We are excited to inform you that Kim Currie (NIWA, New Zealand) has joined Masao Ishii at the helm of the IOCCP SSG. In her day job, Kim is a scientist with NIWA and University of Otago in New Zealand, with a focus on marine carbon chemistry. She is responsible for surface ocean carbon programmes and coastal ocean acidification observations in New Zealand, and is actively involved in a number of globally coordinated activities such as SOCAT, GOA-ON and IOCCP. You will have a chance to learn more about Kim and her take on her new role from the next issue of the IOCCP Conveyor which will be published before Easter. We are confident that IOCCP leadership is now in very capable hands as we march on our road towards sustained marine biogeochemistry observations.
We would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Toste Tanhua from whom Kim has taken over the IOCCP co-Chairmanship. Toste has enriched IOCCP with his dedicated service for the past decade and we are very grateful for his pro-active attitude and visionary leadership which benefited marine biogeochemistry and ocean observing in general. We are happy to let you know that Toste will continue his community service in his new role as co-Chair of GOOS.