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SCOTT
DONEY (2013)
The
A.G. Huntsman Foundation is pleased to announce that the winner of the
2013 A.G. Huntsman Award is Dr. Scott Doney, in recognition of his
fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of ocean
biology in global biochemical cycles; for his analysis of the
vulnerability of ocean biological processes to global change, particularly
ocean acidification; for his leadership in bringing the community’s
intellectual assets to bear on some of the most pressing scientific
problems of our time; and for his tireless efforts to educate both
students of oceanography and the general public on complex issues related
to changes in the global ocean..
Dr.
Scott Doney is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry
and Geochemistry and presently the Director of the Ocean and Climate
Change Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He
graduated with a BA in chemistry from the University of California, San
Diego in 1986 and a 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. He was awarded the James B. Macelwane
Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2000, WHOI Ocean and Climate
Change Institute Fellow in 2003, a Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2004,
the WHOI W. Van Alan Clark Sr. Chair in 2007, and a AAAS Fellow in 2010.
He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications and
co-authored a text book on data analysis and modeling methods for the
marine sciences.
His
science interests span 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. A current area of interest is on ocean
acidification due to the invasion into the ocean of carbon dioxide and
other chemicals from fossil fuel burning. He 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 U.S. 2013 National Climate Assessment. 
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