Working Group One:  Monitoring and Detection Systems 

Purpose: To review and recommend to the ICG priorities and actions required towards the full establishment of a coordinated regional tsunami warning system.

Functions:

1.   Advise member states on the monitoring and detection capabilities needed for operating national tsunami warning centers.

2.   Define the threshold criteria for the monitoring and warning systems.

3.   Assure the compliance with the agreed standards for the detection systems.

4.   Ensure the effectiveness of the warning system by promoting the open exchange of seismic, sea level and other observational data in real time.

5.   Promote the sharing of experience and expertise and capacity building essential to the effective monitoring.

6.   Support the establishment of a fully interoperable regional tsunami warning system.

Membership:

1.    Gloria Romero, FUNVISIS, Venezuela

2.    Daniel E. McNamara - NEIC (USGS), United States of America

3.    Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program (USA) -Invited Expert

4.    Lloyd Lynch, Research Fellow-Instrumentation-, Seismic Research Center  -Invited Expert

5.    Graham Ryan, Seismic Research Center  -Invited Expert

6.    Jean-Marie Saurel, Engineer, Observatoire de la Martinique, France (Chair).

7.    Marta Herrera Jiménez, INETER, Nicaragua –sea level

8.    Javier Ramirez, INETER, Nicaragua – seismic stations

9.    Ing. Wilder Alvarez,  DIMAR, Colombia 

10. Emilio Talavera M, Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales, Nicaragua

11. Mr. Venantius Descartes, Deputy Director, Saint Lucia Met. Services

12. Audra Luscher, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, NOAA, USA

13. Donald Simon, Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Service

14. Doug Wilson, IOCARIBE-GOOS Regional Project Coordinator

15. Marvin Ryan Forde, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Barbados – Invited Expert

16. Marck Oduber, UNESCO National Commission Aruba, Aruba

17. Sébastien Deroussi, Observatoire Volcanologique et Sismologique de la Guadaloupe, France

18. Clairmont Williams, Department of Meteorology,  Barbados

19. Bernard Naigre, Conseil Général de la Martinique, France

20. Victor Huerfano, Director, PRSN, Puerto Rico, USA

21. Karl Feaux, UNAVCO/COCONet, Invited Expert

22. Leo Brewster, Director, CZMU, Barbados

23. Reinoud Sleeman, KNMI, Netherlands

24. Gerard Metayer, SEMANA, Haiti

25. Claude Prépetit, Unite Technique de Sismologie, Haiti

26. Stuart Weinstein, PTWC, NOAA/NWS, United States, Invited Expert

27. Rick Benson, IRIS, United States, Invited Expert

28. Federico Duarte, MAE, Venezuela

29. Steeve Symithe, BME, Haiti

30. Jose Vega, UNA, Costa Rica

31. Enrique Arango, CENAIS, Cuba

32. Alejandro Gutierrez, UNA, Costa Rica

33. Marcelino Hernandez, CENAIS, Cuba

34. Gerald Bawden, NASA, USA

35. Héctor Mora Coordinador Grupo Investigaciones Geodésicas Espaciales, GeoRED SGC, Colombia

36. Viviana Dionicio Coordinador Grupo de Evaluación y Monitoreo de la SGC, Colombia

37. Gerald Badwen, Program Manager, NASA Headquarters, USA