Monday, June 6th, 2016
7:30 pm
Scott Doney is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whose expertise spans oceanography, climate and biogeochemistry, with particular emphasis on the application of numerical models and data analysis methods to global-scale questions.
Much of his research focuses on how the global carbon cycle and ocean ecology respond to natural and human-driven climate change. One of his current areas of study is ocean acidification due to the invasion into the ocean of dioxide and other chemicals from fossil fuel burning. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed research publications and co-author of a textbook on data analysis and modeling methods for the marine sciences. He is regularly called on as a source for stories on climate change and ocean acidification by mainstream media outlets, and he has testified before the U.S. Congress on the issue.
Scott Doney was the inaugural chair of the U.S. Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program, and he is currently on the steering committees for the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and the U.S. CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program and a convening lead author for the Oceans and Marine Resources chapter of the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment. He is the past Director of the WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute and presently the Chair of WHOI Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department. He was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2000, WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute Fellow in 2003, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2004, the WHOI W. Van Alan Clark Sr. Chair in 2007, an AAAS Fellow in 2010, and the Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science in 2013.
He graduated with a BA in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1986 and went on his first oceanographic expedition in 1984 with Sea Education Association. He completed his PhD in chemical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography in 1991. He was a postdoctoral fellow and later a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, before returning to Woods Hole in 2002.
This event is co-sponsored by the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Office of the Unites States Consulate General in Halifax.
For additional information:
Richard MacMichael
902-424-8897
richard.macmichael@novascotia.ca