History

GOOS-AFRICA is one of the 12 GOOS regional alliances. Its principle is based on African Grassroots Approach & Ownership.

GOOS-AFRICA claims to:

• Be an African Union Program for the integrated management of African Oceans and Coasts.
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Our mandate

GOOS AFRICA aims to provide Ocean & Coastal Services to Africa. For this purpose GOOS-AFRICA works towards:

• Effective management of coastal environments
• Controlling pollution and safeguarding human health
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Future plan

For the future, GOOS-AFRICA will serve as an engine to:

• maintain enhanced collaboration with the African Union through GMES & Africa and other relevant initiatives in oceanography initiated by the AU;

Professor Kouadio AFFIAN

Majored at University of Bordeaux in France, PhD Oceanography Specialist of remote sensing applied to ocean Full professor at University of Cocody Abidjan Vice-President of the University Felix Houphouet-Boigny (Côte d’Ivoire) in charge of education training and student affairs since 2012.

Short Bio of K. HILMI (Morocco)

Dr. Karim Hilmi is a Research Director at the National Institute of Fisheries Research (INRH-Casablanca) in Morocco. He holds a PhD in physical oceanography with emphasis on hydrodynamic modeling. His field’s expertise is also to study the interaction between climate change

Dr NTYAM Sylvie Carole Epse ONDO

National Coordinator of COI-UNESCO Profession : Head of SECOMA (Specialized Research Section for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems) in the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI)/IRAD (Institute of Agricultural Research for Development)

CHERIF SAMMARI SHORT BIO

Sammari Cherif holds a PhD obtained in 1990 at the University of Aix-Marseille-II (France). He is a professor at the National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies (INSTM Salammbô) and very active in the field of marine scientific research.

Professor Jimmy O. Adegoke

senior tenured faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) where he was Chair of the Department of Geosciences (now Earth & Environmental Sciences) from 2008 to 2010 and Director of the UMKC Center for Applied Environmental Research (CAER) until recently.