Congratulations to Tom Sanford, Principal Scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory and Professor of Oceanography. Tom has been named a Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair of Oceanographic Sciences. This prestigious award, one of two nationwide, provides $300,000 per year of support for Tom and his postdocs and graduate students over the next four years.
Tom's research interests include the measurement and interpretation of motionally-induced electric fields in the sea and within channels; structure and dynamics of ocean currents, eddies and waves; generation, propagation and dissipation of internal waves and microstructure; magnetotelluric studies in the deep sea; and oceanographic sensors and instrumentation. Tom has advised 7 Ph.D. students and 4 M.S. students and regularly taaught a popular course on methods and measurements in physical oceanography.
August 2008 Archives
Congratulations to Daniel Schwartz, our Manager of Marine Operations, who has been selected as a MTS Fellow. This honor will be conferred on September 16 at the Oceans 2008 MTS/IEEE conference in Quebec.
Dan holds a BA from University of Chicago, a MMA from the University of Rhode Island, is a USCG-licensed Master, and recently received his FAA flight instructor certificate. He has worked in academic marine operations at University of Miami and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution and as a Policy Fellow at Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education. He joined the School of Oceanography in 1998.
The MTS citation:
If professional success were the sole criteria for MTS Fellow, Captain Daniel S. Schwartz would qualify. He has authored 31 papers and presentations throughout his long career and currently serves as Manager of Marine Operations at the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography. But Captain Schwartz has also excelled as a member of MTS, providing an exemplary example of dedication. He has served on the MTS Board of Directors as vice president for education and research and as vice president on technical affairs. During his tenure, he led the reorganization of the MTS technical and professional structure, and was the driving force in a major re-write of the bylaws. While serving as VP for education and research, he convened a task group to evaluate MTS programs that support education and scholarship s, assembling a team of MTS members equally passionate about education. By commissioning this process, he took the first step in a new model for using task forces to further important MTS initiatives as outlined by the Board of Director’s strategic plan. Because of his many successes both professionally and for MTS, the society is pleased to honor Captain Schwartz with an MTS Fellow.
Earlier this week the School of Oceanography hosted Julie Morris, the Division Director for Ocean Sciences at NSF.
Julie had the opportunity to talk with many faculty, staff and students, both in small groups and at a school-wide "Town Hall" held Tuesday afternoon.
At the town hall Julie shared information about activities in OCE, highlighting that OCE is the largest division at NSF with a $310M budget. She noted that climate has garnered the attention of politicians and the public. NSF is developing a climate program spanning environment, energy and economics...the OCE contributions will include the role of the ocean in determining climate, ocean acidification and ecosystems, and ocean responses to an ice-free Arctic. Other special opportunities in OCE include work in the thematic areas of emerging topics in biogeochemical cycles and in paleo perspectives on climate change.
One thing Julie told me she was sorry she had forgotten to say was that OCE feels that they are receiving too few proposals requesting ship time.
