PTWS-XXVI Steering Committee and Working Groups

Officers

Chairperson

Ms Filomena Nelson (Disaster Management Office, Ministry Of Natural Resources & Environment, Samoa)

Vice-chairpersons

Mr Rick Bailey (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)

Dr Tatiana Ivelskaya (Sakhalin Tsunami Warning Center, Russinan Federation)

Mr Tomoaki Ozaki (Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)

Working Groups

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group meets regularly to establish and implement working plans in the Pacific region. To address specific technical issues it has formed three sessional working groups, four regional working group and task teams:

Working Group 1 - Tsunami Hazard Assessment – Chair Dr Vasily Titov (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, United States) and Vice Chair Dr. François Schindelé (CEA/DG, France)

Working Group 2 – Tsunami Detection, Warning and Dissemination-  Chair Mr. Ken Gledhill (New Zealand) and Vice Chair Mr. Dan Jaska (Australia)

WG2 Task Team on Enhancing Products (formerly Enhancing Tsunami Warning Products) - Dr Chip McCreery (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, USA) and Vice Chair Mr. Tomoaki Ozaki (Japan)

WG2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the South West Pacific – Co-Chairs Ms Esline Garaebiti Bule (Dept of Meteorology and Geo-Hazards, Vanuatu) and Mr. Pierre Lebellegard (France)

Task Team on PACWAVE Exercises, Co-Chairs Ms Jo Guard (New Zealand), Ms Laura Kong (USA) and Mr Tomoaki Ozaki (Japan)

Working Group 3 – Disaster Management, Preparedness and Risk Reduction -  Chair Mr David Coetzee (Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, New Zealand) and Vice Chair Ms Julie Leonard (USA)

Regional Working Group on the South China Sea Region - Chair Mr Mok Hing-yim (National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, China) and Vice-Chair Dr. Nguyen Hong Phuong (Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam)

Task Team of the Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South China Sea Region on Establishment of a South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center, Chair Mr Ye Yuan (China), Vice Chair Mr Wandono (Indonesia)

Regional Working Group for the South West Pacific - Chair Mr Ofa Fa'anunu (Tonga) and Vice Chair Ms Esline Garaebiti (Vanuatu)

Regional Working Group for the South East Pacific – Chair Chair Mr Humberto Gomez (Ecuador) and Vice Chair Ms Mary Rengifo (Colombia)

Regional Working Group for Central American Pacific Coast – Ms Angelica Munoz (Nicaragua) and Vice Chair Mr Dolan Castro (Honduras)

Task Team on Future Goals and Performace Monitoring

Task Team on Evacuation Planning and Mapping