A growing international network

The January 2026 proposal team represents the founding proposal group. CEERA is designed to expand through additional regional institutions, research infrastructure providers, reconnaissance associations, agencies, practitioners, and local partners as activities are co-developed internationally.

How partners can engage

Partners may contribute by connecting an existing capability, joining a focused taskforce, supporting a regional pilot, participating in field reconnaissance, contributing data or methods, or co-developing future proposals. Participation is activity-specific and does not imply an open-ended institutional commitment.

CEERA Partners

Steering Committee

Project Partners

Built on existing expertise. Connected through a shared reconnaissance mission.

January 2026 Ocean Decade Proposal Team

Dr.-Ing. Alexandra E. Schueller
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA
University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany
Project Lead

Dr. JoAnn Browning
NHERI Network Coordination Office (NCO)
Co-Lead & NHERI coordinator

Dr. Britt Raubenheimer
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Nearshore Extreme Events Reconnaissance (NEER)

Dr. Joseph Wartman
NHERI Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (RAPID)
University of Washington, USA

Dr. Lori Peek
Natural Hazards Center and CONVERGE
University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Dr. Tim Cockerill & Ellen Rathje
DesignSafe / Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Dr. David Frost
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER)

Dr. Brian Phillips
University of Florida, USA
NHERI Wind Research Facility
Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP)
Sentinel

Dr. Dan Cox
Oregon State University, USA
NHERI O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

Dr. James Ricles
Lehigh University, USA
NHERI Experimental Facility

International Partners

Dr. Godwell Nhamo

Professor and Head, Institute for Sustainability and Corporate Citizenship (ISCC),

College of Economic and Management Sciences, 

University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa 

Dr. Donatus Angnuureng

Associate Professor

ISEMAC-G PROJECT MANAGER- UTOKYO-ACECOR 

RESEARCH AND GRANTS COORDINATOR -ACECOR

Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience

Centre for Coastal Management, SBS, 

University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Dr. Alec Torres-Freyermuth

Professor, Institute of Engineering, 

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Coastal Processes and Engineering Laboratory (LIPC), Sisal, Yucatán, Mexico