Staff Changes

We have had numerous Staff Changes in the last several months. Don Heinrichs, Oceanographic Centers and Facilities Section Head, retired after 25 years of service to NSF. He plans to travel more and spend time with his family. However, occasionally we still have the luck of running into him in the office! Michael Reeve, former Ocean Sciences Research Section (OSRS) Head, has filled Don's position and OCE is in the process of interviewing candidates for the OSRS Head position.

Another long-timer, Connie Sancetta, also officially retired at the end of 1999. She is still running the Earth System History (ESH) Program for this year and is in the office a couple of times a week. Apparently no one has told her the meaning of retirement (thank goodness!)

Dave Kadko, an Associate Program Director for Chemical Oceanography has left NSF to return to his research at the University of Miami, RSMAS in the Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Department.

Both Alison Sipe and Elizabeth Day, 1999 Knauss Sea Grant Fellows, have extended their time here at NSF. Alison is now a Science Assistant for the Biological Oceanography Program and Elizabeth is an Assistant Program Director for our Education Programs.

We have also had several new additions to the Division.

We have a new Office Automation Clerk, Elana Khanna, who helps in the day to day tasks of running the Division. She has previously worked at The Nature Conservancy and The National Park Trust. She has a fourteen year old daughter and an active extended family.

Cynthia Suchman has joined the Biological Oceanography Program staff as an Assistant Program Manager. A 1999 John Knauss Sea Grant Fellow, Cynthia comes to NSF following a year on Capitol Hill where she worked for the House Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation and Oceans. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Rhode Island, studying the behavior and feeding ecology of zooplankton.

Richard Poore is the new Associate Program Director for the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program. He is here on a one year renewable interagency agreement. Dick is from the U.S. Geological Survey and his research interests are paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and biostratigraphy.

William Wiseman has come on board as Physical Oceanography's new Program Director. Bill has been at Louisiana State University's Coastal Studies Institute for the past 28 years. Much of this time has been spent in interdisciplinary, descriptive coastal and estuarine physical oceanography, involving interactions with both biological oceanographers and marine geologists.

Simone Metz, coming from the Florida Institute of Technology, joined the Chemical Oceanography Program as an Associate Director back in October of 1999. Simone's research has focused on understanding the chemical and mineralogical influences on the trace metal concentrations of high temperature fluids from vent sites on the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge and the TAG Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 26°N.

Rachel Pressley is our new student-hire, helping with various tasks around the office. Rachel is a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park and is studying economics.