South Korea

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Australia

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Ruth Reef is a senior lecturer and coastal scientist at Monash University, Melbourne.
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I want to better integrate the excellent coastal science conducted in Australia within the global community, fostering more collaborations in this space between Australia and the rest of the world.
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Taiwan

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Dr. Hsiao-Chun (Jean) Tseng
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I am an associate professor of Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology in National Taiwan Ocean University. I trained as a chemical oceanographer and hold a Ph. D degree in Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates program in Marine and Coastal Management. My research mainly focuses on aquatic greenhouse gas emissions, marine biogeochemical cycling, climate and environmental change as well as how anthropogenic activities interact with the marine and coastal environment. I serve as a convener of ECR working group during 2023-2024 at Future Earth Taipei, and am also a steering committee member of Ocean Knowledge Action Network (KAN), Future Earth since 2024.
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India

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ECSA Council Member Dr. Tim Jennerjahn appointing Dr. Salom Gnana Thanga Vincent of the University of Kerala in Trivandrum to be the first of ECSA’s International Ambassadors.
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It’s a privilege to be an ECSA Ambassador and promote ECSA in India.
I think that one of the major missions of ECSA will be to promote estuarine and coastal research in tropical countries, as well as to include more members to ECSA from these countries, especially young scientists. What I really like about ECSA is that it offers a variety of grants and awards. I was an awardee of ECSA travel grant to one of ECSA’s conferences. ECSA conferences bring in multidisciplinary scientists working in various aspects of estuaries and coasts all over the globe.
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Denmark

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Patrick Friend
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The coastal zone – the interface between land and sea – has always been important to me since growing up among the estuaries and beaches of southern England, and later becoming a coastal and marine scientist in Europe and now the US. Today, more than ever before, estuarine and coastal science is critical to our understanding of natural systems and their interaction with human-induced effects in the coastal zone. My academic training taught me the value of a multi-disciplinary approach; to me this is perfectly represented by ECSA and its scientific membership. Now I believe we need more: we need a ‘stronger together’ approach to make our science heard above the noise. It is for this reason that I want to raise ECSA awareness in the US, not only within existing academic, governmental and consultancy circles, but more importantly among young coastal and estuarine scientists.