Member	Role	Country
	Michael McPhaden	Chairman	United States of America
	Rick Lumpkin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory		United States of America
	Weidong Yu Sun Yat-Sen University		China
	Kentaro Ando Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	vice-Chairman	Japan
	Karen Grissom National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration		United States of America
	Kenneth Connell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research / Pacific Marine Environmental Labolatory		United States of America
	Kathleen O'Neil NOAA National Data Buoy Center		United States of America