Dr. Roger Harris
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

Dr. Roger Harris (R.harris@pml.ac.uk) is a Senior Scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. His main research interests are: the control of biological production by physical processes, the role of water column biology in global oceanic carbon flux and the ecology and physiology of calanoid copepods. He has considerable experience in international and interdisciplinary project management. He is past Chairman of the IGBP/SCOR/IOC GLOBEC Steering Committee and continues to serve on the GLOBEC SSC and leads the Focus 2 Process Studies Working Group. He is a past chairman of the ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology and remains active in the working group. Currently a member of the EUR-OCEANS Network of Excellence Executive Committee. Involved in a number of editorial roles, principally as Strategic Editor of the Journal of Plankton Research.

Dr. Yunne-Jai Shin
IIRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), CRH, Sète, France

Yunne-Jai Shin received her PhD degree in Biomathematics and Fisheries in 2000 at the University of Paris 7. Since 2001, she is an IRD permanent researcher, specialised in ecosystem modelling, size-based theory, trophic ecology, and indicators analyses. She developed the multispecies fish model OSMOSE, allowing to produce a wide range of ecosystem indicators, and to simulate various multispecies and spatial fishing scenarios (e.g. instauration of Marine Protected Areas). Recent developments are being made for building an end-to-end model OSMOSE-NPZD-ROMS of the Benguela ecosystem. Y. Shin is also involved in the international research on ecosystem indicators, and has been chairing several WG and Task Teams, such as the Eur-Oceans WG “EAF indicators: a comparative approach across ecosystems”, the SCOR/IOC 119 task team on “Size-based indicators”. She participates actively to the European Network of Excellence “Eur-Oceans”, and has been invited as a member of three Task Teams “Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries”, “Models interfacing”, “Upwelling Systems”.

Dr. Gerhard J. Herndl 
 Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Reseach, Netherlands

Gerhard J. Herndl received his PhD degree in zoology on the ‘Feeding ecology of sea anemones’ at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 1982. While being Post Doc in the lab of Prof. Farooq Azam at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA), he began to work on the formation and degradation processes of marine snow combining controlled lab experiments with field observations, mainly done in the Adriatic Sea.

In the early 90ies, his main research focus was put on the role of ultraviolet radiation on the photochemical transformation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and on its influence on bacterioplankton activity. In the year 1993, G.J. Herndl became Associate Professor at the Dept. of Marine Biology of the Univ. of Vienna and in1997, Head of the Dept. Biological Oceanography at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Since 1999, he is also Professor of Biological Oceanography at the Univ. of Groningen. At the NIOZ, his team focused its research on the changes in the structure of prokaryotic communities induced by changes in the physico-chemical environment such as UV radiation but also in response to phytoplankton blooms and accompanied alterations in the DOM pool. Over the past five years, his research interests are the biogeochemistry and microbiology of the major deep water masses driving the oceanic conveyor belt. Gerhard J. Herndl has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

EUR-OCEANS Young Scientist Award
       
          Dr. Antonio Tovar-Sánchez
          Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Spain

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez received his B.Sc. in Marine Sciences in 1995 at the University of Cádiz. From 1995 to 2000 he was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Cádiz. He received his M.Sc. in Marine Sciences in 1997, and three years later, in 2000, his Ph.D. in Chemistry. The main topics of his Ph.D. dissertation include development and optimization of automatic techniques for the analysis and speciation of inorganic nutrients in seawater, and the study of environmental impacts of the  intensive aquaculture in marine waters.

 

For the period August 2001- June 2004, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the Marine Sciences Research Center at the Stony Brook University, New York. His primary research activities included biogeochemical cycles of metals and nutrients in the ocean and their interactions among atmosphere, waters, biota and sediments, as well as the optimization and development of analytical methods and techniques in environmental chemistry. Currently he is a researcher within the “Ramón y Cajal” program at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC), Mallorca. Antonio Tovar has published more than 15 peer-reviewed publications in the most important and specialized scientific journals on the field, such as Nature, Analytical Chemistry, Limnology & Oceanography, and Marine Chemistry among others.