ECORD Council

ECORD is formed with membership from 17 European - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and The United Kingdom - and Canada funding organisations supporting national IODP-related programmes. Membership of ECORD Council is defined in terms of signatories to the ECORD Memorandum.


:: ECORD Council Membership
The ECORD Council is the assembly of all ECORD member countries represented with one delegate. The Chair and the Vice-chair positions are held for a period of one year. The ECORD Council meets twice a year (June and November). A core group of the Council consisting of the Chair, the Vice-chair and three additional Council Delegates (see table below), is part of the ECORD Executive Bureau. The three major ECORD contributors (France, Germany and United Kingdom) automatically belong to this core group.
EMA, ESO and ESSAC are represented by their respective Director and Chairs at each Council meeting.



:: ECORD Council Tasks and Interactions

The ECORD Council co-ordinates a common European/Canadian approach to IODP policy such as:
-> implementing ECORD as an integrative part of IODP,
-> structuring of ECORD - definition of the tasks and responsibilities of its entities,
->selecting and oversighingt of EMA and ESO,
-> negotiating with IODP Lead Agencies (NSF and MEXT),
-> providing of governmental oversight for all ECORD activities.

The ECORD Council is represented by the ECORD Council Chair and Vice-chair and the EMA Director at IODP Council.



ECORD Council Delegates
Country Funding Agency Delegate / Alternate
AustriaFWF & ÖAWReinhard Belocky
BelgiumFWOJean-Pierre Henriet / David Van Rooij
CanadaNSERCAnne De Vernal / Kathryn Gillis
DenmarkFNUMarit-Solveig Seidenkrantz / Anders Kjaer
FinlandAFHanna Pikkarainen
France (Core group)INSU-CNRSMichel Diament / Mireille Perrin
Germany (Vice-chair)DFGGuido Lueniger
IcelandRANNISEirikur Stephensen
IrelandGSIKoen Verbruggen / Xavier Monteys
ItalyCNRMarco Sacchi
Netherlands (Core group)NWOJosef Stuefer
NorwayNFRØyvind Pettersen
PolandPGI-NRIJerzy Nawrocki / Andrzej Przybycin
PortugalFCTFernando Barriga / Olga Dias
SpainMICINNJosé Ramon Sanchez-Quintana
SwedenVRDan Holtstam / Magnus Friberg
SwitzerlandSNFMartina Kern-Luetschg
United Kingdom (Chair)NERCMichael Webb
ECORD Council Observers
EMA: ECORD Managing AgencyGilbert Camoin Patricia Maruéjol Milena Borissova
ESO: ECORD Science OperatorRobert Gatliff
ESSAC: ECORD Science Support & Advisory CommitteeCarlota Escutia Dotti
ECORD Facility BoardKarsten Gohl
IODP-MI Board of GovernorsGerold Wefer John Ludden Mathilde Cannat
SIPCOM (IODP)Jan de Leeuw
PEP (IODP)Dick Kroon
DS3F: Deep-Sea and Sub-Seafloor Frontier InitiativeAchim Kopf
ESF-Marine BoardNiall McDonough
ICDP: International Continental Drilling ProgramUlrich Harms
IMAGES: International Marine Past Global Change StudyIan Hall
Updated February 2013


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