Developing countries currently suffer from a lack of skilled researchers in the field of international oceanography. In order to correct this imbalance, we are sending promising young researchers from developing countries for intensive studies at top-level research institutions, in order to give them the skills to enable them to study and control their country's maritime resources, forecast maritime weather and reduce the impact of natural disasters.
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![]() | Rene Ayala |
| Country of Citizenship | Venezuela |
| Major Field of Study | Phytoplankton community structure, phytoplankton space-time distribution and time series, relationship and response with environmental variables and bio-optical properties. |
| Occupation | Master Student currently working with the CARIACO time-series project. |
![]() | Dmnp Dissanayake |
| Country of Citizenship | Sri Lanka |
| Major Field of Study | Hydrographic Surveying |
| Occupation | Navy Hydrographer |
| Other | Studied Hydrography Category B in University Technology Malaysia and Category A at the National Institute of Hydrography in India (Affliated to University of Goa) |
| Ana I. Dogliotti | |
| Country of Citizenship | Argentina |
| Major Field of Study | Ocean Color remote sensing and Primary Production modeling |
| Occupation | Assistant Researcher at the National Research Council for Sciences (CONICET), Argentina. |
![]() | Sergio Cerdeira Estrada |
| Country of Citizenship | Mexico |
| Major Field of Study | Marine optics and remote sensing with a focus on the study of the sea surface temperature and ocean color. Remote sensing for the characterization of the marine habitats using multispectral images. |
| Occupation | Expert analyst in Remote Sensing. The National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO). Mexico D.F. |
| Other | PhD from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Havana, Cuba (2003). Researcher at the Institute of Oceanology, Cuba (1991-2005). Expert analyst in Remote Sensing in the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Mexico City (2005 until present). |
![]() | H.B. Jayasiri |
| Country of Citizenship | Sri Lanka |
| Major Field of Study | Oceanography |
| Occupation | Research officer |
![]() | S.U.P. Jinadasa |
| Country of Citizenship | Sri Lanka |
| Major Field of Study | Marine geology and geophysics |
| Occupation | Research officer |
| Eduardo Negri de Oliveira | |
| Country of Citizenship | Brazil |
| Major Field of Study | Ocean Color and Remote Sensing |
| Occupation | PhD student at Federal Fluminense University/Rio de Janeiro/Brazil |
![]() | W.N.C.Priyadarshani |
| Country of Citizenship | Sri Lanka |
| Major Field of Study | Chemical Oceanography with Plankton study |
| Occupation | Research officer, NARA, Sri Lanka |
| Other | B.Sc in Zoology, M.Sc in Environmental Science (pending), Interested in phytoplankton diversity and abundance in relation to Nutrient dynamics |
![]() | Eduardo Santamaria-del-Angel |
| Country of Citizenship | Mexico |
| Major Field of Study | Phytoplankton Ecology, Visible radiometrer imagery, UV radiometer imagery, Remote sensing oceanography |
| Occupation | Oceanologist |
| Marcio Silva de Souza | |
| Country of Citizenship | Brazil |
| Major Field of Study | Biological Oceanography, Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology |
| Occupation | Biologist and doctoral student |
| Other | My thesis relates to the phytoplankton communities from the Patagonian Sea and near Antarctica Peninsula as well as to the ecological connection between those areas. |
![]() | Adriana Gonzalez Silvera |
| Country of Citizenship | Brazil |
| Major Field of Study | PhD in Biological Oceanography |
| Occupation | Professor at Faculty of Marine Sciences (University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico) |
| Other | My research interests are in bio-optics and phytoplankton ecology/physiology including the use of visible radiometry imagery to estimate primary productivity. |
| Mohammad Muslem Uddin | |
| Country of Citizenship | Sri Lanka |
| Major Field of Study | Coastal and Estuarine Water Quality Modelling |
| Occupation | Ph.D in Coastal Ocean Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea. |