Founding Members

Thirteen Lead Institutions in US-SODA

  • Anthony Koppers (chair)
    Senior Advisor to Vice President of Research
    Oregon State University
  • Paula Bontempi
    Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography
    University of Rhode Island
  • Claudia Mora
    Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences
    The University of Texas at Austin
  • Demian Saffer
    Director, Institute for Geophysics
    The University of Texas at Austin
  • Maya Tolstoy
    Dean, College of the Environment
    University of Washington
  • Christina Ravelo
    Chair, Ocean Sciences Department
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Margaret Leinen
    Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    University of California, San Diego
  • Maureen Raymo
    Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    Columbia University, New York
  • David Goldberg
    Deputy Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs.
    Columbia University, New York
  • Larry Mayer
    Director, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
    University of New Hampshire
    Chair, U.S. National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science
  • Peter de Menocal
    President and Director
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Rick Murray
    Vice President for Science and Engineering
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Thomas Frazer
    Dean, College of Marine Science
    University of South Florida
  • Bradley Moran
    Dean, College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences
    University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • Bernard Coakley
    Professor, Geophysical Institute
    University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • Chip Fletcher
    Interim Dean, SOEST
    University of Hawaii
  • Kenneth Miller
    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    Rutgers University
  • Jim Wright
    Department Chair
    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    Rutgers University
  • Becky Robinson (ex-officio)
    Chair, U.S. Science Advisory Committee IODP
    University of Rhode Island
  • Carl Brenner (ex-officio)
    Director, U.S. Science Support Program IODP
    Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
    Columbia University, New York