Eric Dombrowsky
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Eric Dombrowsky is one of the founders of Mercator Ocean and was its scientific and technical director until 2014. He entered oceanography in 1988 with his PhD on data assimilation, and over the next 25 years he contributed directly to the development and structuring of operational oceanography in Europe and worldwide.
Member of the executive committees of the major European projects Mersea and MyOcean, which paved the way for the current Copernicus Service, co-chairman of the international program GODAE Ocean View, Eric created the principles of the engineering that still uphold our modern ocean forecasting: scientific, operational, and open.
He left us on August 25, 2022.