Professor of Oceanography
University of Virginia

Scott Doney is the inaugural Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change in the department of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. His research spans oceanography, climate science and biogeochemistry. He combines field data, satellite remote sensing and numerical models to address how the global carbon cycle and marine ecosystems respond to natural and human-driven climate change. Dr. Doney served as the assistant director for ocean climate science and policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed research publications and co-author of a graduate-level textbook, “Modeling Methods for Marine Science.” Dr. Doney has a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and earned his Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography.

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