Margaret S. Leinen (born September 20, 1946) is an American paleoceanographer and paleoclimatologist. In the 1990s she served as a dean and the Vice Provost for Marine and Environmental Programs at the University of Rhode Island and was appointed as the head of the Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation in January, 2000.[3] 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. She also served as chief science officer for a startup company in green technology and climate change mitigation.[4] She served the executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Marine and Environmental Initiatives at Florida Atlantic University.[5] 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.[6] She has also served as the U.S. Department of State science envoy for the oceans to Latin America and the Pacific.[7]
Upon earning her doctoral degree, Leinen began her career as a research scientist and faculty member at URI, and quickly demonstrated a talent for academic administration. From 1991 to 1999 she served the Vice Provost for Marine and Environmental Programs at the University of Rhode Island, and between 1995 and 1999, simultaneously served as the dean of two URI colleges (Graduate School of Oceanography and College of the Environment and Life Sciences). In January, 2000 Leinen was appointed as the head of the Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.[3] She founded the Climate Response Fund, a 501-c3 non-profit organization 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.[4] She served the executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Marine and Environmental Initiatives at Florida Atlantic University.[12] In 2013, Leinen was appointed the 11th director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, and served until 2025.[13][14]
Leinen, Margaret (1989). "The pelagic clay province of the North Pacific Ocean" The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii, Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/dnag-gna-n.323[21]
Blank, M., Leinen, M. & Prospero, J. Major Asian aeolian inputs indicated by the mineralogy of aerosols and sediments in the western North Pacific. Nature 314, 84–86 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/314084a0[22]
Schmidt, G., Severinghaus, J., Abe-Ouchi, A. et al. Overestimate of committed warming. Nature 547, E16–E17 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22803[23]
Doh, S., King, J., Leinen, M. A rock-magnetic study of giant piston core LL4-GPC3 from the central North Pacific and its paleoceanographic implications Paleoceanography 3 (1): 89-111[24]
Rea, David K., Margaret Leinen, and Thomas R. Janecek. "Geologic approach to the long-term history of atmospheric circulation." Science 227.4688 (1985): 721-725.[25]
Leinen, M., Prospero, J. M., Arnold, E., & Blank, M. (1994). Mineralogy of aeolian dust reaching the North Pacific Ocean: 1. Sampling and analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 99(D10), 21017-21023.[26]
↑ American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 23rd edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006.
↑ "Director's Biography". Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. March 2014. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
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