Chair

Anna Heiða Ólafsdóttir | Iceland
Geographical distribution, migration, life history traits, and stock assessment of small pelagic fish in the northeast Atlantic

Vice-Chair

Laura Ghigliotti | Italy
Polar marine fish diversity and adaptation

Vice-Chair

Jinyoung Jung | Republic of Korea
Chemical oceanography; Biogeochemistry

Member

Petra Heinz | Austria
Marine ecology; Microbenthos biology; (Paleo-)ecosystems

Member

Thierry Fichefet| Belgium
Sea ice-ocean interactions, polar climate, modelling

Member

Bruno Delille| Belgium
Research Keywords TBA

Member

Christine Michel | Canada
Role of sea ice in Arctic marine ecosystems; Pelagic and benthic Arctic food webs

Member

LIU Yanguang | China
Marine geology

Member

LI Tao | China
Oceanography

Member

Oleg Ditrich | Czech Republic
Parasitology; Zoology; Polar ecology

Member

Henrieka Detlef | Denmark
Paleoceanography, Sea ice, Geochemistry

Member

Dewan Ahsan | Denmark
Risk Management, Marine Resource Management, Green Transition

Member

Jukka Tuhkuri | Finland
Ice mechanics

Member

Hermanni Kaartokallio | Finland
Sea ice ecology; Microbial ecology in cold marine environments

Member

Vincent Le Fouest | France
Ocean-sea ice-biogeochemical modeling, coastal oceanography, land-to-sea interface

Member

Marie-Noëlle Houssais | France
Physical oceanography; Ocean-sea ice processes; Large-scale and mesoscale ocean variability

Member

Denise Kulhanek | Germany
Marine micropaleontology, paleoceanography, interdisciplinary polar research projects

Member

Benjamin Rabe | Germany
Physical oceanography; upper Arctic Ocean large-scale freshwater changes; mesoscale and smaller processes in ice-covered regions; autonomous instrumentation

Member

Arnab Mukherjee | India
Ocean sea-ice coupled modelling, Physical oceanography, Climate dynamics

Member

Manish Tiwari | India
Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Isotope Geochemistry

Member

Tommaso Tesi | Italy
Paleoclimatology; Geochemistry; Oceanography

Member

Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai | Japan
Chemical oceanography; Freshwater/carbon/nutrients; Climate change

Member

Mariko Hatta | Japan
Research Keywords TBC

Member

Eun Jin Yang | Republic of Korea
Polar marine ecology; Microzooplankton biology

Member

Martine van den Heuvel | The Netherlands
Polar marine biology; Ecotoxicology; Rapid assessment of non-indigenous species using eDNA

Member

Arild Sundfjord | Norway
Ocean – sea ice interaction; Regional & sub-mesoscale ocean modelling; Vertical mixing

Member

Louise Chavarie | Norway
fish, ecology, genetic

Member

Agata Zaborska | Poland
Research Keywords TBA

Member

Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller | Poland
Observational physical oceanography, ocean climate, ocean-ice interactions, autonomous observations

Member

Catarina Magalhães | Portugal
Polar Microbial Ecology; Nitrogen Biogeochemistry; Marine Microbiome standards

Member

Sergey Pisarev | Russia
Meso-scale oceanographic processes; Shot-period variations of ocean climate in the Arctic Ocean

Member

Antonio Tovar | Spain
Biogeochemical cycles of trace metals in the ocean; Marine environmental pollution; Global change

Member

Manuel D'Allosto | Spain
Atmospheric science; Marine aerosols and air quality in coastal areas

Member

Adam Ulfsbo | Sweden
Chemical oceanography, marine chemistry, carbonate chemistry

Member

Samuel Jaccard | Switzerland
biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, paleoceanography

Member

Atilla Yılmaz | Türkiye
Persistent organic pollutants, sediments, Passive sampling

Member

Claire Mahaffey | United Kingdom
Marine biogeochemistry, nutrients cycling, primary productivity and ecosystems

Member

Mark Inall | United Kingdom
Marine terminating glaciers; sub-glacial discharge plumes; fjordic mixing and exchange processes

Member

Lauren Juranek | USA
Biogeochemistry, isotopic tracers, dissolved gases

Member

Claudine Hauri | USA
Carbonate chemistry, regional modeling, co-production of knowledge

Fellow 2023

Lisa Winberg von Friesen | Sweden
Marine/sea ice biogeochemistry, nitrogen fixation, microbial ecology

Fellow 2024

Daniela Walch | Canada
Aquatic Remote Sensing, Biogeochemistry

Fellow 2025

Henry Henson | Denmark
Carbon cycling, Air-sea exchange, Ocean Freshening

Fellow 2025

Clare Gaffey | USA
Phytoplankton phenology, remote sensing

Fellow 2026

Margaret Rudolf | USA
Research methodologies, co-production of knowledge, Indigenous engagement

Fellow 2026

Monica Ogawa | Japan
Marine mammals, Inuit researcher partnerships, Trophic ecology

MWG Secretary

Neelu Singh | Norway
Microplastics, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Svalbard

 

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