Biography

Thorkild Aarup is a programme specialist with the IOC of UNESCO where his responsibilities include being technical secretary for the Global Sea Level Observing System and the coastal module of the Global Ocean Observing System. He holds a PhD in oceanography from the University of Copenhagen and prior to joining IOC/UNESCO he worked at the Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, and the University of Massachusetts.