Bennet Atsu Foli
Oceanographer, University of Ghana Regional Marine Centre
Bennet Atsu Foli is an oceanographer at the Regional Marine Centre, University of Ghana. He holds a B.Sc. in Oceanography and Fisheries from the University of Ghana, a postgraduate certificate in Ocean Observatories from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and an M.Phil. in Oceanography from the University of Ghana.
Since 2018 and as part of his work as an oceanographer at the University of Ghana, he has been involved in the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and Africa project, an EU and AUC sponsored project. Previously, he worked as an associate oceanographer (oceanography thematician) and Communication and Visibility Officer at the University of Ghana on the Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa project, sponsored by MESA – EU.
Foli is also the co-author of a number of peer-reviewed publications, including A WAVEWATCH-III Model Approach to Investigating Ocean Wave Source Terms for West Africa: Input and Dissipation Source Terms (RSESS. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-021-00065-y) and Evaluation of ECMWF and NCEP reanalysis wind fields for long-term historical analysis and ocean wave modeling in West Africa (RSESS. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-021-00052-3).
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Jerome Aucan
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Claudia C. Baron-Aguilar
Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community
Silvia Chacon-Barrantes
Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Simone Pennafirme
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
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Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Raul Salazar
Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama
Ria Sen
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Sebastian Unger
Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico