Establishing a national German Decade Committee
A German Decade Committee was established to coordinate the implementation of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Germany. After a corresponding call for self-nominations to all partners relevant for the decade, the members of the committee were picked by a selection committee at the end of September. Dr Simon Jungblut, in his function as ICYMARE Organizer, was selected as one of the NGO members of the committee. A first meeting took place on Friday, 23 October 2020.
ICYMARE with seatin the German DecadeCommittee
The task of the committee will be to advance the practical implementation of the decade in Germany. It will involve all relevant stakeholders as best as possible and maintain a close exchange with the office of the German Marine Research Consortium KDM. More information about this committee and its work plans will be posted in the coming weeks.
Members od the German Decade Committee
(2021 – 2023, in alphabetical order)
- Dr Werner Ekau, Director mdWb | Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen
- Marcella Hansch, Founder and CEO | Pacific Garbage Screening e.V., Aachen
- Cora Hörstmann, Doctoral Candidate| Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
- Dr Simon Jungblut, Co-Founder and Organizer | ICYMARE, Bremen
- Dr Karin Kammann-Klippstein, President | Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH), Hamburg
- Dr Steffen Knodt, Board member | German Association for Marine Technology e.V. (GMT), Hamburg
- Prof Dr Karin Lochte, Board Member| German Marine Research Alliance e.V. (DAM), Berlin
- Gesine Meißner, MdEP und MdL a.D., Wennigsen
- Dr Hanieh Saeedi, Section Head| Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt/Main
- Heike Vesper, Section Head | Internationales WWF-Zentrum für Meeresschutz, Berlin
- Prof Dr Martin Visbeck, Leiter Physikalische Ozeanographie | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel
