R/V Skagerak Steering and Advisory Committee

The R/V Skagerak Steering and Advisory Committee (STAC) meets at least four times a year and makes recommendations to R/V Skagerak management on strategic, financial, and operational issues.
The committee consists of seven to nine members. Three members  from the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, at least one member is from another department, and three to five members are from external organisations.

Markus Lindh

Chair

Team Leader at SMHI 

Areas: Marine environmental monitoring, oceanographic observations, phytoplankton, marine research infrastructure and research vessels.

Sara Andersson

Member

Project Director, Next Geosolutions

Areas: Marine surveying, offshore survey project management, geophysical and seismic surveys, remote offshore operations, offshore wind.

Björn Bergman

Member 

Head of Marine Operations and Technology, Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)

Areas: Ship management, security, and marine surveying/seismic surveys.

Katarina Gårdfeldt

Member

Director-General, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Areas: Polar research, research infrastructure and expeditions, Arctic and Antarctic research, environmental science, science diplomacy and international research cooperation.

Mattias Hallquist

Member 

Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg

Areas: Atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, aerosols, climate, ship emissions and urban air quality.

Ragnar Johansson

Member 

Senior Advisor at Swedish Orient Line AB

Areas: Master Mariner, Maritime, Shipbuilding, Transportation, Shipping, Ports, Freight, Energy, Contract Negotiation, and Logistics.

Cecilia Magnusson

Member

Chair, Svenskt Friluftsliv; Second Vice-Chair, Port of Gothenburg AB

Areas: Outdoor recreation policy, public access to nature, civil society, public policy and governance, port governance.

Isaac Rodrigues dos Santos

Member

Professor of Marine Chemistry at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg

Areas: Coastal biogeochemistry, carbon cycling and budgets, groundwater–surface water interactions, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gas fluxes.

Sebastiaan Swart

Member 

Professor of Oceanography at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg

Areas: Physical oceanography, Southern Ocean, air–sea–ice interactions, polar ocean observing, and autonomous ocean observations.

Rhian Waller

Member

Professor of Marine Biodiversity at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg

Areas: Marine biodiversity, deep-sea ecology, cold-water corals, reproductive ecology, climate change impacts on deep-sea ecosystems.