monitoring, reporting, and verification.

Jannine M. Lencina Avila

Research scientist

Marine Chemistry Department

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Rostock, Germany

Jannine is a research scientist specialist on the marine carbonate system and is currently a member of the RETAKE project, working on understanding the benefits and impacts of applying alkalinity enhancement in the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea. Since her Master's, she has gained experience working with all four main carbonate system parameters using different instruments, such as underway pCO₂ and closed-cell titration systems. Jannine holds a Ph.D. in Oceanologie from Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France, where she assessed the acidification status of Southern Ocean areas by applying a range of carbonate system data sets and performing in-situ total alkalinity and total inorganic carbon measurements. In recent years, she has focused on improving spectrophotometric pH measurements in coastal waters by assessing state-of-the-art pH measuring systems, which results have collaborated to strengthen coastal monitoring programs. Jannine participated in the 2019 edition of the IOCCP BGC training course and is excited to collaborate this year!

Adrienne Sutton

Assistant Professor - Oceanography, University of Washington

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Seattle, WA, USA

Adrienne is an Oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at University of Washington’s School of Oceanography in Seattle, U.S.  Her research group focuses on advancing our understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and how it is changing over time. Her team maintains almost 40 moored autonomous time series around the globe in open ocean and coastal ecosystems that track air-sea CO₂ exchange and ocean acidification.  Her recent publications focus on characterizing natural variability and long-term anthropogenic trends using time series observations and models, uncertainty in observation-based CO₂ flux estimates, and modern-day exposure of marine organisms to corrosive carbonate chemistry conditions.  Adrienne also collaborates with her team and PMEL engineers on observing technology development.  This team was part of the first autonomous circumnavigation of Antarctica in 2019 and has transferred two autonomous air-sea pCO₂ observing technologies to industry and nonprofit partners. 

Adrienne is incredibly passionate about mentoring the next generation of oceanographers, especially those underrepresented in the ocean sciences and also has experience in science communication and policy. Adrienne’s dedication to marine biogeochemistry will no doubt help IOCCP provide our services to the community via a variety of well-designed and efficiently implemented activities.

Yui Takeshita

Scientist - Oceanography

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Moss Landing, CA, USA

Yui received his PhD in Oceanography from the University of California, San Diego. Yui’s main research interests are to develop and apply autonomous sensing technology to observe marine biogeochemical cycles in situ. Most recently, Yui was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, at Stanford. Yui has received several honors, including the Excellence in Partnership Award from the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the University of California San Diego Directors Fellowship, and the undergraduate academic honor cum laude.

Giorgio Dall'Olmo

Scientist - Earth Observation

Nathan Briggs

Scientist - Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems

National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

Southampton, UK

Maciej Telszewski

Director - International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project

institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Science (IO PAN)

Sopot, Poland

Maciej Telszewski holds a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), where he worked with surface ocean carbon data to develop an efficient neural network algorithm allowing basin scale mapping of this parameter in the North Atlantic. He then moved to Japan, where he joined a research group at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Tsukuba) to further improve the statistical computing approach. His work resulted in successful mapping of surface carbon and nutrients fields in the North Pacific accompanied by fluxes estimates included in the RECCAP synthesis (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/reccap/). Throughout his research carrier he was actively involved in field campaigns, contributing surface measurements to the Surface Ocean CO₂ Observing Network (SOCONET) and ocean interior measurements to the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP, http://www.go-ship.org/).

In 2011 Maciej joined the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (Paris, France) initially as a Deputy Director of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP, http://www.ioccp.org/index.php ) and since mid-2012 as IOCCP’s Project Director (and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Biogeochemistry Expert Panel Executive Officer). In this role he coordinates the highly diverse set of ocean carbon and biogeochemistry activities through extensive collaboration and dialogue with the scientific community via national and international organizations, scientific steering committees, scientific workshops, and expert meetings.

Peter Landschützer

Research Director

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Ostend, Belgium

Peter Landschützer received his Master of Science degree in Environmental Systems Science from the University of Graz (Austria) in 2011. In July 2014, he completed his PhD on the variability of the global ocean carbon sink at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England). From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland before joining the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and eventually becoming group leader of the research group 'Observations, Analysis and Synthesis'. Since 2022 he now serves as Research Director at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) where he oversees the research developments of the department.

While being interested in many aspects of the ocean in the Earth system, Peter's research focus is set on ocean biogeochemistry and the marine carbon cycle. His expertise ranges from CO2 measurements through big data modelling using artificial neural networks. The outcome of his work - particularly those building on the Self-Organizing Maps Feed-Forward Network (SOM-FFN) neural network method he developed - has become one of the gold standards in the determination of the role of the ocean for the global carbon cycle, and has served as the basis for a number of highly important papers. This includes his 2015 Science paper on the reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink, which demonstrated, for the first time, the importance of decadal variations for the ocean carbon sink, or his demonstration that the seasonal cycle of surface ocean pCO2 has increased substantially in recent decades, with potential important consequences for marine life (Nature Climate Change, 2018). For this and other achievements, Peter was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Scientist award of the Ocean Science division of the EGU in 2019.

Jessica Garwood

Assistant Professor

Oregon State University

USA

Jessica Garwood is an oceanographer who seeks to elucidate the fundamental dynamics that govern small-scale physical-biological interactions, particularly as they relate to plankton or sediment. Her work combines high-resolution, in situ observations with numerical models, and includes new technology development.

Jessica currently holds a joint position with Oregon State University and NOAA. She received her PhD from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and her Master's degree from Dalhousie University.

Mario Esposito

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research

Kiel, Germany

Mario Esposito's research interests are marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography with focus on carbon cycling and inorganic nutrients dynamics. Following his master’s degree in Oceanography at the University of Southampton, he has been involved in several cruises providing measurements of seawater carbon species (DIC, TA, DOC, POC) and nutrients (NO3-, NO2-, PO43-, Si(OH)4 and NH4+). During his PhD he worked with stable carbon isotopes to investigate biogeochemical responses of marine ecosystems to human CO2 perturbation. He was then involved in the STEMM-CCS project as a postdoc and his main task was the assessment of water column baseline from discrete sampling and in-situ deployment of commercial and novel chemical sensors.

Based at GEOMAR he is currently involved in the AIMS3 project where he will be monitoring water column conditions at potential CO2 storage sites via sensor measurements from landers and ROV deployments. He is also involved in the development of a new sensor for in-situ measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC).