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DONALD F. BOESCH Ph.D., President
President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, since 1990.
Interim Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 2002-03, and Vice-Chancellor for Environmental Sustainability, University System of Maryland, 2008-. Senior Marine Scientist and Associate Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary, 1977-80 (associate marine scientist & assistant professor, 1972-77). Executive Director, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, 1980-90. Professor of Marine Science, Louisiana State University, 1980-90.
Member, Steering Committee, Maryland Environment 2000, Department of the Environment, 1994-96. Chair, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Department of Natural Resources, 1996-2001; Harmful Algal Outbreak Technical Advisory Committee, Department of Natural Resources, 1997-2002; Scientific and Technical Working Group, Maryland Commission on Climate Change, 2007-; Scientific Advisory Panel, BayStat Subcabinet, 2008-.
Vice-Chair, Ocean Studies Board, and member, Committee on America's Climate Choices, National Research Council of the National Academies. Member, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 2010-.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1946. Tulane University, B.S. (biology), 1967; College of William and Mary, Ph.D. (marine science), 1971.
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