Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Operational Support (technical)
Extension Services (Public Awareness)
Subject Area
Physical Oceanography
Pollution
Activities
Dr
George Zodiatis is Senior Oceanographer with research work and teaching
experience in European research centers and Universities, such as the:
National
Center for Marine Research (today known as the Hellenic Center for Marine
Research), Oceanography Unit at the Cyprus
Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Oceanography Center at the University of
Cyprus, University of Malta, Russian State Hydro-meteorological
University, Southern Scientific Center
of the Russian Academy of Science, Southern Federal University-Rostov on Don, Coastal
& Marine Research Lab at FORTH-IACM in Greece, etc. Moreover, Dr George
Zodiatis is a member of the ORION-Joint Research and Development Center, a
Cyprus NGO.
His
research experience is focused mainly in the fields of physical oceanography.
The
last two decades he has been heavily involved in the development of the
operational oceanography in the Mediterranean, particularly within the
framework of the Copernicus marine component projects (former known as Global
Monitoring for Environment and Security, MyOceans, etc).
Dr
Zodiatis is a co-developer of the CYCOFOS-Cyprus
Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System, known to be the first
operational coastal forecasting system in the Mediterranean, providing downscaled
sea forecasts since early 2002.
Moreover,
Dr Zodiatis is a co-developer of an advance well established oil spill and
trajectory predictions system know as MEDSLIK,
a system that has been used by European and International key agencies, such as
the European Maritime Safety Agency-EMSA and REMPEC and several national
agencies and EU projects throughout the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Arabian Gulf and the Red
Sea.
Dr
Zodiatis has been participated as a principal investigator in more than 45
research projects, most of them funded by the European Commission, and in many
other projects as a research collaborator. He
has been the chairperson of the Data Exchange Agreement of the
MONGOOS-Mediterranean Oceanography Network for Global Ocean Observing Systems
(former known as MOON), from 2008-2017.
Moreover, he has been for many years a member of International and European
organizations related to operational oceanography and marine research, such as
the CIESM, IODE/IOC, EuroGOOS, GOOS. Dr Zodiatis is as co-Convener of the European Geosciences Union-EGU General Assembly Session “ Marine
Pollution Assessment, Predictions and Risk Mapping” for the years 2016,
2017 , 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Dr
Zodiatis has more than a 150 publications, in European and United States
scientific journals such as the : Deep Sea Research, Ocean Science, Scientific Report
(Nature publishing Group), proceedings of international
conferences, monographs and chapters in books published by Springer, Elsevier, University of Yale and
other publishers. He has been participated in more than a 100
international conferences and dedicated workshops as invited and regular
oral lecturer on topics related to ocean observation and numerical
modeling, marine data management, marine environment and marine downstream
applications. Dr Zodiatis h-
index is 29 as from Google scholar and his RG Score is 31.36 (as of January 2020).
Sea regions of study
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Black Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Ionian Sea
Aegean Sea
Skills
physical oceanography, operational oceanography, numerical modelling:flow and dispersion, satellite and in-situ remote sensing, data management and information, organization of long term research cruises, oil spill predictions.
Comment(s)
Nomintated GOOS national Focal Point, see e-mail dated 3/03/2010 in reply to CL 2328rev
