Steering Committee

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.From 2015 to 2021 Adrienne served as co-chair of the Biogeochemistry Task Team of the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 (TPSO2020): a groundbreaking effort that implemented for the first time the Framework for Ocean Observing’s user-driven and variable-focused design.  She also serves on the steering committees of OceanSITES, Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA), and the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON). She is active in the community data quality control efforts of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) and research capacity building efforts through the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator Development Expert Group.  She has also developed trainings on monitoring strategy design and data quality control and management best practices with GOA-ON, the IOC-UNESCO and other 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.

The Ocean Thematic Centre exists to support marine observing systems for high quality long term observations of greenhouse gases via the provision of standard gases, databasing, helping stations provide the highest quality observations and opening up access to new technology. Before joining ICOS-OTC Dr Sanders served as the Chair of the Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems group at National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in Southampton, UK, a position he has held since 2012. He has undertaken research into the Biological Carbon Pump, the biologically mediated storage of carbon in the oceans interior which controls climate, land ocean carbon transfers and the oceanic uptake of CO₂ from the atmosphere.

At IOCCP Richard will lead our continuous efforts to create a much more robust surface ocean carbon observing system for monitoring ocean carbon uptake. A system that is capable of reporting annually on the state of the ocean carbon sink based on globally coordinated network of observatories, submitting FAIR data of known and feasible quality to recognized data management system approved by the global community.

Steve’s career has covered many aspects of marine carbon cycle science. He has been on multiple research cruises to take ocean interior carbon measurements, and collected surface CO₂ measurements from instrumentation installed on a commercial ship. He developed a method for interpolating surface CO₂ measurements to obtain global estimates of air-sea CO₂ fluxes, contributing to the Surface Ocean pCO₂ Mapping Intercomparison. He has also contributed analyses to the annual Global Carbon Budget and the RECCAP synthesis.

Steve’s current focus is developing software to support moving marine biogeochemical observation onto a more operational footing, standardising and automating data processing, quality control and publication where possible and developing tools for those activities that cannot (or should not) be automated. Much of his work benefits the European Research Infrastructure: Integrated Carbon Observing System – Ocean Thematic Center, directly supporting the scientists and engineers collecting data. He is also involved in data publication through projects such as SOCAT, GLODAP, EU Copernicus and EU ENVRI-FAIR, working to ensure that data is as open and accessible as possible.

Steve will continue IOCCP’s mission to help the whole community produce and use FAIR data of known quality as smoothly as possible.

She integrates and tests new sensors on autonomous observing platforms, including BGC-Argo floats, and combines these observations with global datasets such as SOCAT and GLODAP, as well as machine-learning approaches, to improve constraints on ocean carbon exchange. Her recent work spans high-resolution carbonate-system measurements, passive-acoustic wind retrieval from profiling floats, and global assessments of biological-carbon-pump redistribution.

Within the Horizon Europe TRICUSO project, Louise develops methods to retrieve in situ wind speeds from acoustic sensors integrated into biogeochemical Argo platforms, with the goal of improving estimates of the Southern Ocean CO₂ sink. She also contributes to observing-system simulation experiments (OSSEs) that quantify how these new autonomous data streams reduce uncertainties in regional and basin-scale air–sea CO₂ fluxes, supporting the design of next-generation carbon-cycle observing strategies.

As an early-career member of the SOCONET Steering Committee, she is committed to advancing the inclusion of emerging autonomous measurements within coordinated network frameworks, strengthening interoperability across platforms, and improving the robustness, quality control, and accessibility of global surface-ocean CO₂ observations.

During his time here, Vlad has improved his knowledge on available pCO2 instrumentation, publishing several intercomparison studies and participating as a core working group member in the ICOS pCO2 Instrument Intercomparison 2021. Since 2024, he has joined the SOCAT Global Working Group as an expert sensor user.
Part of the SOCONET SC, Vlad will work towards the goal of a global sustained network of ocean carbon observations by encouraging and facilitating SOCAT data submissions, with a particular goal of improving our network of observations in the Black Sea.

Sebastiaan is currently also chairing the training and outreach committee of the European Association of Geochemistry, and contributing to the ICES working group on Fisheries Benthic Impacts and Trade-offs (WGFBIT) and the Research Coordination Network for Marine Ecological Time Series (METS-RCN). Within SOCONET, he will be exploring the requirements to allow inclusion of carbon isotopic signatures into the SOCAT data product, as well as expanding the reach of SOCONET by supporting training activities by building upon the training efforts of the ocean acidification network.

Currently, Rodrigo is the Coordinator of the CARBON Team research group at FURG, Co-Chair of the Brazilian Ocean Acidification Network (BrOA) and High Latitude Oceanography Group (GOAL), and member of the SSC of the National Ocean Observation and Monitoring Network (INCT-ReNOMO). The latter aims to implement pCO2 sensors (and expand pH sensors) on the current SiMCosta national program of buoys along the entire Brazilian coastline. He is also contributing to the activities of the National Institute of Science and Technology of the Cryosphere and National Institute of Science and Technology of the Blue Amazon Biodiversity, being responsible to sample and analyses of the marine CO2-carbonate system variables on multiple ocean cruises in the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean. He is also a full member of the SCOR Working Group 168: Coordinating the Development of Gridded Four-Dimensional Data Products from Biogeochemical Argo Observations (4D-BGC). Recently, Rodrigo served as co-chair of the Latin American Ocean Acidification Network (LAOCA) and as a member of WSDM Working Group of SOOS. Rodrigo also has been responsible to coordinate several oceanographic cruises in the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean, and supervised PhD and Master’s candidates on the themes of Marine Biogeochemistry.

Within SOCONET, Rodrigo aims to integrate and facilitate the connection between this network and those within Latin America, mainly through the current networks (e.g. LAOCA, REMARCO, BrOA, INCT-ReNOMO etc.) working on measure the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) from ships, buoys and moorings, and also encouraging the acquisition of high-quality data under the FAIR principles.

Craig has a broad interest in improving the quality of surface ocean pCO2 measurements through instrument development, training and inter-comparison exercises.  Recent development work includes quantifying uncertainties in the water vapour corrections of gas analysers, adding N2O measurement capability to underway pCO2 systems and a novel method for high-accuracy DIC measurements.  Craig’s interest in training has seen him heavily involved in all 3 of the IOCCP’s summer courses on biogeochemical sensors.  He has participated in 4 international pCO2 inter-comparison exercises, helped organise the 2021 ICOS-OTC pCO2 Instrument Intercomparison, and has run several small at-sea inter-comparisons to improve understanding of instrument performance and identify the source of uncertainties.  

In SOCONET Craig will strive to support continuous improvement in the quality and quantity of surface ocean greenhouse gas measurements.  He will advocate for inter-comparisons both large and small to understand the cause of disagreement between sensors; improved training on the installation & use of sensors and QC of data, and continuous improvement in sensor technology.