The project is lead by a multidisciplinary team at University of Madeira, in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute of Oceanography (IO) at the University of Lisbon. Team members have backgrounds in physical oceanography, meteorology and mathematics. Complementary to the scientific objectives, and taking advantage of the team technical expertise, an experimental meteorological and oceanic forecast for Madeira will be implemented and accessible through this site. Nevertheless, the project also benefits from a crescent list of collaborative institutions, which were not on the original proposal, but that are whiling to contribute with complementary technical expertise, help with the logistics of the project, and/or provide access to more oceanographic and computational resources, those include: Centro de Ciências Matemáticas (CCM); Museu da Baleia (CMM); Portuguese Hidrographic Institute of the Navy; Estação de Biologia Marinha do Funchal (EBM); CREPAD – Centro de Recepción, Proceso, Archivo y Distribución de datos de Observación de la Tierra, Spanish defense ministry; as well as CIMAR – Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Universidade do Porto.