Dr. Eric Hartwig,
Associate Director of
the Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology
Directorate at
the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington,
D.C.,
assumed the position of President of The Oceanography Society
in August 2002 for a two-year term. Dr. Hartwig was elected to
the position of President-Elect of The Oceanography Society (TOS)
in July 2000.
The Oceanography Society
was founded in 1988 and has
1,400 international members representing
more than 40
countries. Its goals are to disseminate knowledge
of
oceanography and its applications through research and education,
to promote communication among oceanographers, and to provide
a
constituency for consensus-building across all the disciplines
of the field. The society is dedicated to a multidisciplinary
view of oceanography through its activities and publications.
TOS aims to link and support all the ocean sciences and related
technologies.
Dr. Hartwig joined
NRL in October 1992 as the
Laboratory's Associate Director of
Research for Ocean and
Atmospheric Science and Technology. In
this position, he is
responsible for research in the fields of
acoustics, remote
sensing, oceanography, marine geosciences,
marine meteorology,
and space science. He also served as NRL's
Acting Director of
Research from October 2001 through May 2002,
where he was
responsible for the Laboratory's technical program,
its
planning, conduct, and staffing; evaluation of the technical
competence of personnel, liaison with the scientific community,
selection of subordinate technical personnel; exchange of technical
information; and the effective execution of the NRL research
mission.
Dr. Hartwig was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
November 22, 1946. He obtained his B.S.
degree in biological
sciences form the University of Texas at
El Paso in 1968 and
his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography
in 1974.
After completing his graduate studies, Dr. Hartwig held
research positions at the Scottish Marine Biological Association,
the Chesapeake Bay Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Marine
Ecological Consultants, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the
University of California, Berkeley.
Following this, Dr.
Hartwig
joined the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1982 as
a
scientific officer in the Oceanic Chemistry/Biology Program.
When the program split into an Oceanic Chemistry and Oceanic
Biology Program, Dr. Hartwig became Program Manager of the Oceanic
Biology Program. In 1987, Dr. Hartwig was selected as Director
of Ocean Sciences at ONR.
Dr. Hartwig is a member
of the
Oceanography Society (TOS), American Society of Limnology
and
Oceanography (ASLO), American Geophysical Union (AGU), Sigma
Xi, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
was on the AGU Ocean Sciences Fellows Nominating Committee, the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Cody Award Selection Committee,
and TOS Meetings Committee Chair. In 1996 and again in 2001,
Dr. Hartwig was presented the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious
Executive in the Senior Executive Service. Dr. Hartwig represents
the United States on the Scientific Committee of National
Representatives
for NATO's SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in
La Spezia, Italy
and is a past Chairman of that Committee.
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