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George A. Maul
Candidate for Florida At-large Board of Directors seat.
George A. Maul is Professor of Oceanography and Head of the Department of Marine and Environmental Systems, at the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. (with honors) in Marine Transportation from the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and was granted a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer's license. Dr. Maul was awarded a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, where he later served 15 years as Adjunct Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography.
After college, he held ranks from Ensign through Lieutenant Commander in the commissioned officer corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and then was a Senior Research Scientist with the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Dr. Maul has been Chief Scientist on major oceanographic cruises, and has published numerous refereed articles, book chapters, editorials, technical reports, abstracts, and books on oceanography and meteorology. He is a Fellow of the Marine Technology Society, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and is also a member of the American Geophysical Union, Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society), Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society), and the Florida Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Maul was elected to two terms as Vice Chairman of the Subcommission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, and is founding Chairman of the IOCARIBE Tsunami Steering Group of Experts. He chaired the United Nations Environment Programme / Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Joint Task Team on Climatic Changes in the Wider Caribbean Region, and is on the editorial boards of Marine Geodesy, and Remote Sensing of Environment. The Florida Tech Student Government named him College of Engineering Teacher of the Year, and he has received the Faculty Senate Excellence Award for university teaching.
George and his family are members of St. Sebastian By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, and he is the Cubmaster of Pack 391 in Melbourne Beach.
