topRobert D. van der Hilst—Director I
Elizabeth A. Johnson—Director I
Marvin A. Geller—Director II
Mary Anne Carroll—Director II
Nancy U. Crooker—Director III
Daniel N. Baker—Director III
Rafael L. Bras—Director IV
Kenneth W. Potter—Director IV
Jason C. Neff—Director V
Mary A. Voytek—Director V
John W. Farrington—Director VI
Margaret Leinen—Director VI
Robert D. van der Hilst—Director I
Scientific interest: Earth's structure, composition, and evolution, with focus on subduction systems, phase transitions in the upper and lowermost mantle, lithosphere of North America, Southeast Asia, Tibetan Plateau. Education: M.S., geology and geophysics (1986), and Ph.D. (1990), Utrecht University, Netherlands. Employment: lecturer, University of Botswana (1983–1984); postdoctoral fellow, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (1990–1992); research fellow, Australian National University (1992–1995); on MIT faculty since 1996; visiting faculty positions at the Institute de Physique du Globe, Paris (1998 to present), and Utrecht University (2001–2009). Society membership: European Geosciences Union, Society for Exploration Geophysicists, Seismological Society of America. On various science advisory committees, including Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (board of directors), USArray Steering Committee, USArray Advisory Committee, and major MIT partnerships with energy companies. Editorial: editor, Earth and Planetary Science Letters; advisory board, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, past associate editor, Geophysical Journal International. Over 110 refereed publications, 30 in AGU journals; five monographs, three published by AGU. Honors: Doornbos Memorial Prize, International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Macelwane Medal (AGU), Fellow of AGU, Packard Foundation Fellow, VICI Innovative Research Award, Dutch National Science Foundation, 1998 Crafoord Lecture, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden. AGU service: associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (1998–2003) and Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (1999–2000); Program Committee, AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (1996) and AGU Spring Meetings (1998–2000); chair, 2005 AGU Joint Assembly Meetings Committee (2004–2006), Committee of Public Affairs (2006–2008); president, Seismology section (2008–2010).
Elizabeth A. Johnson—Director I
Team leader of the Chevron Gravity, Magnetics, and Electromagnetics Geophysical Services Team. Current geophysical interests include using potential fields data and applying new concepts regarding the extension of continental margins to constrain basin models for petroleum systems analysis, and the deployment of controlled source electromagnetic technologies for hydrocarbon prospect derisking. B.S., physics with geophysics option, 1978, Harvey Mudd College. Employee of Chevron (previously Union Oil Company and Unocal) since 1978. Member, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Member, Association for American Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Past national president and board member, Association for Women Geoscientists. Past president (2007), board member (2006), and chair of Finance Committee (2004–2006), Thoreau Congregation. Member, Education Advisory Committee, Lamar Consolidated ISD, 2003–2005. Past member, U.S. Magnetic Anomaly Mapping Task Force (National Academy), 1995–1996. Past member, SEG/AAPG Geophysical Integration Committee, 1993–1994. Past chair, SEG Gravity and Magnetics Committee, 1993. Member, AGU Development Board, 2005–2006. Member, AGU Development Committee, 2003–2004. Member, AGU Budget and Finance Committee, 1999–2002. Participant, The New AGU, a Forum on the Future, 2009. Author and coauthor of numerous geophysical case studies presented at SEG, AAPG, and Gulf Coast Section/Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (GCSSEPM) meetings. Author of two short papers in Geologic Applications of Gravity and Magnetics: Case Histories, published jointly by SEG and AAPG. One solicited paper on applications of fulltensor gravity gradiometry to seismic prestack depth migration presented at joint EGS-AGU-EUG General Assembly in Nice, France, 2003.
Marvin A. Geller—Director II
Research includes various aspects of atmospheric dynamics. B.S., applied mathematics (1964), and Ph.D., meteorology (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On faculties of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1969–1977), University of Miami (1977–1980), and Stony Brook University (1989 to present). At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 1980 to 1989; headed a research group and was later chief of Laboratory for Atmospheres. Fellow of AGU and American Meteorological Society (AMS). Elected AGU president-elect, later served as president of the Atmospheric Sciences section and served on the AGU Council. Elected to two terms as president of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the International Council of Science). Also elected as a counselor of AMS and served on their Executive Committee. Currently finishing up two terms as chair of AGU Statutes and Bylaws Committee, where we helped to develop the new AGU governance structure. Honors: NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and the COSPAR International Cooperation Medal; associate of the United States National Academies. Among 102 publications that have either appeared or are in process (38 in AGU publications), topics covered have ranged from the E region to soil moisture.
Mary Anne Carroll—Director II
Research interests include tropospheric oxidant photochemistry; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; interdisciplinary research training. B.A., chemistry, 1978, University of Massachusetts; Sc.D., atmospheric chemistry, 1983, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Visiting Fellow/Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), 1983–1984. Research chemist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1984–1992. Associate director, Atmospheric Chemistry Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1990–1992. Associate professor, 1992–2001, professor, 2001 to present, AOSS and Chemistry; professor, 2006 to present, geological sciences, University of Michigan. Director, PROPHET, 1996 to present. Director, Atmospheric Chemistry and Meteorology REU, 2000–2004. Executive director, Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training Program (BART), 2002 to present. Codirector, Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions REU, 2005 to present. Member, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Electorate Nominating Committee member, 2003–2004, chair, 2005–2006), and Sigma Xi. National Academy of Science service: Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data (2001–2003), Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC; 2003–2007); cochair, BASC Workshop, Understanding and Responding to Multiple Environmental Stresses, 2005–2007; chair, BASC Review, Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, 2007. Other service: member (1994–1997), vice chair (1996), and chair (1997), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Observing Facilities Advisory Panel; cochair, USWRP-PDT-11 Meteorological Aspects of Air Quality, 2001–2003; cochair, Workshop/Report on Air Quality Forecasting, 2002–2005; member, U.S. Nitrogen Science Plan Organizing Committee, 2003; member, iLEAPS Scientific Steering Committee, 2004–2009; member, NSF Atmospheric Science Facilities Assessment Committee and cochair, Surface, Fluxes, and Soils Subcommittee, 2005–2007; member, Advisory Panel, The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies, NCAR, 2008. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratory Distinguished Authorship Award, 1990; UM College of Engineering Service Excellence Award (1998) and Education Excellence Award (2006). AGU service: chair, Tellers Committee, 1990–1992; editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR)-Atmospheres, and member, Atmospheric Sciences section Executive Committee, 1997–2000; member, JGR-Atmospheres Editors Search Committee, 2006–2009; member, Revelle Medal Committee, 2008–2010. Author/coauthor of 66 peer-reviewed publications, 55 in AGU journals, with an additional 33 peer-reviewed papers published by BART doctoral students, two in AGU journals.
Nancy U. Crooker—Director III
Area of interest is heliospheric physics, including interplanetary coronal mass ejections, magnetic topology and flux budget, the heliospheric current sheet, and solar wind–magnetosphere coupling. B.A., physics, 1966, Knox College; M.S., ionospheric physics, 1968, and Ph.D., magnetospheric physics, 1972, University of California, Los Angeles. Research positions at Cornell (1973), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974), University of California, Los Angeles (1975–1993), Air Force Research Laboratory (Visiting Faculty, 1989–1991), and Boston University (research professor, 1994 to present). Treasurer and member, board of directors of Hop Brook Protection Association (a Massachusetts environmental organization). Elected AGU Fellow in 2000. AGU service as chair of Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Awards Committee, 1988–1990; member of Macelwane Medal Committee, 1992–1994; member (chair) of Waldo E. Smith Medal Committee, 1994–1998 (1996–1998); SPA Solar and Heliospheric Physics secretary, 2000–2002; SPA president-elect and president, 2004–2008; member, AGU Executive Review Committee, 2005–2008; member, AGU Future Focus Task Force, 2008–2009; participant, "The New AGU: A Forum on the Future," 2009. Authored 158 refereed publications, 107 in AGU journals, seven in AGU monographs (edited one monograph). Crooker, N. U. (1979), Dayside merging and cusp geometry, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 951 (442 citations); Crooker, N. U., et al. (1993), Multiple heliospheric current sheets and coronal streamer belt dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 9371–9381; Crooker, N. U., J. T. Gosling, and S. W. Kahler (2002), Reducing heliospheric magnetic flux from coronal mass ejections without disconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A2), 1028, doi:10.1029/2001JA000236.
Daniel N. Baker—Director III
Scientific interests are plasma physics and energetic particles at planets and Earth. Research: instrument design, data analysis, magnetospheric modeling, and nonlinear dynamics. B.A., 1969; M.S., 1973; Ph.D., 1974; University of Iowa. Employment: California Institute of Technology (research fellow, 1975–1977); Los Alamos National Laboratory (group leader, 1978–1987); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (laboratory chief, 1987–1994); University of Colorado (director, 1994 to present). Fellow of AGU and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); member, International Academy of Astronautics (1993) and Sigma Xi (1974); U.S. delegate, International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (1996–2003); U.S. representative, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (1996–); Space Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences (1995–); executive secretary (1995–2004) and project scientist (1996–1997), STEP (SCOSTEP). Board of Trustees, Universities Space Research Association (USRA); board of directors, eSpace (Louisville, Colo.). NASA Group Achievement Awards (1989, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003); Best Book Award for Physics and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers (1998); Institute of Scientific Information, "Highly Cited" Commendation (2002); Mindlin Foundation Lectureship and Prize (University of Washington) (2003); Robert L. Stearns Award, University of Colorado (2007); AIAA James A. Van Allen Space Environments Award (2010). Selected to U.S. Senior Executive Service (1987); Senior Executive Excellence Award (1992). President, AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) section (2002–2004). Chair, AGU Electronic Publishing Committee (2002–2004); AGU SPA Nominations Committee, (2006); AGU Electronic Publications Review Panel (2002); member, AGU Council (2000–2004), AGU National Hazards Panel (1996–2000), AGU Nominations Committee (2006–2007), AGU Real Estate Committee (1991–1994). Authored or coauthored over 750 refereed publications, more than 300 in AGU journals. (Baker, D. N., et al., Highly relativistic electrons in the Earth's outer magnetosphere: 1. Lifetimes and temporal history 1979–1984, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 1986; Baker, D. N., et al., The evolution from weak to strong geomagnetic activity: An interpretation in terms of deterministic chaos, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1990; Baker, D. N., et al., The neutral line model of substorms: Past results and present view, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 1996).
Rafael L. Bras—Director IV
Interest in hydrology, ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, and fluvial geomorphology. B.S., M.S., and Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1972, 1974, and 1975, respectively. Professor, lab director, department head and chair of the faculty at MIT from 1976 to 2008. Fellow of AGU, American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); multiple committee memberships in all. Sample of present and former advisory and governance experiences: Advisory Board, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation (NSF); Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council; chairman, Earth Systems Sciences and Applications Committee of NASA and the NASA Advisory Committee; National Academy of Sciences Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects; advisor to departments at Cornell University, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Technion, RPI, University of Puerto Rico; University of California Irvine; Instituto Veneto; Stockholm Water Foundation and Prize; Clarke Prize. Board of Directors Fundacion Chile; Alumni Board, MIT; MIT Corporation (official guest as chair of the faculty); Board of Advisors, Reykjavik University; chair of the faculty, MIT; UCI Foundation. Main honors: honorary degree from the University of Perugia, Italy; Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Hall of Fame member; NASA Public Service Medal; Macelwane Medal and Horton Medal of AGU; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize; Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award; Honorary Diplomate of Water Resources Engineering of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers; AGU Hydrology Days Award; member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico, and corresponding member of the Mexican National Academy of Engineering; Killian Lecturer, MIT. AGU roles: associate editor, Water Resources Research (WRR) and Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR)-Atmospheres; Publications Committee; member and chair of editor search committees for Geophysical Research Letters, JGR-Atmospheres, WRR; chairman, Board of Journal Editors; chair, Horton Medal Committee; ad hoc Committee on Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination in Science; Space Station Panel; Fellows Committee; chair, Budget and Finance Committee; Macelwane Medal Committee; Development Planning Committee; Nominations Committee; Panel on U.S. Vision for Space Exploration; president, Hydrology section and AGU Council member and Statutes and Bylaws Committee (committee that produced governance reorganization). Over 180 refereed publications (over 90 in AGU journals), two textbooks.
Kenneth W. Potter—Director IV
Interests in hydrology and water resources, including estimation of hydrological risk, especially flood risk; stormwater modeling, management, and design; assessment and mitigation of human impacts on aquatic systems; hydrologic assessment and restoration of aquatic systems; assessment of and adaptation to hydrologic impacts of climate change. B.S. in geology, 1968, Louisiana State University; Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering, 1976, Johns Hopkins University. Assistant professor, Department of Geosciences, 1976–1978, Pennsylvania State University. Associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1978–1981; associate professor, 1981–1986. Vice president, American Institute of Hydrology, 1997–2000. Chair and vice chair of the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), 2001–2004; member, board of directors of CUAHSI, 2008 to present. Member of 12 National Academy of Engineering committees; chair of the Committee on American River Flood Frequencies and the Committee on Integrated Observations for Hydrologic and Related Sciences. Member of the National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board. Fellow of AGU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. President-elect and president of the Hydrology section; chair of the Board of Journal Editors and the Budget and Finance Committee (two terms); deputy editor of Water Resources Research; member of the Publications Committee, Audit and Legal Affairs Committee, and Budget and Finance Committee. Author of over 50 refereed publications, 23 in AGU journals. Significant publications include "Annual precipitation in the northeast United States: Long memory, short memory, or no memory?," Water Resources Research, 1979; "Hydrological impacts of changing land management practices in a moderately sized agricultural catchment," Water Resources Research, 1991; "Impacts of agriculture on aquatic ecosystems in the humid U.S.," AGU Geophysical Monograph, 2004; "Hydrologic and water quality functions of a disturbed wetland in an agricultural setting," Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2009.
Jason C. Neff—Director V
Areas of interest are the biogeochemical cycles, with a particular focus on carbon cycling and Aeolian dust. B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999. Associate professor, 2009 to present, assistant professor, 2003–2009, University of Colorado, Boulder; research ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 2002–2003; Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001–2002; scientist I, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, 1999–2001. Member, Ecological Society of America. Prior member, Science Advisory Board, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis; coordinator, San Juan Collaboratory; member, scientific review panels for the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and UK National Environment Research Council. Member, Biogeoscience steering committee from 1999 to 2004; Biogeosciences editor, Eos, 2001–2004; associate editor, JGR-Biogeosciences, 2006 to present. Recipient of two University of Colorado, Boulder, Teaching Awards, A. Mellon junior faculty fellowship in conservation and the environment, 2003, Phi Beta Kappa. Author or coauthor of 60 publications, 14 in AGU journals. Most important publications have focused on the production and loss of dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems (Neff and Asner, 2001), the influence of nitrogen on soil carbon cycling (Neff et al., 2001), and the history of dust deposition in the western United States (Neff et al., 2008).
Mary A. Voytek—Director V
Major research interests include microbially mediated geochemical transformations of organic and inorganic compounds in a variety of marine and freshwater environments. B.A., biology, 1980, Johns Hopkins University; M.S., biological oceanography, 1984, University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., biology/ocean sciences, 1995, University of California. NASA employee since 2008; associate project chief, environmental microbiology, in the National Research Program, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 1998–2009; visiting research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany, 1997–1998; Rutgers University Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences postdoctoral fellow, 1995–1997; staff scientist, Environmental Defense Fund (1987–1990); member, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) (1984 to present); member, ASLO Ethics Committee (1993); member, American Society of Microbiology (1991 to present). Member, USGS-NRP Staffing Committee; member, USGS Eastern Region Energy Resources Program Science Review Board (2006–2008); member, U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC) subcommittee on Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) (2002–2003); member, NASA Planetary Protection Advisory Committee (2005–2009); member, Science Advisory Board, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) (2004–2007). Distinguished paper in phycology (1993); invited scholar, German-American Frontiers of Science (1997 and 2001); USGS Superior Service Award (2005). Authored 72 refereed publications, two in AGU journals. Most highly cited papers are in the areas of nitrogen cycling in aquatic systems, bioremediation of chlorinated compounds, and microbial activity in extreme environments. AGU service as secretary of Biogeosciences section (2004–2006); Biogeosciences section meeting chair (2003–2006).
John W. Farrington—Director VI
Major interests are biogeochemistry of organic chemicals in the oceans; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, K-gray; science-policy interactions. Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, B.S., chemistry, 1966, and M.S., chemistry, 1968. Ph.D., chemical oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1972. Postdoc, assistant, associate, and senior scientist, WHOI, 1971–1988. Michael P. Walsh Professor and director, Environmental Sciences Program, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1988–1990. Senior scientist, associate director for education and then vice president for academic programs and dean, WHOI, 1990–2005. American Chemical Society; AAAS; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; Estuarine Research Federation; Sigma Xi (past president, Woods Hole Chapter); The Oceanography Society. Board of trustees of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, 1992 to present; overseer, Sea Education Association, 2002 to present; board of trustees, New Bedford Oceanarium, 1999 to present. Corecipient, 1979 Outstanding Paper Award of the Organic Geochemistry Division of The Geochemical Society; U.S. Geological Survey Ambassador of Science Award; New England Aquarium David B. Stone Award; Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, WHOI; National Associate of the National Academies; Dean’s List for Outstanding Professional Achievement, GSO-URI; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Concepcion, Chile; Samuel P. Stone Alumni Award in Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. AGU service on the Education Award Committee, president-elect 2006–2008 and president 2008–2010, Ocean Sciences section. Publications: 119 science publications, five in AGU journals, and 27 science-policy and education publications.
Margaret Leinen—Director VI
Research interests: paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, climate engineering. B.S., geology, University of Illinois, 1969; M.S., oceanography, Oregon State University, 1975; Ph.D., oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1980. Employment: University of Rhode Island: marine scientist, 1980–1982; assistant research professor, 1982–1985; associate research professor, 1985–1989; professor, 1989–2007. Administrative positions at University of Rhode Island: dean, Graduate School of Oceanography, 1991–2000; vice provost, Marine Programs, 1991–2000; interim dean, College of Environment and Life Science, 1995–2000. Assistant director for geosciences and coordinator of environmental research and education programs, U.S. National Science Foundation, 2000–2007. Climos, Inc., chief science officer, 2007–2009. Climate Response Fund, CEO, 2009 to present. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; chair of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences section, 2008–2009), The Oceanography Society (president, 1994–1996), Geological Society of America, Association of Women Geoscientists. Member and officer of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, Ocean Drilling Program. Member of the boards of the National Council for Science and the Environment; NEON, Inc.; Joint Oceanographic Institutions (chair, 1993–1994); the Consortium for Ocean Research and Education; Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences; Grow Smart Rhode Island; and Rhode Island Save the Bay. Honors: Fellow, AAAS; Fellow, Geological Society of America; Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois; University of Rhode Island Distinguished Alumni Award; Oregon State University Distinguished Alumni Award; Ambassador Award, U.S. Geological Survey; WLNE Freedom Torch Award; Distinguished Lecturer, U.S. Science Advisory Committee, Ocean Drilling Program. AGU Development Board; Ewing Medal Committee (chair); Waldo Smith Award Committee (chair). Sixty-six articles in peer-reviewed journals (11 in AGU journals), 33 peer-reviewed articles in ocean drilling volumes.