Advisory board (including past chairpersons)

• David Aubrey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA
• Hans Burchard, Baltic Sea Research Institute, Warnemünde, Germany
• Ralph Cheng, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA
• Job Dronkers, Rijkswaterstaat, National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Den Haag, The Netherlands
• Carl Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
• David Jay, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Jacobus van de Kreeke, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Florida, USA
• Parker MacCready, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Charitha Pattiaratchi, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia
• David Prandle, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, UK (present address: Hitchin, UK)
• Paulo Salles, Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• John Simpson, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales Bangor, UK
• Jürgen Sündermann, Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
• Huatong Wang, Ocean University of Qingdao, Shandong, China
• Tetsuo Yanagi, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan

PECS 2008 local organising committee

• Alex Souza (chairperson)
• Cathy Burke
• Phil Knight
• Andy Lane
• Roger Proctor
• Jonathan Sharples
• Shelagh Smith