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Professor and Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University

Eric Chassignet is distinguished professor in the department of Earth, Ocean, and Science Atmospheric at Florida State University and the director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), a center of excellence that promotes interdisciplinary research in ocean-atmosphere-land-ice interactions to increase our understanding of the physical, social, and economic consequences of climate variability. He is especially interested in the study of western boundary currents, associated eddies, the thermohaline circulation, and their impact on the world ocean circulation. For the past 20 years, Prof. Chassignet has been the coordinator of a broad partnership of institutions (academic, government, and industry) to develop and demonstrate the performance and application of high resolution, real-time global and basin-scale ocean prediction systems using the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). The latter model was used to track marine litter and estimate where does the marine litter released into the ocean by a given country go and where does the marine litter found on the coastline of a given country come from (Chassignet et al., 2021).