{"id":12270,"date":"2019-12-19T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T08:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12270"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:04:21","slug":"martin-visbeck","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/martin-visbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Visbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ordinary Member of the ISC Governing Board (2021-2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the Standing Committee for Science Planning (2022-2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ordinary Member of the ISC Governing Board (2018-2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISC Foundation Fellow (June 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISC network of experts for the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/events\/unoc3-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN Ocean Conference 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Visbeck is the CEO of OceanQuest, a Saudi Arabian not-for-profit foundation, incubated by KAUST, with a mission to accelerate ocean discovery, drive innovation in the field, support global cooperation, and excite the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research interests revolve around ocean\u2019s role in the climate system, ocean circulation, upwelling systems, integrated global ocean observation, digital-twins of the ocean and the ocean dimension of sustainable development. He led the \u2018Future Ocean\u2019 Network in Kiel to advance integrated marine sciences by bringing together different disciplines to work on marine issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He serves on a number of national and international advisory committees including the WMO Research Board, Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), leadership council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Interim Decade Advisory Board for the UN Decade of Ocean Science Decade for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 and the Assembly supporting the development of the EU Horizon Europe Ocean Mission. He is the past President of The Oceanography Society (TOS), and was elected fellow of the AGU, AMS, TOS and the European Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is on leave from his position as Chair in Physical Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visbeck is involved in strategic planning and decision-making processes about the ocean and sustainable development at a national, European and global level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The page was updated in May 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involvement at the ISC Background Martin Visbeck is the CEO of OceanQuest, a Saudi Arabian not-for-profit foundation, incubated by KAUST, with a mission to accelerate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40543,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[195,57,22],"region":[321],"tag":[],"class_list":["post-12270","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-climate","tag-ocean","tag-sustainability","region-europe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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