Raleigh Hood, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

 I completed my Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1990, followed by postdoctoral research at Oregon State University and the University of Miami, before joining the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in 1995. I have conducted research in coastal and open ocean environments all over the world, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and both the east and west coasts of North America.  Presently my research is focused primarily on using models to simulate and predict biogeochemical and ecological variability in marine environments.  I have also been involved in research and program development in the Indian Ocean for more than 25 years. These efforts include co-development of one of the first coupled physical-biogeochemical models of the Indian Ocean, and the formation of the Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) Program and the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2). I was chair of the SIBER Steering Committee from 2010 to 2019 and I am currently a member of the IIOE-2 Core Group / Steering Committee as co-chair of the Science and Research Working Group. I was the lead author of the SIBER and IIOE-2 Science Plans.