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PHILIP
BOYD (2015)
Dr.
Philip Boyd is a Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry at the Institute for
Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart,
Australia. Dr. Boyd graduated with a BSc. in Marine Biology and
Oceanography at University College of North Wales, UK, followed by a PhD
in marine microbial ecology at the Queens University of Belfast, Ireland.
He was a postdoctoral researcher in both Plymouth and Vancouver as part of
the UK and Canadian JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) programmes. In
1996, Philip then took up a position in New Zealand as a phytoplankton
ecologist with the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA). His
research at a collaborative centre between NIWA and the University of
Otago was pivotal in the University being ranked first of the 30 leading
oceanographic research centres globally over the period 2000-2010 by
Thomson Reuters, based on citations to highly-cited papers. Dr. Boyd as
leader of this collaborative centre was awarded the New Zealand Prime
Minister’s Science Prize in 2011. Dr. Boyd has authored more than 150
peer-reviewed research publications and has been guest editor on seven
volumes of thematic ocean sciences publications.
Dr.
Boyd has been an invited participant on science steering committees to
help in the long-term planning and stewardship of major initiatives such
as the global oceanic survey GEOTRACES and the decade-long Surface Ocean
Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). He has taught at each of the six SOLAS
Summer Schools, together comprising around 400 alumni across atmospheric
and ocean sciences. He served as chair of a SCOR working group on large
scale ocean iron fertilisation (2007-2011), which produced an open access
relational database of the results from 12 mesoscale iron enrichment
experiments. Dr. Boyd was one of six lead authors to write an IPCC chapter
on Ocean Systems for the Working Group II 5th Assessment. In 2014 he was
the vice-chair of an inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Global
Change Biology, and in 2016 he will chair this meeting along with a Gordon
Research Seminar for early career researchers.
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