Dean of the College of Sciences, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, and Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology

As the chief academic officer of the College of Sciences, I provide leadership to more than 3,500 students and 500 faculty members and researchers across six internationally ranked schools.

As a physical oceanographer, my research focuses on the ocean’s role in climate variability and change. I am currently the international project lead for the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, an observing system designed to measure the meridional overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic.

I recently served as president of the American Geophysical Union, a professional society of earth and space scientists, with ~62,000 members in 144 countries. I currently serve on the Board of Trustees for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and am a member of the Board of Directors for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

I received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University, a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in physical oceanography, both from the University of Washington. I conducted postdoctoral studies at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.