Ramasamy Venkatesan
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Chennai India
Dr. Ramasamy Venkatesan is Head of Ocean Observation Systems at NIOT India and holds a Ph.D. in marine pollution management. He was responsible for the Indian moored buoy network, including tsunami early warning systems, as part of the Arctic moored observatory. He was PI for the NOAA RAMA buoy program and served under the UNEP Regional Seas Programme.
Venkatesan holds a postgraduate diploma in maritime law and has 38 years of professional experience. Now, he serves as a Chair of GRA Council GOOS IOC; Vice Chair of WMO SG OOIS; member of the Steering Committee of GOOS; and Chair of the International Tsunameter Partnership, among others.
He has received many different awards, including the UN JCOMM Outstanding services certificate; Lockheed Martin Award National Geoscience Award; Fellow MTS; NACE Fellow; National Award from MoES and Chartered Marine Technologies; as well as a Guinness World Record. He has, to his credit, three patents; eleven products; three books; 135 papers; Fulbright Scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA; Senate member and Syndicate member appointed by State Governor; Adjunct Professor Teaching Ocean Policy & Ocean Instrumentation.
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
