Scholarships & Fellowships
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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 | Bennet Atsu Foli |
| Country of Citizenship | Ghana |
| Major Field of Study | Chemical Oceanography: Studies of impact of nutrient and trace metals on plankton distribution and harmful algal blooms in coastal environments. Other areas of research include phytoplankton identification and biomass analysis, sediment granulometric analysis, and turtle conservation studies. |
| Occupation | Scientist |
 | Gustavo Adolfo Fuentes Hernandez |
| Country of Citizenship | VENEZUELA |
| Major Field of Study | Physical and Chemical Oceanography |
| Occupation | Technician in Oceanography. Investigator assistant at EDIMAR. (Estacion de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita). |
 | Kirill Kivva |
| Country of Citizenship | Russian Federation |
| Major Field of Study | Fundamentals of oceanography and hydrochemistry. Coastal oceanography and ecology of coastal waters. Analysis of hydrological and hydrochemical structures. |
| Occupation | Master student of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Oceanology |
| Other | Bachelor degree in Hydro-meteorology from Lomonosov Moscow State University (June 2008) |
 | Lilian Anne Krug |
| Country of Citizenship | Brazil |
| Major Field of Study | Satellite Oceanography |
| Other | Lilian has BSc in Oceanography (Federal University of Paraná – 2004) and MSc in Remote Sensing (National Institute for Space Research – 2008). Has experience in work with satellite data and geoprocessing applied to coastal and ocean environments. She was a participant of POGO - Austral Summer Institute at Chile (2007) and currently a participant of NF-POGO Center of Excellence in Observational Oceanography at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Her major interests are time series analysis, physical oceanography, ocean-atmosphere interaction, climate changes and its effects on coral reefs. |
 | Olga Shatova |
| Country of Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Major Field of Study | Hydrology and ecology of estuaries |
| Occupation | Specialist degree in Geography from Lomonosov Moscow State University (June 2009) |
| Other | Bermuda Institue of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda; NF-POGO Centre of Excellence student (Aug 2009-May 2010), Training program in Obeservational Oceanography. Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine; external collaborator ( Oct 2008-Feb 2009 ), the Black Sea Estuaries Ecological State research project; water quality modeling. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, USA; intern ( Jun-Aug 2008), Coastal Ecology research project; hydrological data processing and analysis of catastrophic ecological events( e.g. harmful phytoplankton blooms) |
 | Kathleen M. Silvano |
| Country of Citizenship | Philippines |
| Major Field of Study | Biological Oceanography and Remote Sensing |
| Occupation | Researcher, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines |
| Other | Biological Oceanography: Primary production, Plankton dynamics; Remote sensing: satellite image processing, analysis and applications to primary production, fisheries, pollution |
 | Kentaro Suzuki |
| Country of Citizenship | Japan |
| Major Field of Study | Aquatic Ecology, Biogeochemistry |
| Occupation | PhD student, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Japan |
 | Hui Zhao |
| Country of Citizenship | Chinese |
| Major Field of Study | Marine Environments and ocean remote sensing |
| Occupation | Associate Researcher |
| Other | Work Unit: South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |