In a move that would bring more climate know-how into the inner circle of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief Jane Lubchenco, the White House today nominated Scott Doney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to be the agency's chief scientist. "He's an excellent choice," says Robert Gagosian of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington, D.C.
Doney is a well-respected marine geochemist known for his work on the global carbon cycle, climate change, and ocean acidification. "He's a very good scientist. He's very logical and deliberate," Gagosian says. (While Gagosian was president of WHOIfrom 1994 to 2006, he recruited Doney to work there). "He will be a good spokesperson for the science at NOAA."
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