The Agency Co-Chairs and Scientific Co-Chair will coordinate the Task Force on Remote Sensing of Marine Litter and Debris. Scientific Co-Chair will be a rotating post every two years, drawn by the Task Force Executive Committee. Executive Committee members, consisting of the Core Topic Coordinators, will be nominated by the Task Force Co-Chairs.
Each Core Topic will have a Coordinator responsible for gathering expert members and coordinate the discussions with the goals to achieve the Expected Outcomes.
Consultants and non-member experts will be invited to attend meetings when a particular subject or objective is to be addressed.
Agency Co-Chairs
Paolo Corradi (Agency Co-Chair)
ESA,
Netherlands
Email: paolo.corradi@esa.int
Laura Lorenzoni (Agency Co-Chair)
NASA HQ,
USA
Email: laura.lorenzoni@nasa.gov
Debashis Mitra (Agency Co-Chair)
ISRO,
India
Email: mitra@iirs.gov.in
Hiroshi Murakami (Agency Co-Chair)
JAXA,
Japan
Email: murakami.hiroshi.eo@jaxa.jp
Scientific Co-Chair
Manuel Arias
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM – CSIC)
Spain
Email: marias@icm.csic.es
Founding Members & Core Topic Coordinators
Manuel Arias (Coordinator of Algorithms and Applications)
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM – CSIC)
Spain
Email: marias@icm.csic.es
Lauren Biermann (Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Aspects)
PML, UK
Email: lbi@pml.ac.uk
Francois-Regis Martin-Lauzer
ARGANS, France (Founding Member)
Email: FMartin-Lauzer@argans.co.uk
Victor Martinez-Vicente (Coordinator of Technologies)
PML, UK
Email: vmv@pml.ac.uk
Shungudzemwoyo Garaba (Coordinator of Datasets)
University of Oldenburg,
Germany
Email: shungu.garaba@uni-oldenburg.de
Associate Members
François Galgani
IFREMER, France
Email: francois.galgani@ifremer.fr
Jose Luiz Moutinho
Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre), Portugal
Email: jose.moutinho@aircentre.org
Marko Perkovic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Carolina Sá
Portuguese Space Agency
Email: carolina.sa@ptspace.pt
The sixth International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting will take place in Darmstadt, Germany from 1 – 4 December 2025, hosted by EUMETSAT and ESA with support from other agencies.