Steven Bograd
Supervisory Research Oceanographer, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Institute of Marine Sciences (UCSC), USA
Dr. Steven Bograd is an oceanographer at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey, CA, and holds an adjunct faculty position at the Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California-Santa Cruz. His research is focused on climate impacts on marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on eastern boundary upwelling systems. Bograd is currently Co-Chair of two UN Decade of Ocean Science Programs, SmartNet and SUPREME, and co-chairs the Advisory Panel on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Fisheries Oceanography. Bograd received B.Sc. degrees in physics and atmospheric sciences from the University of Arizona, an M.Sc. in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the University of British Columbia, followed by a post-doctoral appointment at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was born and grew up in Mississippi, USA, but has spent most of his adult life on the U.S. West Coast.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Zaidy Afrin
UN Fellow of Government of Grenada´s Blue Innovation Institute & Ph.D. Candidate at World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Vera Agostini
Deputy Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Kristal Ambrose
Founder and Director, Bahamas Plastic Movement; Ph.D. Candidate, World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Steven Bograd
Supervisory Research Oceanographer, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Institute of Marine Sciences (UCSC), USA
Jens Brandenburg
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Isabella Lövin
Chair, Stockholm Environment Institute & Co-chair, Friends of Ocean Action & Author, Sweden
Carolyn Lundquist
Associate Professor at University of Auckland, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
Flower E. Msuya
Senior Researcher, Founder & Chairperson, Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative, Tanzania
Christian Müller
Head of marine resource exploration, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
Alexis Papathanassis
Professor for Cruise Tourism Management, the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Angelique Pouponneau
Policy Adviser to the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Seychelles
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, France
Jörn Schmidt
Chair of Science Committee, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark
Merete Tandstad
EAF-Nansen Programme Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy