IOCCG FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

The Fellowship Programme of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) is aimed at providing young scientists from developing countries with the opportunity for gaining valuable training experience in the field of satellite ocean colour. Fellowships are open to scientists, technicians, graduate students and Post Doctoral students involved in any aspect of ocean-colour research relevant to the aims and objectives of the IOCCG. Funds are provided for recipients to travel to an institute outside their home country for a short period (1-3 months) to work with experts in the field. The following students have received IOCCG Fellowships.

	2005

Carolina Campillo-Campell (Spain) worked with Dr.Andrew Thomas of the University of Maine, USA. She received training on multivariate and time series analysis of merged colour and satellite data for ecosystem characterisation in upwelling regions. Fellowship dates: 1 August - 30 October 2005.

Milton Kampel (Brazil) worked with Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada and received training on estimating phytoplankton primary production by ocean-colour remote sensing. Fellowship dates: 10 July - 30 September 2005.

Gustavo Martínez (Uruguay) worked with Dr. Robert Frouin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California processing radiometric data from the BEAGLE 2003 cruise. Fellowship dates: 29 April- 30 May 2005.

Valeria Segura (Argentina) worked with Dr. Osvaldo Ulloa of the Universidad Concepcion, Chile and received training in the processing of absorption and primary production data collected during the BEAGLE 2003 expedition. Fellowship dates: 16 April- 9 July 2005.

	2004

Caiyun Zhang (China) worked with Dr. Chuanmin Hu at the University of South Florida, USA processing a complete series of SeaWiFS and MODIS (Aqua) high-resolution (1-km) datasets for Chinese waters and performed statistical analysis to compare the two datasets. Fellowship dates: 10 December 2004 - 3 March 2005.

	2003

Aurea Ciotti (Brazil) worked with Dr. Annick Bricaud (Lab. D'Oceanographie de Villefranche, France) examining procedures to retrieve biological information from ocean colour data regarding size structure of phytoplankton. Fellowship dates: 2 March 6 April 2003. Jingyu Wu (China) worked with Dr. Ken Furuya, University of Tokyo, Japan examining particulate absorption coefficients using different methods. Fellowship dates: 1 April - 31 May, 2003 Seung-Hyun Son (Korea) studied primary production modelling under the supervision of Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada. Fellowship dates: 1 June - 15 August 2003.

	2002

Leticia Espinosa (Mexico), used ocean colour imagery to study physical and biological processes in the California Current Region, with Dr. Richardo Letelier (Oregon State University, USA). Fellowship dates: 2 September 2003 - 2 November 2002. Scarla Weeks (South Africa) worked with Dr. Gene Feldman at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Washington, USA, examining ocean-colour algorithms and data for applications to South African waters. Fellowship dates: 1-15 November 2002