New JCBO Chair

Effective immediately, the new chair of JCBO is WHOI Senior Scientist Simon Thorrold (pictured here).  All requests for extensions, course substitutions, etc., should be sent to him. Simon is replacing Ed DeLong (MIT, CEE) who has done a great job leading the Joint Program in Biological Oceanography during the past three years.  

Here's a brief biography of our new chair, clipped from a 2004 Oceanus article:

Born in New Zealand, Simon Thorrold received his B.S. from the University of Auckland, and Ph.D. from James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia.  He traveled far across the Pacific and North America, to the Caribbean Marine Research Center and Old Dominion University, Virginia.  He came to WHOI in 2001... Using geochemical markers, he traces dispersal, migration, and population dynamics of marine invertebrates and fish... With much of his work in the South Pacific and Caribbean, Simon has been on many cruises, logging 1000 hours of scuba diving and 800 hours in tropical environs.

Please join me in thanking both Ed DeLong for his valuable service to the Joint Program and Simon Thorrold for agreeing to take the helm.