KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Can Global Warming Trigger a Big Chill?

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

"Can Global Warming Trigger a Big Chill?"
New York Marriott Marquis, Westside Ballroom Salons 1-2, 5th Floor
Friday, June 3rd, 12:30 – 1:00PM

Robert B. Gagosian President and Director of the Institution Directorate Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 Mailstop: 40A Phone: (508) 289-2500 rgagosian@whoi.edu

Director Robert B. Gagosian came to Woods Hole in 1972 as an Assistant Scientist. After spending his undergraduate years at MIT, he earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Columbia University in 1970 and held a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1970 to 1972. At WHOI, he held successive appointments in the Chemistry Department, culminating in the chairmanship in 1982. He was appointed Associate Director for Research in 1987 and Senior Associate Director in 1992. He became Acting Director in mid-1993 and was named Director in January of 1994. His research, largely on marine geochemistry of biologically produced organic compounds with emphasis on transport processes, has resulted in more than 85 scientific papers as author/co-author. He has served on a wide variety of visiting committees and research panels for the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and universities and research organizations in the US and internationally. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the 52-institution Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education from 1998 to 2001, was a Faculty Fellow of the World Economic Forum in 2001 and 2002, and is a member of the Science Advisory Panel of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Science Advisory Board. An active member of the Geochemical Society of America, Gagosian is also a member of four other US professional organizations and the European Association of Organic Geochemists. In addition, he serves as a regional board member of BankBoston and on the corporations of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and the Sea Education Association. He has supervised 14 graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, and has participated in four major field programs and 14 oceanographic cruises, including seven as chief scientist.