Task Teams
Toste Tanhua is a chemical oceanographer focusing on ocean ventilation and mixing by observing transient tracers and conducting deliberate tracer release experiments. He also works on understanding the dynamics of ocean carbon, nutrients and oxygen, and particularly the role of ocean chemistry in climate change. Toste is particularly interested in improving the sustained ocean observing systems, and currently coordinates the EU project BioGeoSea on biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables. He is also leading the innovation platform Shaping an Ocean Of Possibilities for science-industry collaboration (SOOP), that is enabling non-scientists to observe the ocean.
Giuseppe Suaria is a marine ecologist and senior scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR). His work focuses on studying the distribution, transport and composition of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, with emphasis on harmonizing sampling and monitoring methods. He has authored over 50 scientific publications and participated in more than 35 oceanographic expeditions across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Arctic and Antarctic. An active editor, reviewer and science communicator, he contributes to international plastic pollution networks and serves on the Steering Committee of the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS).