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MCNUTT
2000-2002

Marcia K. McNutt, tectonophysicist, born Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 1, 1952. Ph.D., 1978, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 1989-1990; Professor MIT, 1991-1997; President and Chief Executive Officer of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Joined AGU 1976; elected Fellow 1988; President, Tectonophysics Section, 1994-1996.

DICKINSON
2002-2004

Robert E. Dickinson, atmospheric scientist, born March 26, 1940. Ph.D., 1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1968-1990, becoming deputy director of Climate and Global Dynamics Division in 1981; Regents Professor, University of Arizona, 1990-1999; Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech since 1999. Joined AGU 1960; elected Fellow 1988; President, Atmospheric Sciences Section, 1988-1992. Received Roger Revelle Medal, 1996.

ORCUTT
2004-2006

John A. Orcutt, seismologist, born August 29, 1943. Ph.D., 1976, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California San Diego (UCSD). Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD since 1976. Director, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics since 1984. Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair since 1996. President, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, September – October 2000. Joined AGU in 1974. Elected Fellow 1989. General Secretary (two terms), 1998-2002. Received Maurice Ewing Medal, 1994.

KILLEEN
2006-2008

Tim Killeen

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