The GOOD-OARS Summer School is coordinated and organised by ocean scientists of the GOOD and OARS programmes with support from the IOC-UNESCO Secretariat and CEMACS.

School Directors

• Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, CEMAC, USM, Malaysia

The Director of Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (CEMACS) in Universiti Sains Malaysia; Fellow of Academy Science Malaysia; Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific University-Community Engagement Network (APUCEN) and Vice Chair of UNESCO IOC of Western Pacific. She is also a Board member of the Partnership for Observations of the Global Oceans (POGO). She serves on international steering committees of several organisations such as CoastPredict, Global Ocean Corps, Global Partnership on Plastic and Marine Litter; and EquiSea. She has been working on the effects of climate stressors (ocean acidification and temperature rise) on the culture of molluscs from the embryonic stage to growout since 2014. She has been an active researcher with many international programmes such as Darwin Initiative (UK), IOC Westpac (UN), JSPS-NaGISA (Japan) and recently with POGO and IOGOOS. Currently, she plays a significant role in moving the agenda of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), alongside IOC Westpac.

Her field of expertise is in marine science, specializing in mariculture and conservation of molluscs, promoting “green aquaculture”, to create an impactful sustainable income for the local communities, besides creating a balance between profit and environmental protection. She believes strongly in translating her knowledge and benefitting the communities with research findings, creating a better tomorrow for all.

• Veronique Garçon, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Graduated from University of Paris VII in Environmental Sciences (Energy and Pollutions) in 1981 and then became a post-doc fellow at MIT (Cambridge, USA) from 1982 to 1985. Recruited as an Early Career scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1985, she worked at ‘Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)’ then moved down to Toulouse with a sabbatical stay at Princeton University in 1995 -1996. She is now back at IPGP with a CNRS Emeritus Senior
Scientist status. Her research themes at LEGOS and IPGP aim towards understanding and quantifying processes governing fluxes of carbon, oxygen and associated
biogeochemical elements in the ocean, using in situ tracers observations, remotely sensed data, coupled physical biogeochemical modeling and data assimilation
techniques. She was also involved in oceanic biogeochemical climatic monitoring via electrochemical sensor development. She served in the JGOFS SSC, member of the 13 French IFREMER Scientific Committee for 10 years, and in many national (eg. CNRS, National Navy), European (eg. ESF, EC, EGU, ERC), and international scientific instances.

She served as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) project (SCOR, ICACGP, WCRP, Future Earth). She also served as co-director of the International SOLAS Summer Schools in 2003, 2005, 2007 with C. Le Quéré and in 2013 with M. Dai and Director in 2009 and 2011. She was co-Director of the GO2NE SS2019 summer school in Xiamen, China and the 2023 summer school in La Serena, Chile. She is a member of the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) initiated by IOC-UNESCO in 2016 and co-Chair of the IOCCP SSG since 2021. She was awarded in 2017 the IOC-UNESCO Anton Bruun Medal.

• Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, China

Chair professor of marine environmental science at Xiamen University, where he served as the Director of State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science between 2005-2021. His primary research interests include ocean carbon/nutrients biogeochemistry and their coupling with ocean dynamics in the broad
context of climatic and environmental changes. He is also well known for his work on marine radiochemistry. Recently, his research scope has expanded to the interface between science and policy. He has published >250 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals. He was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017 and won the 2022 Axford Medal Award (by Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society, AOGS in recognition of excellence in geosciences).

He is a member of the expert group of the High-level panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, and a council member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). He was co-chair of the international program: Surface Ocean and Low Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) during 2011-2013. He is a leading PI of “Coastal Zones Under Intensifying Human Activities and Changing Climate: A Regional Programme Integrating Science, Management and Society to Support Ocean Sustainability (COASTAL-SOS)”, which was endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Program (2021-2030) as a  project.

Scientific Committee

• Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Andreas Oschlies, GEOMAR, Germany
• Annette Jaya Ram (CEMACS)
• Denise Breitburg, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA
• Dimitri Gutierrez, Instituto del Mar del Perú, Peru
• Ivonne Montes, Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Peru
• Jan Newton, University of Washington, USA
• Kirsten Isensee, IOC-UNESCO, France
• Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, China
• Natalya Gallo, University of Bergen, Norway
• Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
• Veronique Garçon, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Organising Committee

• Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Annette Jaya Ram, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Jeremy Sterling, IOC-UNESCO, France
• Kirsten Isensee, IOC-UNESCO, France
• Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, China
• Veronique Garçon, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Local Secretariat

• Abe Woo Sau Pinn, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Annette Jaya Ram, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Lutfi Haron, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia
• Sim Yee Kwang, CEMACS, USM, Malaysia