Herve Damlamian
Team Leader, Ocean Prediction and Monitoring, Pacific Community (SPC)
As head of the Ocean Prediction and Monitoring Team at the Pacific Community (SPC), Herve Damlamian serves as an interface between science and decision-makers. SPC is an international development organization owned and governed by its 26 Pacific Island countries and territories and it is the principal scientific and technical organization for the Pacific Region.
Damlamian joined SPC in 2005 as a numerical modeler and fell in love with the Pacific Island countries, its people (especially his wife!) and its cultural wealth, which he discovered while undertaking fieldwork throughout the region.
Early in his career, he was confronted with the impact of natural disasters while conducting post-disaster surveys. This profoundly shaped his professional development and boosted his motivation to develop scientific tools and knowledge to strengthen the resilience of coastal communities in the region. Over the last decade, Damlamian and his team have been working toward supporting risk-informed decision-making in the Pacific region, either through the delivery of probabilistic inundation hazard assessment or more recently through the development of regionally tailored, innovative inundation forecast systems.
Predicted Ocean: Speakers & Moderators
Angelika Brandt
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Beth Fulton
Lead, Integrated Marine Management, CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
Deputy Director, Centre for Marine Socioecology
Judith Giblin
Senior Technical Officer in Oceanography in the Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division/ Pacific Community
Melissa Iwamoto
Director and Principal Investigator, Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
Marjolaine Krug
Senior Scientific Advisor, OCIMS, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)
Mojib Latif
Professor, University of Kiel and researcher, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Roshan T Ramessur
Co-Chair OA-Africa
Advisory Member, The Ocean Foundation
Associate Professor, University of Mauritius
Derrick Snowden
Chief, Operations Division, US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office at NOAA/National Ocean Service
Detlef Stammer
Professor and Director of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, University of Hamburg
Janice R. Trotte-Duhá
Special Adviser, Directorate-General for Scientific, Technological and Nuclear Development of the Brazilian Navy
Ramasamy Venkatesan
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Chennai India
Martin Visbeck
Professor of Physical Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University
