Manuel Arias
Ocean Physical Modelling Program Manager, ARGANS France, and Senior Earth Observation Scientist, ICM-CSIC
Manuel Arias is an expert in satellite-based remote sensing, an area he started to work in in 2003, with a special emphasis on research and development of novel applications for Oceanography, Climate Sciences and Environment.
In 2013, after working for 10 years at the University of Cádiz (Spain), he joined ARGANS Ltd (United Kingdom), and was transferred to ARGANS France in 2018. Since November 2021, he has been working for the research institute ICM-CSIC (Spain). His expertise relates to space-based observations of Salinity, Ocean Heat Content and Marine Litter.
Since 2016, Arias has led a number of projects for the development of Earth observation capabilities devoted to marine litter, and in particular macro plastic litter, with a special focus on the use of optical data for detection, classification and identification of floating debris. These activities include feasibility studies for a mission concept, and exploitation of Sentinel-2 and VHR data for marine litter mapping from space.
In 2020, he co-founded the IOCCG Taskforce aimed at merging the international effort in this context, which counts on support from the NASA, ESA, JAXA and ISRO space agencies.
A Clean Ocean: Speakers & Moderators
Steven Adler
CEO and founder, The Ocean Data Alliance and Pre-Vetted Digital Transformation Crisis Consultant, UNDP
Manuel Arias
Ocean Physical Modelling Program Manager, ARGANS France, and Senior Earth Observation Scientist, ICM-CSIC
Gina Bonne
Officer in Charge/Head of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Indian Ocean Commission
Angelika Brandt
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Laura Cimoli
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Colin Devey
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Elva Escobar Briones
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Judith Gobin
Head of Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Simon Jungblut
Project Manager of “FACE-IT” at the Department of Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany
Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Director of State Key Lab. of Marine Pollution, Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
Clara Manno
Clara Manno, Pelagic Marine Ecologist at BAS and co chair, SCAR Plastic in the Polar Environments Working Group
Jessica Nilsson
Chair, PAME, the Arctic Council’s work on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
Torben Riehl
Research Scientist, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Volker Rieke
Head of “Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development”, BMBF
Alex David Rogers
Science Director, REV Ocean, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Tanja Stratmann
Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
David Vousden
Chair, United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection