The Science Advisory Group
Leading scientists in the field of Antarctic research make up the Science Advisory Group (SAG) of the AWR.
Read more about their role in the Science Advisory Group Terms of Reference.
To contact the Science Advisory Group, please use the email address science@antarcticfund.org.
Dr. So Kawaguchi
Marine Ecologist
Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia
Summary: So is a Principal Research Scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division and leads the Australian krill research program. His research focuses on various aspects of Antarctic krill biology & ecology, including studies into climate change impacts on krill, with strong interests in krill fishery management in the Southern Ocean. So is the current Convener of the CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management.
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DR. CHRISTOPHER D JONES
Research Fishery Biologist
Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, NOAA, La Jolla CA United States
Summary: Antarctic marine scientist and policy advisor with specialty in Antarctic finfish, benthic invertebrate megafauna, and related ecosystems. Chief scientist and leader of NOAA’s Antarctic finfish research program. Alternate representative of U.S. delegation to CCAMLR Scientific Committee and advisor to U.S. Commission delegation. Former chair of CCAMLR Scientific Committee and numerous working groups. U.S. technical coordinator for the U.S. Southern Ocean scientific observer program. Prior research career in research and stock assessments of highly migratory and high seas fish species, and advisor in U.S. delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
Email: chris.s.jones@noaa.gov
Website: https://swfsc.noaa.gov
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Dr. Gennadi Milinevsky
Head of the Space Physics Laboratory
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary: Research scientist with publication record on the atmosphere physics and ecology in Antarctic and in Chernobyl contaminated area. Main fields of interests: atmosphere research: stratosphere, ozone layer and ozone depletion, aerosols in the atmosphere, planetary waves. Study climate change processes and their influence to ozone layer and ecosystems, and radioactive contamination impact on environment and ecosystem. More than 50 peer-reviewed publications with an H-index of 11. Gennadi is the permanent adviser of the Ukraine Delegation at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Website: http://antarctica.org.ua/
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Dr. Taro Ichii
Research Coordinator for Oceanography and Resources
National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Yokohama, Japan
Summary: Research scientist with publication record on krill in the Antarctic and squid in the North Pacific. Current main fields of interests are impacts of climate regime shift and fisheries on dominant epipelagic nekton. Serves as the representative of the Japanese delegation for the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR.
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Dr. Andrew Lowther
Southern Ocean predator ecologist
Norwegian Polar Research Institute, Tromso, Norway
Summary: Quantitative research scientist focussing on how marine predators exploit their environment. Over ten years field-based biological experience across a suite of marine organisms from southern right whales to Antarctic skuas. Recently appointed, Andrew is the Norwegian Polar Institute's representative to CCAMLR.
Website: www.npolar.no
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Dr. ELISA SEYBOTH
Marine ecologist
Whales & Climate Research Program
Cape Peninsula University of Technology,
South Africa
Summary: Elisa is a Brazilian oceanographer who has been dedicating to cetaceans ecology in the Southern Hemisphere, especially regarding climate influences on their habitat use, diet and reproductive success. She was awarded with a CCAMLR scholarship for the 2018-2019 term and has been the national representative of Brazil in the SC-CAMLR since 2017. Elisa is a member of the Brazilian High Latitudes Oceanography Group (GOAL-FURG) and of APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) International Council.
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Dr. XINLIANG WANG
Fisheries Acoustician
Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute,
China
Summary: Summary: Xinliang’s research focuses on the methodological development of fisheries acoustic and its application in fish stock assessment, with an emphasis on the study of Antarctic krill. In 2012, he was awarded the CCAMLR scholarship. Xinliang is the current Co-convenors of the Working Group on Acoustic Survey and Analysis Method (WG-ASAM).
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Dr. Prof. Bettina Meyer
CHair of the science advisory group
Ecophysiology of pelagic key species
Section Polar Biological Oceanography
Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Summary: Bettina’s research focuses on the plasticity of Antarctic krill to climate induced environmental changes from an organismic, cellular and genetic perspective. Her additional interests are on the role of endogenous clocks as driver of important seasonal life cycle functions and the role of krill in biogeochemical cycles. Bettina is the German representative for the krill stock assessment in CCAMLR.
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Dr. HYOUNG SUL LA
Fisheries acoustician, Division of Ocean Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
Summary: Hyoung Sul’s research focuses on observations of polar marine ecosystems from zooplankton to marine mammals using the active and passive acoustic systems, addressing how environmental changes could influence their behaviour and distribution. His current interests are in estimating zooplankton and krill biomass distribution in polar oceans. Hyoung Sul has provided science-based advice at SC-CAMLR as a Korean delegation member, and started his tenure in SAG in October 2021
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Dr. Rodolfo Werner
Dr. Rodolfo Werner serves as Scientific Advisor to the AWR.
Senior Advisor (Antarctica & Southern Ocean)
Pew Charitable Trusts & Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)
Bariloche, Argentina
Summary: born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rodolfo graduated as biologist from the University of Buenos Aires, obtained a PhD in Biology at the University of Munich, Germany, and conducted a Postdoc in Marine Zoology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He focuses his work on Antarctic marine conservation, especially on issues such as the management of Antarctic krill fisheries, penguin conservation and marine protected areas. Rodolfo has an extensive list of publications and presentations on Antarctic science and policy, and has been attending meetings of CCAMLR and the Antarctic Treaty since 2003 as representative of ASOC.
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