Margaret Leinen

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Margaret S. Leinen
Born (1946-09-20) September 20, 1946 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Rhode Island
OccupationDirector
Known for Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology
Scientific career
Institutions Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, University of Rhode Island
Thesis Paleochemical signatures in Cenozoic Pacific sediments  (1979)

Margaret Leinen (born September 20, 1946) is an American paleoceanographer and paleoclimatologist. In 2013, Leinen was appointed the 11th director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as the dean of the School of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. [1] She founded the Climate Response Fund, a non-profit focused on enabling better understanding, regulation and responsible use of climate engineering research, and served as its president for a time. For two years, Leinen also worked as chief science officer for a startup company in green technology and climate change mitigation. [2] Leinen has also served as the U.S. Department of State science envoy for the oceans to Latin America and the Pacific. [3]

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Education

In 1969 Leinen received her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Illinois, a master's in geological oceanography from Oregon State University in 1975, [4] and her doctorate in oceanography in 1980 from the University of Rhode Island. [5] [6]

Honors

She has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [7] and of the Geological Society of America. [8] In 2016, she was selected as a U.S. Science Envoy by the United States State Department. [9] In 2020, Leinen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10] [2] and was named a fellow of The Oceanography Society [11] and an Honorary Member of the AMS in 2022. [12]

Service

Dr. Leinen was selected to serve as co-chair of the Decade Advisory Board for UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative. She has served as president of the American Geophysical Union, chair of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Section of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and president of the Oceanography Society. She serves on the boards of the California Ocean Science Trust and Science Counts. She is the vice chair of the research board of the $500 million Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Margaret S. Leinen". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  3. ↑ "U.S. Science Envoy Program". United States Department of State. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  4. ↑ Leinen, Margaret (1976). Biogenic silica sedimentation in the central equatorial Pacific during the Cenozoic (Thesis). Corvallis, Or. OCLC   837589083.
  5. ↑ "Director's Biography". Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. March 2014. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Leinen, Margaret S (1979). Paleochemical signatures in Cenozoic Pacific sediments (Thesis). OCLC   8613242.
  7. ↑ "American Association for the Advancement of Science". Archived from the original on January 6, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
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  13. ↑ Leinen, Margaret (1989), "The pelagic clay province of the North Pacific Ocean", The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii, North America: Geological Society of America, pp. 323–335, doi:10.1130/dnag-gna-n.323, ISBN   0-8137-5208-6 , retrieved February 18, 2024
  14. ↑ Blank, Marsha; Leinen, Margaret; Prospero, Joseph M. (March 1985). "Major Asian aeolian inputs indicated by the mineralogy of aerosols and sediments in the western North Pacific". Nature. 314 (6006): 84–86. Bibcode:1985Natur.314...84B. doi:10.1038/314084a0. ISSN   1476-4687.
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  16. ↑ Doh, Seong-Jae; King, John W.; Leinen, Margaret (August 1988). "A rock-magnetic study of giant piston core LL44-GPC3 from the central North Pacific and its paleoceanographic implications". Paleoceanography. 3 (1): 89–111. Bibcode:1988PalOc...3...89D. doi:10.1029/PA003i001p00089. ISSN   0883-8305.
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