The IOCCG Committee consists of members drawn from national space agencies and the ocean-colour community, selected to reflect a balance of both providers and users of ocean-colour data as well as geographical location. The term of service is usually three years except where the member’s participation is governed by a space agency nomination. Rotation of members is being implemented according to a roster.
Mark Baird
Group Leader, Marine Systems Modelling & Informatics
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
GPO Box 1538, Hobart 7001, Australia
Paula Bontempi
Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
215 South Ferry Rd.
Narragansett,
RI 02882, USA
Corinne Bourgault-Brunelle
Canadian Space Agency
Sun-Earth System Sciences – Space Utilization
Saint-Hubert, Quebec J3Y 8Y9
Canada
Vittorio Brando
CNR – ISMAR
Via Fosso del Cavaliere,
100 – 00133 Roma,
ITALY
Bob Brewin
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Exeter,
Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ
UK
Aurelien Carbonniere
CNES
18 avenue Edouard Belin
31401 Toulouse Cedex 9
France
Prakash Chauhan
Director, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
ISRO, Dept. Space, Government of India,
4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun
248001, Uttarakhand, India
Jongkuk Choi
Korea Ocean Satellite Center (KOSC),
Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST)
787 Haean-ro, Sangrok-gu, Ansan-si, 426-744
South Korea
Aurea Ciotti
CEBIMar USP – Centro de Biologia Marinha,
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
Emmanuel Devred
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
P.O. Box 1006, 1 Challenger Dr.
Dartmouth, N.S.
Canada B2Y 4A2
Ana I. Dogliotti
Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics
CONICET/UBA Pabellon IAFE
Ciudad Universitaria
(C1428EGA) C.C. 67-Suc. 28.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Claudia Giardino
CNR-IREA
via Bassini 15
20133 Milano
Italy
Steve Groom
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
Space Park Leicester
Corporation Road
Leicester, LE4 5SP
UK
Xianqiang He
State Key Laboratory SOED
Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA
Hangzhou, 310012
Peoples Republic of China
Chuanmin Hu
College of Marine Science,
University of South Florida,
140 7th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
USA
Wonkook Kim
Pusan National University
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering
South Korea
Ewa Kwiatkowska
Sentinel-3 Optical Scientist
EUMETSAT
Am Kavalleriesand 31, D-64295 Darmstadt
Germany
Laura Lorenzoni
Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry Program
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW
Washington, DC, 20546
USA
Tim Malthus
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit
Coastal Sensing and Modelling Group
Brisbane,
Queensland
Australia
Frédéric Mélin
EC Joint Research Centre – IMW,
TP272,
21020 Ispra
Italy
Hiroshi Murakami
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)
2-1-1, Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505
Japan
Marie-Hélène Rio
ESA – European Space Agency
ESRIN Frascati
Data Applications Division
Italy
Shubha Sathyendranath (CHAIR)
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
Prospect Place
Plymouth
Devon, PL1 3DH
UK
Carolina Tauro
Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Menghua Wang
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
NCWCP E/RA3, Room 3228,
5830 University Research Ct.
College Park, MD 20740
USA
Jeremy Werdell
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 616, Greenbelt
MD 20771
USA
Cara Wilson (PAST-CHAIR)
NOAA / NMFS
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Monterey, CA 93940
USA
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.