The UNOLS Nominating Committee has assembled the following slate of candidates for the UNOLS Council positions to be filled at the 1999 Annual Meeting. This election will be held in accordance with the UNOLS Charter as readopted February 1999. The current membership of the Council and a UNOLS Directory are attached.
Nominations may be made from the floor during the Annual Meeting.
Such nominations may be made only by designated representatives of UNOLS
institutions, and must be accompanied by the nominee's concurrence and
qualifications. The nominee must meet the requirements of the UNOLS
Council position he/she is nominated to fill.
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AT-LARGE (3 year term) - individual affiliated with any UNOLS Member Institution:
OPERATOR REPRESENTATIVE (3 year term) - from among designated UNOLS Member Operator institutions:
James Bauer (College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute) Biogeochemist
Ph.D., 1989, University of Maryland, Marine Biogeochemistry
James Bauer has participated in more than 20 seagoing programs on seven
different UNOLS vessels since 1987. He studies natural carbon isotope geochemistry
of marine organic matter and carbon cycling.
Dennis Hansell (Bermuda Biological Station for Research) Biogeochem
Ph.D., 1989, Oceanography/Biogeochemistry, Univ. Alaska
Dennis Hansell's research program investigates the carbon and nitrogen
cycles in the global ocean. He has extensive experience with UNOLS, NOAA
and other ships dating from 1985. Presently serving first term on UNOLS
Council.
David Naar (Univ. South Florida) Marine Geologist
Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1990
Has experience at sea on six different UNOLS vessels since 1979, plus
other smaller vessels, and French and Asian research ships. David
is familiar with ship scheduling, staff retention issues and facilities
funding. He can provide a viewpoint from MGG research off the coastal
waters of the California Channel Islands, Chile Trench, East Pacific Rise,
and the Florida Carbonate Platform.
Will Sager (Texas A&M) Marine Geologist/Geophysicist
Ph.D., 1983, Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii.
His research interests include plate tectonics, paleomagnetism, and
high-resolution seafloor mapping. He has sailed on 31 research cruises
in 22 years. Current projects include a high-resolution side-scan sonar
study of carbonate mounds on the Mississippi-Alabama outer shelf, a high-resolution
side-scan sonar study of oil seeps on the Louisiana slope, a multi-disciplinary
geological/geophysical study of Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, and a paleomagnetism
of seamounts in the Gilbert and Tokelau
Islands.
Denis Wiesenburg (Univ. Southern Mississippi) Geochemist
Ph.D. Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 1980
Denis Wiesenburg has participated in over 40 research cruises in the
north and south Atlantic Ocean, north Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean
Sea and Norwegian Sea, including 512 days at sea include a DSV ALVIN dive
and five days in the Navy research submersible NR-1. His current research
interests include understanding the interaction of physical, chemical and
biological processes in the ocean. As the USM UNOLS representative since
1994, he has attended the last five UNOLS Annual meetings.
Marsh Youngbluth (Harbor Branch) Biologist
Ph.D. (Biology, 1972) Stanford University.
He has been chief scientist on numerous cruises with UNOLS vessels. In addition,
he has many years of manned/unmanned submersible experience with HBOI, MBARI,
HURL, and IFREMER. Recent work within the department includes collaborations
with scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studying population
dynamics and predator-prey relationships of siphonophores.