Mark DOWELL
Mark Dowell is Project Leader for Scientific and Technical Support to the Copernicus Programme at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, and is responsible for coordinating the newly established European Commission Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation. He current efforts include incentivizing a scientifically sound and traceable uptake of Copernicus products and Services in European Policy and is a co-chair of the Task Force for the proposed Copernicus Anthropogenic CO2 emission initiative. Mark has a Ph.D. in Oceanography and Earth Science from the University of Southampton (UK) in 1998. Following his thesis, he worked as Research Faculty in the Institute for Earth Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire (USA).