Dr. rer. nat. Toste Tanhua

• Born: January 25, 1965
• Born in: Sweden
• Citizenship: Sweden, Germany

• 1992 Göteborg University, M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry
• 1997 Göteborg University, Ph.D Marine Chemistry, Dissertation title: Halogenated substances as marine tracers

• Transient Tracers in the Ocean
• Ocean Ventilation and Mixing
• Deliberate Tracer Release Experiments
• Novel Tracer Development
• Sustained Ocean Observing Systems

• 01.09.2002 – present GEOMAR, Senior Scientist
• March 1999 – April 2002 SIO-UCSD, San Diego, CA, Postdoctoral researcher.
• July 1997 – July 1998 Göteborg University, Sweden, Postdoctoral researcher.

• GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System): Co-Chair, 2017 – present
• Joint WMO-IOC Collaborative Board: 2019 – present
• Eurofleets+ Scientific Liaison Panel, 2019 – present

Current Projects 

• EuroSea

since 1992 participation in 35 marine research expeditions in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and to the Arctic, Atlantic, Antarctic Oceans.