Hill Heat: Next NOAA Chief: Dr. Jane LubchencoScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:www.hillheat.com,2005:TypoTypo2008-12-19T10:52:38-05:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:64d6dd03-a438-453d-9f02-8ebb4c574cf62008-12-19T10:42:00-05:002008-12-19T10:52:38-05:00Next NOAA Chief: Dr. Jane Lubchenco<p>President-elect Barack Obama has <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/12/18/lubchenco_will_helm_national_o.html">reportedly selected</a> Dr. <a href="http://lucile.science.oregonstate.edu/?q=node/view/131">Jane Lubchenco</a>, “an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge,” as the next director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</p>
<p>Lubchenco, like Obama’s science adviser <a href="http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2008/12/18/obama-selects-john-holdren-as-science-adviser">John Holdren</a>, is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.</p>
<p>In 1998, Lubchenco founded the <a href="http://leopoldleadership.org/content/about/history.jsp">Aldo Leopold Leadership Program</a> at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment, the “first formal effort in North America to train mid-career academic environmental scientists to communicate effectively to non-scientific audiences.”</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/sea-champion-picked-for-ocean-air-agency/">interview with the New York Times</a>, Lubchenco strongly advocated holistic efforts to limit human impacts on marine ecosystems:</p>
<blockquote>Networks of no-take marine reserves, for example, can protect habitat, biodiversity, the <span class="caps">BOFFS</span> (big old fat female fish) that provide the bulk of the reproductive potential for future generations, and they can provide insurance against mis-management and environmental change. Networks of no-take areas may well provide the most resilience to climate change by protecting as much genetic and biological diversity as possible and allowing adaptation to occur.</blockquote><p>President-elect Barack Obama has <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/12/18/lubchenco_will_helm_national_o.html">reportedly selected</a> Dr. <a href="http://lucile.science.oregonstate.edu/?q=node/view/131">Jane Lubchenco</a>, “an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge,” as the next director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</p>
<p>Lubchenco, like Obama’s science adviser <a href="http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2008/12/18/obama-selects-john-holdren-as-science-adviser">John Holdren</a>, is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.</p>
<p>In 1998, Lubchenco founded the <a href="http://leopoldleadership.org/content/about/history.jsp">Aldo Leopold Leadership Program</a> at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment, the “first formal effort in North America to train mid-career academic environmental scientists to communicate effectively to non-scientific audiences.”</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/sea-champion-picked-for-ocean-air-agency/">interview with the New York Times</a>, Lubchenco strongly advocated holistic efforts to limit human impacts on marine ecosystems:</p>
<blockquote>Networks of no-take marine reserves, for example, can protect habitat, biodiversity, the <span class="caps">BOFFS</span> (big old fat female fish) that provide the bulk of the reproductive potential for future generations, and they can provide insurance against mis-management and environmental change. Networks of no-take areas may well provide the most resilience to climate change by protecting as much genetic and biological diversity as possible and allowing adaptation to occur.</blockquote>