topScott C. Doney—President–Elect, Biogeosciences
Jennifer W. Harden—President–Elect, Biogeosciences
Christopher J. Still—Secretary, Biogeosciences
Emily H. Stanley—Secretary, Biogeosciences
Scott C. Doney—President–Elect, Biogeosciences
AGU member since 1987. Currently senior scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Major area of interest is on understanding biogeochemical responses and feedbacks to human-driven climate change. Work emphasizes combining field and satellite data with numerical models of ocean biogeochemistry and global carbon cycle. University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1986) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program (Ph.D., 1991). Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (1993–2002) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2002 to present). Coordinator of the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Synthesis and Modeling Project, cochair of Community Climate System Model Biogeochemistry Working Group, and inaugural chair of Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program. Publications total 103, forty-two in AGU journals. Best known for 1994 Reviews of Geophysics article on upper ocean turbulence and modeling, 2005 PNAS paper on global coupled carbon-climate modeling, and 2006 article on ocean acidification in Scientific American. Honors include AGU James B. Macelwane Medal, AGU Fellow, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow, and WHOI W. Van Alan Clark Sr. Chair. Within AGU, serving on Macelwane search committee, committee to select the editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and as Associate Editor for Reviews of Geophysics, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Journal of Geophysical Research,-Biogeosciences.
Statement: Biological organisms play an integral role in the geosciences on scales from microbial-mineral interactions in the crust to planetary-scale climate, carbon, and water cycles, a fact that AGU has embraced through the formation of the new AGU Biogeosciences section. The geosciences are increasingly organized and funded around targeted interdisciplinary questions, many of which involve biological themes. The biogeosciences are also on the forefront of addressing many pressing societal questions such as human-driven climate and global change. The AGU Biogeosciences section is still a relatively new component of AGU, and most of the focus of the section has been on defining the section’s scope, building up the membership, and successfully launching the new Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. My leadership of the Biogeosciences section would concentrate on extending those early gains and evaluating what other section activities would best benefit the research community. Three particular topics I will work on include breaking down the traditional barriers between scientists working on the ocean, atmosphere, land, and subsurface domains; strengthening the bridge between researchers working in the natural and social sciences; and expanding the Biogeosciences outreach efforts to K-16, policy makers, and the general public on important issues facing our planet and society.
Jennifer W. Harden—President–Elect, Biogeosciences
Member of AGU since 1990. Research soil scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey since 1982. Adjunct associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2005. Currently serving as board member of U.S. Permafrost Association. Research topics in soils have ranged from geomorphology and Quaternary geology as applied to geologic mapping and fault hazards, paleoclimate in semiarid regions, to the role of soils in carbon cycle science. B.S in soil resource management, M.S. and Ph.D. in soil science, all from University of California, Berkeley (1982). Served on editorial boards of Geological Society of America Bulletin; Geology; and Journal Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences during its formative years of 2005–2007. Recently served on Steering Committee for National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Soil Sciences; DOE Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee. To date, have authored more than 70 articles, most cited of which are on a quantitative index of soil development as applied to landscape evolution and on carbon storage and exchange in boreal forest soils.
Statement: Soil systems integrate and exchange water, energy, and/or constituents among every physical state (liquid, gas, solid), spatial scale (nanometer to kilometer), and Earth system (hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere) on every timescale (
Christopher J. Still—Secretary, Biogeosciences
Member of AGU since 1997. Currently an associate professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2002 to present). Major areas of interest include global change, Earth system science, terrestrial biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, and ecosystem ecology. Received a B.S. in biochemistry from Colorado State University in 1993 and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Stanford University in 2000. Member, Ecological Society of America and board of trustees of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Has authored or coauthored 24 publications, 10 of which are in AGU journals. Previous AGU service includes cochair (Biogeosciences section) of the Fall Meeting program committee for 2005–2006 and organizer or co-organizer of several special sessions within Biogeosciences (Fall Meetings in 1999, 2003, and 2006).
Emily H. Stanley—Secretary, Biogeosciences
AGU member since 1998. Associate professor, Center for Limnology and Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin. Research interests: river and wetland biogeochemistry; interactions between geomorphology and ecology. B.S., biology, Yale University, 1984; M.S., biology, Southwest Texas State University, 1986; Ph.D., zoology, Arizona State University, 1993. Postdoc, University of Alabama, 1993–1995; assistant professor, Oklahoma State University, 1995–1998; assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, 1998–2004, associate professor, University of Wisconsin, 2004 to present. Member of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Ecological Society of America (Aquatic Section secretary, 2001–2003), North American Benthological Society (cochair, Conservation and Environmental Issues Committee, 2002–2007, Executive Committee, 2005–2008). Fifty-eight refereed publications, five in AGU journals. Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow, 2006; University of Wisconsin Vilas Associate Award, 2003; member, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.