Academic Staff – Question 2.6: In your opinion, how useful are the following in terms of increasing visibility and awareness of ocean research in your country?

Representatives of Organization/Company/Institution

Country	Institution	Your Position	Gender	Support for development of effective public communication in ocean research institutions	Support for communicating ocean science research to policy makers	Development of an IOC ocean literacy ‘community of practice’ to share experience within and across regions	Other suggestions?
Argentina	Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la AtmÃ³sfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) and French-Argentinean Institute for the Study of Climate and its Impacts (CNRS-IRD-CONICET-UBA)	Director	Female
Bangladesh	Fisheries & Marine Resource Technology Discipline, Khulna University	Professor & Head	Male	Very Useful	Essential	Very Useful
Brazil	IVIDES.org	Chairwoman	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential
Brazil	UFRJ	Full Professor	Male	Essential	Essential	Essential
Brazil	faho@lamce.coppe.ufrj.br	Researcher	Male	Essential	Essential	Essential
Chile	Universidad CatÃ³lica del Norte, Chile	Full Professor	Male	Essential	Essential	Very Useful
Costa Rica	University of Costa Rica	Asociate Profesor	Female	Essential	Very Useful	Very Useful
Côte D’Ivoire	Nangui Abrogoua University of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire)	Teacher – researcher	Male	Very Useful	Essential	Essential
Ecuador	ESPOL	DEAN OF MARITIME ENGINEERING AND MARINE SCIENCES FACULTY	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential	We are working on citizen science; we believe we need to work more on this, and ocean literacy will support this kind of initiative and complemented them
Egypt	National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	Researcher doctor in marine chemistry department	Female
Egypt	National Institute of Oceanography and Fishereis	Doctor researcher	Male	Essential	Essential	Essential
Egypt	Housing and Building National Research Center	Associate professor	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Egypt	Housing and Building National Research Center	Associate professor	Male	Essential	Essential	Essential
Guatemala	Centro de Estudios del Mar y Acuicultura	Assitant professor	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
India	MARS Practitioners Network	Facilitator and Tech Advisor (DPRR n SDGs)	Male
India	Physical Research Laboratory	Senior Scientist	Male
Indonesia	Universitas Negeri Makassar	Lecturer and researcher	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Indonesia	Institut Teknologi Bandung	Lecturer/Researcher	Female	Essential	Very Useful	Very Useful
Iraq	Marine Science Centre University if Basrah	Professor	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Malaysia	University of Malaya	Associate Professor	Male	Essential	Essential	Very Useful
Malaysia	Universiti Teknologi MARA	Senior Lecturer	Male
Mexico	Centro de InvestigaciÃ³n para los Recursos Naturales (CIReNa-DGETAyCM)	CIReNaÂ´s Director	Female	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Mexico	SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA	DOCENTE	Female	Essential	Essential	Very Useful
Mexico	Universidad AutÃ³noma del Carmen	Professor	Female
Nigeria	National water resources institute. Kaduna	Senior technologist	Female	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Pakistan	Bahria University	Assistant Professor	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential
Panama	Universidad de Panama	Profesor	Male	Of Some Use	Of Some Use	Of Some Use
Panama	smithsonian tropical research institute	director, physical monitoring program	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Of Some Use
Philippines	Misamis University	Director, MUCEP	Female	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Philippines	De La Salle Lipa	Faculty/ICM Focal Person	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential
Philippines	Samar State University-College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Catbalogan City Philippines	Associate Professor/Head Research and Development	Male	Very Useful	Very Useful	Very Useful
Sri Lanka	The Ocean University of Sri Lanka	Senior Lecturer	Male	Essential	Essential	Very Useful
Thailand	Chulalongkorn University	Researcher	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential
Trinidad and Tobago	The Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	Professor of Urban and Regional Planning	Female
Tunisia	Ministére d’Agriculture et de peche tunisie	technicien supérieure	Female