topPeter Schlosser—President–Elect, Ocean Sciences
Christopher S. Martens—President–Elect, Ocean Sciences
Raleigh Hood—Secretary, Biological Oceanography
H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller—Secretary, Physical Oceanography
Donna L. Witter—Secretary, Physical Oceanography
Karen L. Bice—Secretary, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Robert L. Evans—Secretary, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Craig A. Carlson—Secretary, Marine Geochemistry
Elizabeth A. Canuel—Secretary, Marine Geochemistry
Peter Schlosser—President–Elect, Ocean Sciences
AGU member since 1989. Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (1999), professor of Earth and environmental sciences (1993), associate director and director of research, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York. Senior research staff member, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (1993). Major interests include physical and tracer oceanography, air/sea gas exchange, transport and mixing in rivers and estuaries, dating of young groundwater, and paleoclimate. Ph.D. in physics, University of Heidelberg (1985); assistant professor, University of Heidelberg (1986–1989); associate professor, Columbia University (1989–1992). Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering (2000–2003). Member, American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Oceanography Society, and European Geophysical Union. Past member of the steering committees of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, the Climate Variability and Predictability Program, the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study, and the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program. Past member of National Academy of Science panels on the International Polar Year and the Arctic Observing Network. Past cochair of two Arctic Research Commission/NSF Working Groups on Arctic Research Support and Logistics. Present chair of the science steering committee of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change and member of the science steering group of the International Study of Arctic Change. One hundred thirty-three refereed publications, 42 in AGU journals/monographs. Editor in Chief, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (1999–2002); AGU Ocean Sciences section Executive Committee member (2000–2004). AGU meeting session convener; organizer, Ewing Symposium on Tracers in the Ocean (1995). Vetleson Fellow and visiting professor, University of Washington, Seattle (1994). Elected Fellow of the AGU (2007).
The American Geophysical Union plays a central role in advancing international ocean sciences. AGU provides platforms to the ocean sciences community for scientific exchange in disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multiorganizational settings, publication of results in a variety of journals, and advancement of education and outreach. These functions will become increasingly crucial in a world undergoing profound changes as human activities exert significant pressure on the physics, chemistry, and ecosystems of the ocean, including its coastal regions. There is growing recognition and acceptance by the public and its decision-making entities that we need to find ways to mitigate as well as adapt to change. Although many of the very basic features of the oceans are not yet understood, our community is now confronted with an increasing expectation to provide solutions to problems, posing considerable challenges to our skill spectrum and capacity. Adjusting to this situation without compromising the strength and integrity of the basic research agenda and fundamental, curiosity-driven knowledge-gathering requires examination of the adequacy of the intellectual resource base, disciplinary balance, interdisciplinary capacity, educational and outreach programs, and proper balance between basic and applied research. As president-elect and president of the Ocean Sciences section of AGU I would devote my energy to working with the community to attain a balance between basic research in all disciplines of the ocean sciences and solution-oriented studies. My goal would be to help the ocean sciences community be equipped to meet future challenges by extending our fundamental knowledge base, advancing our professional capacity, using our insights to address societal needs, and establishing closer links between the ocean sciences and other AGU sections that contribute to an Earth system perspective.
Christopher S. Martens—President–Elect, Ocean Sciences
AGU Life Member since 1988. W. B. Aycock Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Major interests are in marine biogeochemical processes driven by organic matter decomposition, chemical fluxes across sediment-water, air-sea, and forest canopy–atmosphere boundaries and science education. B.S., chemistry, 1968; M.S. and Ph.D., chemical oceanography, 1969 and 1972, Florida State University; postdoctoral fellow, Yale University, 1972–1974; assistant, associate, professor, and distinguished professor, UNC at Chapel Hill, 1974 to present. Visiting scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1980–1981; University of Hawaii, 1997, 2002. Scientific society memberships: The Geochemical Society, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Estuarine Research Federation, The Oceanography Society (Council Member, 1997–2001), North Carolina Coastal Federation. Authored over 110 refereed science publications, 17 in AGU journals. Served as associate editor/editorial board for Limnology and Oceanography, JGR-Oceans, Biogeochemistry, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Marine Chemistry. Corecipient of 1984 and 1998 Best Paper Awards in Organic Geochemistry from the Geochemical Society; Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Organic Geochemists; Endowed Chair position and Favorite Faculty Award, UNC at Chapel Hill; 1987 elected chair of Gordon Conference on Chemical Oceanography. Committee service includes National Science Foundation advisory committees, NASULGC Board on Oceans and Atmosphere, Science Advisory Board for Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, and various NAS/NRC committees. Service at UNC at Chapel Hill includes chair of Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, Faculty Council, and Agenda Committee.
Statement: The bylaws of AGU’s Ocean Sciences section emphasize its role in promoting scientific study of the oceans and enhancing the availability of the results and discussion to the public. There has never been a more critical time for pursuing these goals, and AGU represents an important vehicle for work, publicity, and connectivity to help meet them. Important objectives are to (1) publicize and reward excellence in the ocean sciences community with greater emphasis on making the public more aware of possible solutions to global-scale problems that may result from such leadership, (2) advocate for training opportunities to further develop the media communication skills of our scientists and advanced students in order to enhance the impact of publicity associated with their research, (3) push even harder to help create useful forums for the groups of scientists that can build a broader base of support for increased funding for ocean sciences research and outreach, and (4) expand the collaboration between ocean sciences societies that has produced a series of premier Ocean Sciences meetings. Public awareness of the role of the oceans in global-scale and local-scale problems is skyrocketing, and we must offer potential solutions while effectively demanding the support needed to reach them. Membership in the Ocean Sciences section of AGU represents a key mechanism for joining in these efforts.
Raleigh Hood—Secretary, Biological Oceanography
AGU member since 1990. Presently a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory. Major area of interest is numerical modeling of marine ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemistry, and biological-physical interactions. Additional interests include observing and/or modeling nitrogen fixation, phytoplankton production, harmful algal blooms, and gelatinous zooplankton population dynamics and behavior. B.S., 1983, University of Washington; Ph.D., 1990, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University (1991) and at Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami (1992–1994). Faculty position at University of Maryland since 1995. Member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the Estuarine Research Federation. Authored over 40 refereed publications. Research experience ranging from basin-wide biogeochemical modeling and observational studies in the Atlantic and Indian oceans to regional modeling and observational studies in the Chesapeake Bay and the California Current. Chairman of the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program Steering Committee since 2002.
H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller—Secretary, Physical Oceanography
AGU member since 1994. Currently assistant professor of oceanography at Oregon State University. Research interests include circulation in the nearshore ocean and inner shelf, water wave propagation, transport processes above and within sandy sediments, evolution of sandy bathymetry. B.S. in civil engineering, 1991, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey; M.C.E. in civil engineering, 1994, University of Delaware; Ph.D. in civil engineering, 1998, University of Delaware. Postdoctoral researcher, University of Cantabria, Spain, 1997–1998; assistant professor in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 1998–2001; assistant professor in oceanography, Oregon State University, 2001 to present. Author of eight refereed journal publications, four in AGU journals. Honors include invited presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Circulation (2005); Outstanding Faculty Member Award, University of Michigan (2001), ONR Young Investigator Award (1999); Best Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware (1998); Woman of Excellence Certificate of Distinction (1993). AGU service as journal reviewer, meeting planner, and session chair.
Donna L. Witter
—Secretary, Physical Oceanography
AGU member since 1989. Assistant professor, Kent State University Department of Geology. Major interests are application of satellite altimetry to monitoring interbasin ocean exchange, interactions between large-scale and mesoscale ocean circulation, and monitoring of water properties of large inland lakes using bio-optical satellite sensors. B.S., physics, 1987, University of California, Santa Barbara; B.A., geography, 1987, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., oceanography, Oregon State University. Postdoctoral research fellow, 1996–1998, and associate research scientist, 1998–2001, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; senior research fellow, Kent State University Department of Geology, 2001–2006; assistant professor, Kent State University Department of Geology, 2006 to present. Author of seven refereed publications, six in AGU journals.
Karen L. Bice—Secretary, Marine Geology and Geophysics
I have been an AGU member since 1992. Currently, I am a tenured associate scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. My primary areas of research are ocean and atmospheric circulation modeling, with emphasis on past and future warm climate, and reconstruction of paleoclimate parameters using sediment geochemistry. I received a B.S. in geology in 1981 from the College of William and Mary, the M.S. in geology in 1983 from Vanderbilt University, and the Ph.D. in geosciences (1997) from Pennsylvania State University. Before attending graduate school, I worked for 2 years for NASA Langley Research Center and for 8 years as a petroleum exploration geologist and reservoir engineer. I have authored or coauthored 21 refereed publications (nine in AGU journals). I serve on the editorial boards of the journals Geology and Stratigraphy. I am a member of the Roster of Experts for the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change and a past member of the AGU Committee on Nonlinear Geophysics. I have also served the community as a convener and coconvener of several community workshops and professional meeting sessions, including five AGU special sessions.
Robert L. Evans—Secretary, Marine Geology and Geophysics
AGU member since 1991. Currently an associate scientist in the Geology and Geophysics Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Areas of research interest include coastal groundwater discharge, gas hydrates, hydrothermal processes, and understanding coastal change and its societal impacts. B.S. degree in physics from the University of Bristol (1988) and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1991). Prior to WHOI, held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Physics, University of Toronto. An active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Author or coauthor on 33 papers (14 in AGU journals, two in AGU monographs, and one article in Eos). Currently a Fellow of the Coastal Ocean Institute, WHOI (2005–2008).
Craig A. Carlson—Secretary, Marine Geochemistry
AGU member since 1995. Currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Major research interest is the biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and the interaction between DOM and microbial processes in oceanic systems. B.A. (1986), Colby College; Ph.D. (1994), Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland. Postdoctoral researcher at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1994–1996). Prior to accepting a position at the University of California (2001), held research faculty positions at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research as an associate research scientist (1999–2000) and an assistant research scientist (1997–1999). Member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society, and the American Society for Microbiology. Authored or coauthored 58 refereed publications, five in AGU Journals. Coedited the book Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter with D. Hansell. Recipient of the 2002 AGU Ocean Sciences Early Career Award. Served on the Carbon Cycle Science Ocean Interim Implementation Group (2002–2004). Serving as coeditor of Annual Reviews of Marine Sciences (since 2007) and editor of Aquatic Microbial Ecology (since 2006) and the U.S. Repeat Hydrography Oversight Committee (2003 to present).
Elizabeth A. Canuel—Secretary, Marine Geochemistry
AGU member since 1988. Currently full professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science/School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary (W&M). Major research interests include the biogeochemistry and cycling of organic carbon in aquatic and sedimentary systems, with emphasis on applications of lipid biomarkers, stable isotopes, studies of sediment diagenesis, and influence of humans on the carbon cycle in coastal ecosystems. B.S. (1981), Stonehill College; Ph.D. (1992), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to W&M, postdoctoral fellow at U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California (1992–1994). Member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), the Estuarine Research Federation (ERF), Geochemical Society, and the European Association of Organic Geochemists (EAOG). Authored 40+ refereed publications (two in AGU journals), two coedited issues of Organic Geochemistry, coauthor of forthcoming book entitled Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems. Interests include ocean science education and efforts to expand the participation of underrepresented groups. Director of the NSF-sponsored program Female Initiation into Research, Science and Technology (FIRST), which provided research experiences in marine chemistry/geochemistry for high school girls. Honors include NSF CAREER grant in ocean sciences; Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award (W&M, 2006); Dean’s Prize for Advancement of Women (VIMS, 1997 and 2004); Best Paper Award in Organic Geochemistry, Geochemical Society (1997); NRC postdoctoral scholarship (1992–1994); AGU Outstanding Student Paper (1992). Associate Editor for Limnology and Oceanography (2003–2007) and Organic Geochemistry (since 2003).