Scott C. Doney

Scott Doney is an oceanographer and biogeochemist and the inaugural Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change at the University of Virginia (UVA). He graduated with a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. He was a postdoctoral fellow and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and then a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution before moving to UVA. He served as the Assistant Director for Ocean Climate Science and Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was also awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and the Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science from the Royal Society of Canada. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.