Team members
All scientists working with XBTs are welcome to become members of the XBT Science Team. The current members are:
- Janet Sprintall (USA, SIO, co-chair for science)
- Ann Thresher (Australia, CSIRO, co-chair for data management)
- Gustavo Goni (USA, NOAA, co-chair for operations)
- Dean Roemmich (USA, SIO)
- Lisa Lehmann (USA, SIO)
- Molly Baringer (USA, NOAA)
- Marlos Goes (USA, NOAA/CIMAS)
- Francis Bringas (USA, NOAA)
- Gilles Reverdin (France, CNRS)
- Gopalakrishna Vissa (India, NIO)
- Mauricio Mata (Brazil, FURG)
- Sebastiaan Swart (South Africa, CSIR/UCT)
- Rebecca Cowley (Australia, CSIRO)
- Shoichi Kizu (Japan, TU)
- Robert Helberg (USA, US Navy)
- Sophie Cravatte (Noumea, IRD)
- Alexander Ganachaud (Noumea, IRD)
- Tim Boyer (USA, NOAA)
- Charles Sun (USA, NOAA)
- Loic Petit de la Villeon (France, IFREMER)
- Franco Reseghetti (Italy, ENEA)
- Susan Wijffels (Australia, CSIRO)
- Suzuki Toru (Japan, MIRC)
- Lijing Cheng (China, IAP)
- Viktor Gouretski (Germany, University of Hamburg)
- John Abraham (USA, University of St. Thomas)
- Shenfu Dong (USA, NOAA/CIMAS)
- Loic Houpert (France, LOCEAN)
- Mauro Cirano (Brazil, UFRJ)
- Nathalie Zilberman (USA, Scripps)
Institution Abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Institution |
|---|---|
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA |
| BOM | Bureau of Meteorology, Australia |
| Scripps | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
| UCT | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia |
| NIO | National Institute of Oceanography, India |
| CIMAS | Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, USA |
| IRD | Institute of Research for Development, France |
| IMOS | Integrated Marine Observing System, Australia |
| IAP | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
| TU | Tohoku University, Japan |
| ENEA | National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy |
| IFREMER | Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, France |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
| CSIR | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa |
| MIRC | Marine Information Research Center, Japan |
| LOCEAN | Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et du Climat, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France |
| UFRJ | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
