Mediterranean Reference User Group (MRUG)
The MRUG is a MedSeA advisory body composed of key MedSeA scientists, key marine and coastal managers, conservation practitioners, industry representatives, science policy advisors and policy makers, and other stakeholders and end-users, mainly from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The MRUG ensures dissemination both, of the issues covered by MedSeA scientists to the stakeholders organisations, and of the ocean acidification-related policy and societal issues important to those stakeholders and end-users. Additionally, the MRUG will assure the quality of the dissemination methods used by the MedSeA scientists.
The MRUG aims to:
- Advise on the types of data and analyses and products that will be most useful to managers, policy advisers, decision makers, and politicians,
- Advise on the format and nature of key messages arising from the research,
- Advise on the dissemination procedures to ensure that the results from the research are disseminated to all potential end users, and
- Transmit key science developments into their own sector and parent organisation.
MRUG members:
Member |
Institution / Organization |
| Abdulah Ameer | IUCN |
| Almudena Gómez | Europêche |
| Helena Álvarez | Oceana |
| Atila Uras | UNEP / MAP |
| Axel Romaña | IFREMER |
| Purifació Canals | MedPAN |
| Chloe Webster | MedPAN |
| Dan Laffoley | IUCN |
| David Santillo | Greenpeace |
| Javier Garat Perez | CEPESCA |
| John Baxter | Scottish Natural Heritage |
| Kathy Tedesco | UNESCO |
| Keith Alverson | UNESCO |
| Kirsten Isensee | UNESCO |
| Kristian Teleki | Global Ocean Commission |
| Laure Fournier | Fondation Total |
| Maarten van Rouveroy | Greenpeace |
| Marina Gomei | WWF Foundation |
| Fabio Massa | FAO |
| Matthias Leisinger | Kuoni Travel |
| Michelle Allsopp | Greenpeace |
| Atef Ouerghi | UNEP / MAP |
| Pierre-Yves Cousteau | Cousteau Divers |
| Alessandra Sensi | Union for the Mediterranean |
| Paulo Augusto Lourenço Dias Nunes | The World Bank |
| Lorenzo Galbiati | UNEP / MAP |
