Archived Sessions

Ministerial Sessions

• Opening Concert
• Welcome Remarks
• AIR Centre: Vision, Mission, Current Status, and Selected Projects
• Ministerial Meeting
• Presentation of the Philadelphia Declaration
• Brief Remarks from High-Level Representatives: Global Challenges and Local Action: How Space and Ocean Sciences Can Support Economic Recovery and Job Creation in a Post-Pandemic World

Blue Economy for Post-Pandemic Recovery

• Jen McCann, Coastal Resources Center, URI, USA Moderator
• Miguel Marques, PwC, Portugal
• Gregory Watson, IADB
• Erik Giercksky, UN Global Compact
• Claire Jolly, OECD

Marine Spatial Planning

• Sally Yozell, Stimson Center, USA Moderator
• Juan Ronco, European Commission
• Tammy Warren, Government of Bermuda, Bermuda
• Michele Quesada Da Silva, IOC-UNESCO
• Marta Vergilio, Regional Fund for Science, Azores, Portugal
• Mandy Lombard, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

Coastal Pollution

• David Yoskowitz, Harte Research Institute, USA Moderator
• Olivia Oliveira, IG/UFBA, Brazil
• John Paul Unyimadu, NIOMR, Nigeria
• Luiz Paulo Assad, LAMCE/COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
• Eduardo Silva, INESCTEC/ISEP, Portugal
• Paolo Corradi, ESA, Italy

Mangroves

• Esperança Costa, Secretary of State of Fisheries, Angola Moderator
• Yara Schaeffer-Novelli, USP, Brazil
• Alexandra Rodriguez, INVEMAR, Colombia
• Bubu Jallow, GOTG/GEF/UNEP, Gambia
• Antonio Queiroz, UFBA, Brazil
• Foster Mensah, CERSGIS, Ghana

Coastal Processes

• João Lorenzetti, INPE, Brazil Moderator
• Victoria Coles, UMCES/HPL, USA
• Marcelo Rollnic, IG/UFPA, Brazil
• Ffion Atkins, UCT, South Africa
• José Lino Costa, CoastNet, MARE, FCUL, Portuga
• Francisco Campuzano, Maretec/ IST, Portugal

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021 – 2030: Opportunities for Atlantic Engagement

• Julian Barbiè‌re, Chief of Section, Marine Policy and Regional Coordination, Ocean Decade Focal Point, IOC-UNESCO Moderator
• Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, IOC-UNESCO
• Alison Clausen, Programme Specialist, IOC-UNESCO, Paris, France
• Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Manager US NWS Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program, Member of Ocean Decade Executive Planning Group, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• Mika Odido, IOC Coordinator in Africa, IOC’s Sub Commission for Africa & the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA), Kenya, Africa
• Edward Senkondo, Researcher and Member of Informal Working Group for Early Career Professionals of the Ocean Decade

Extreme Weather

• Greg Jenkins, Penn State, USA Moderator
• Giovanni Coppini, CMCC, Italy
• Jenni Evans, Penn State, USA
• Nuno Moreira, IPMA, Portugal
• Mark Guishard, Bermuda Weather Service, Bermuda
• Marc de Vos, SA Weather Service, South Africa

Floods

• Andrew Kruczkiewicz, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, USA Moderator
• Obassi Ettu, RMRDC, Nigeria
• Marco Tedesco, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
• Jose Luiz Zezere, IGOT, Portugal
• Lafayette Dantas da Luz, UFBA, Brazil

Sea Level Rise

• Jerry Miller, Science for Decisions, USA Moderator
• John Englander, USA
• Richard Alley, Penn State, USA
• Klaus Keller, Penn State, USA
• Melanie Luck-Vogel, CSIR, South Africa
• Hans-Peter Plag, Old Dominion University, Germany

Coastal Erosion

• Jimmy Adegoke, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Moderator
• Goncalo Vieira, IGOT, Portugal
• Landim Dominguez, UFBA, Brazil
• Sergio Ávila, Azores, Portugal
• Christine A. Omuombo, University of Nairobi, Kenya
• Joni Backstrom, UNC Wilmington, USA

International Collaboration

• Leah Mupas Segui, NOAA, USA Moderator
• Jon White, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, USA
• Emily Smail, GEO Blue Planet
• Abdoulaye Diagana, Abidjan Convention Secretariat (UNEP), Ivory Coast
• Sigi Gruber, Head of the Healthy Oceans and Seas Unit, DG RTD, EC

Sustainable Fisheries

• Greg Jenkins, Penn State, USA Moderator
• Kwame Agyekum, University of Ghana, Ghana
• Benvindo Fonseca, IMAR, Cape Verde
• Serge Raemaekers, ABALOBI, South Africa
• Marcelo Oliveira, Bahia Pesca, Brazil
• Michael Ruccio, NOAA, USA

Sustainable Aquaculture

• Stewart Bernard, SANSA, South Africa Moderator
• Elisa Ravagnan, NORCE, Norway
• Suleiman Sadiku, FUTMINNA, Nigeria
• Paulo Serra Lopes, Aquazor, Portugal
• Hayley Evers-King, EUMETSAT
• Lars Ebbesson, iFishIENCi / NORCE, Norway

Coastal Observation

• Gabrielle Canonico, NOAA/IOOS, USA Moderator
• Tommy Bornman, SAEON, South Africa
• Regina Folorunsho, NIOMR, Nigeria
• João Paulo Vitorino, Instituto Hidrográfico, Portugal
• Segen Estefen, INPO, Brazil
• Sergio Rossi, Università di Salento, Italy

Seagrass

• Rocío Moreno, Preservation Balearic Islands, Spain Moderator
• James W. Fourqurean, FIU, USA
• Sarah Manuel, Government of Bermuda, Bermuda
• Karine Matos Magalhães, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Heidi Dierssen, University of Connecticut, USA

Corals

• David Obura, CORDIO, Kenya Moderator
• Milton Kampel, INPE, Brazil
• Eric Eric Hochberg, BIOS, Bermudas
• Ruy Kikuchi, UFBA, Brazil
• Beatrice Padovani Ferreira, UFPE, Brazil
• Mark Eakin, NOAA, USA

Sargassum

• Karima Degia, UWI, Barbados Moderator
• Frank Muller-Karger, USF, USA
• Chuanmin Hu, USF, USA
• Jewel Kudjawu, EPA, Ghana
• Paulo Horta, UFSC, Brazil

Capacity Building and Innovation

• Ana Noronha, Ciência Viva, Portugal Moderator
• DK Osseo-Asare, Penn State, USA
• Yesim Sireli, UNCC, USA
• Paulo Lara, Projecto TAMAR, Brazil
• Jan Seys, Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium

Numerical Modelling

• Ramiro Neves, MARETEC/IST, Portugal Moderator
• Luiz Paulo Assad, COPPE, Brazil
• Felix Uba, University of Ghana, Ghana
• Mary Gasalla - USP/IPBES, Brazil
• Nadia Pinardi, CMCC, Italy
• Jennifer Jackson-Veitch, SAEON, South Africa

Marine Robotics

• Michael Jones, TMA Blue Tech, USA Moderator
• Gerard Dooly, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Antonio Pascoal / Luís Sebastião, ISR IST, Portugal
• Katy Croff Bell, MIT Media Lab, USA
• João Tasso, LSTS/FEUP, Portugal
• Pedro Monteiro, CSIR, South Africa

Nanosatellite Constellation

• Minoo Rathnasabapathy, MIT Media Lab, USA Moderator
• Amal Khatri, SANSA, South Africa
• Evelyn Honoré-Livermore, NTNU, Norway
• Amber Emory, NASA, USA
• Milton Kampel, INPE, Brazil
• Francis Chizea, NASRDA, Nigeria

Artificial Intelligence

• Susana Barbosa, INESCTEC / AIR_DataNET, Portugal Moderator
• Francisco Doblas-Reyes, BSC, Spain
• Jamese Sims, NOAA, USA
• Alipio Jorge, MACC, Portugal
• Alexandre Evsukoff, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
• Guido Cervone, Penn State, USA

Final Remarks & Closing Concert

• Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal
• Closing Concert
  • Après un rêve (After a Dream), composed by Fauré
    Elizabeth Ann Allen, piano, and Pavel Gomziakov, cello