Partners

Several European institutions, the COASTALT partners, take part in the Project, which is led by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

The COASTALT Partners are:

• National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K.
  • Paolo Cipollini (COASTALT project manager), Christine Gommenginger , Valborg Byfield, Peter Challenor, Graham Quartly, Helen Snaith, Mikis Tsimplis, Luke West, Scott Gleason (now at Concordia Univ., Montreal, Canada)
• National Oceanography Centre (was the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory), Liverpool, U.K.
  • Philip Woodworth, Judith Wolf
• Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
  • Stefano Vignudelli, Andrea Scozzari
• Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
  • Jesus Gomez-Enri
• Starlab, Barcelona, Spain
  • Cristina Martin-Puig, Araceli Pi Figueroa, Laura Moreno, Marco Caparrini
• Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Joana Fernandes, Luisa Bastos, Alexandra Nunes, Clara Lázaro, Nelson Pires, Paulo Marreiros
• HIDROMOD, Lisbon, Portugal (Phase 1 only)
  • Henrique Coelho, Paulo Leitão
• Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (Phase 2 only)
  • Susana Barbosa

The ESA Scientific Officer responsible for COASTALT is Jérôme Benveniste. 

COASTALT has close scientific links with the PISTACH Project (Prototype Innovant de Système de Traitement pour l'Altimétrie Côtière et l'Hydrologie ), funded by CNES and coordinated by CLS Toulouse