Executive bodies
The Project Coordinator will efficiently manage SESAME, who will, in turn, be supported by a Management Group. Their work will be supported by SESAME’s Steering Committee (SC) and Advisory Board (AB).
Scientific Steering Committee
- Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, HCMR, Coordinator
- Dr. Helen Kaberi, HCMR, Project Manager
- Dr. Gabriel Gorsky, CNRS, WP1 Leader
- Dr. Dimitris Georgopoulos, HCMR, WP2 Co-Leader
- Dr. Andrei Zatsepin, P.P. Shirshov, WP2 Co-Leader
- Dr. Emin Ozsoy, IMS-METU, WP3 Leader
- Dr. Marilaure Gregoire, ULg-MARE, WP4 Leader
- Dr. Javier Ruiz, CSIC, WP5 Leader
- Dr. Marco Zavatarelli, CoNISMa, WP6 Leader
- Prof. Michalis Skourtos, AEGEAN , WP7 Leader
- Dr. Snejana Moncheva, IO-BAS, WP8 Leader
- Dr. Isaac Gertman, IOLR, WP9 Leader
The Advisory Board
- Dr Umit Unluata
Head of Ocean Science Section
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, (IOC) - Dr Franco Saverio Civili
MEDPOL Coordinator
United Nations Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan UNEP/MAP - Dr Oksana Tarasova
Pollution Monitoring and Assessment Officer
Black Sea Commission - Dr Eva Royo Gelabert
Project Manager Marine Assessments
European Environmental Agency (EEA) - Prof. Frederic Briand
Director General
The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) - Prof. André Monaco
Emeritus Research Director Coordinator of the MATER Project in the Med (MTP-II)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur l'Environnement Marin (CNRS-CEFREM) - Prof. Anastasios Eleftheriou
Coordinator of the CINCS Project -Eastern Mediterranean (MTP I)
University of Crete - Prof. Kerry Turner
Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia - Dr Michael Flint
Deputy Director, Coordinator of major Black Sea projects
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences - Dr John H. Steele
President Emeritus, Marine Policy Center
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Prof. Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli
Co-scientific Coordinator of the POEM project, Coordinator of MEDCLIVAR
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Prof. Louis Legendre
Directeur du Laboratoire d' Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV); Deputy Scientific Director of EUROCEANS
European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS) - Dr Carlo Heip
CEME: Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology; General Coordinator of MARBEF
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MARBEF) - Dr Kaisa Kononen
BONUS Program Manager
Academy of Finland
Management Group
- Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou
Coordinator - Dr. Helen Kaberi
Project Manager - Mr. Nikolaos Streftaris
Reporting - Dr. Christos Tziavos
Accounting - Mr. Euripides Papadopoulos
Accounting - Mrs. Roula Frangou
Accounting - Mrs. Anna Mavriki
Secretariat work - Mrs. Claudia Cesarini
Internal Communication (PROGECTA management tool)
- 15/02/2011 :
Third BSC Scientific & Final UP-GRADE BS-SCENE Project Conference, Odessa, Ukraine, 31 October - 4 November 2011 - 31/01/2011 :
Final SESAME General Assembly & Scientific Conference, 4-8 April 2011, Athens, Greece - 25/01/2011 :
MedCLIVAR Final Conference: Mediterranean Climate: From Past to Future, 6-9 June 2011, Lecce, Italy - 25/01/2011 :
Ph.D. Fellowship: 'Effects of ocean acidification on calcification and incorporation of elements and isotopes in Mediterranean Pteropods and Foraminifers', available within EU FP7 Project MedSea - 24/11/2010 :
Deep Sea Research II: Special Issue on Satellite Oceanography and Climate Change - Call for Papers - 24/11/2010 :
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, 24-28 October 2011 - 22/07/2010 :
Post-doc position on Coupled Biogeochemical-Physical Modelling as part of the EU FP7 EUROBASIN project, IMS-METU, Turkey - 12/04/2010 :
PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change: Call for 2010/2011 Applications - 23/06/2009 :
Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions - 16/06/2009 :
International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 11-17 April 2010, Cascais, Portugal - 09/06/2009 :
Report of the Stakeholders Conference, Maritime Day, Rome, Italy, 19-20 May 2009 - 07/04/2009 :
The White Paper: Plans to prepare Europe for climate change - 07/04/2009 :
Impacts of Europe's changing climate: 2008 indicator-based assessment report - 07/04/2009 :
CIESM Atlas of Exotic Macrophytes in the Mediterranean
