Earlier this year, Karina von Schuckmann, an oceanographer at Mercator Ocean International, was inducted into the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) – Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. Von Schuckmann specializes in ocean climate monitoring and chairs the Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report activity. She was a lead author of the first chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (IPCC SROCC), she is a Lead Author in chapter 2 of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group I, and she is an author of the IOC-UNESCO global ocean science report. She also contributed to the ocean heat content section of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Statement of Global Climate in 2019 and is a member of the Ocean Observations Physics and Climate panel and the ISSI science committee.
About the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
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