Notification 2011-186
Selected experts for the Expert Meeting to Develop a Series of Joint Expert Review Processes to Monitor and Assess the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, 19 – 20 October 2011, Montreal, Canada.
Dear Madam/Sir, In notification number 2011-134, dated 20 July 2011, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity invited Parties, other Governments, and relevant organizations and scientific groups to nominate experts to participate in the Expert Meeting to Develop a Series of Joint Expert Review Processes to Monitor and Assess the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, 19 – 20 October 2011, Montreal, Canada. Thanks to the generous support of the Government of Spain, this meeting is being convened by the Secretariat in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IOC/UNESCO), pursuant to paragraph 66 of decision X/29. In this regard, I am pleased to announce that the selection of participants has been completed, based on the relevant scientific expertise and experience of nominees, in keeping with the criteria in the above-noted notification. The Secretariat is in a position to provide financial assistance to selected participants nominated by developing country Parties. The list of selected participants is attached in the annex. Selected participants will be notified in due course. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. CBD Expert Meeting to Develop a Series of Joint Expert Review Processes to Monitor and Assess the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, 19 – 20 October 2011, Montreal, Canada List of Selected Candidates Africa Mr. Dirar Hassan Nasr (Sudan) Ms. Célia da Conceição Felisberto Macamo (Mozambique) Asia and the Pacific Mr. Aisake Batibasaga (Fiji) Mr. Dr. E. Vivekanandan (India) CEE No candidates. GRULAC Ms. Elva Escobar Briones (Mexico) Mr. Alejandro Bianchi (Argentina) Ms. Aida Hernandez (Cuba) WEOG Mr. Jean-Pierre Gattuso (France/ICRI) Mr. Jan Helge Fossa (Norway) Ms. Donna Roberts (Australia) Ms. Sophia Johannessen (Canada) Mr. Yukihiro Nojiri (Japan) Organizations Ms. Magdalena Muir (EUCC) Mr. Jason Hall-Spencer (EPOCA) Mr. Murray Roberts (EPOCA) Ms. Katharina Elisabeth Fabricius (UNESCO-IOC) Ms. Suzanne C. Mills (Coral Reef Initiative South Pacific) Mr Stephen Widdicombe (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) Mr. Richard A. Feely (NOAA) Mr. Edward Vanden Berghe (OBIS) Mr. Hans Otto Poertner (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) Mr. Jeroen Ingels (Belspo) Resource Persons Ms. Kathy Tedesco (UNESCO-IOC) Mr. Kristian Teleki (SCBD consultant) Ms. Nicola Barnard (SCBD consultant) Observer Mr. Ken Anthony (Australia) SBSTTA Bureau Mr. Alexander Shestakov
Executive Secretary
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points; Other Governments; IOC/UNESCO, FAO, UNFCCC Secretariat, UNEP-WCMC, ICRI, Ramsar Convention, Antarctic Treaty, the Arctic Council, and Other Relevant Organizations and Scientific Groups