Dr. Harvey E. Seim

Dr. Harvey E. Seim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a B.S. in Marine Sciences and M.S. in Geology from the University of South Carolina and earned his Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of Washington in 1993. After being a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution he joined the faculty at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, where he was the lead PI of the South Atlantic Bight Synoptic Ocean Observing Network (SABSOON), one of the first NOPP-funded ocean observatory efforts. He was also a co-PI on the SAB Limited Area Modeling (SABLAM) program, a NOPP-funded nowcast/forecast modeling effort. SABSOON was the first recipient of the NOPP Excellence in Partnering Award (2001), and led to Dr. Seim being a panelist on partnerships before the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. Dr. Seim is currently the lead PI and Chief Operating Officer of SEACOOS; is the UNC-Chapel Hill Trustee to the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), is a member of the SECOORA Steering Committee and head of the Observations and Data Transmission (O&DT) Working Group. Dr. Seim’s research focuses on coastal and estuarine processes. His work has taken him to many coastal regions around the world, including the Baltic, Gulf of Mexico, Malaysia, Puget Sound, and the Bosporus, and he has authored or co-authored more than 30 refereed publications. Within SEACOOS his group at UNC-CH (NCCOOS) has developed a stand-alone meteorological and oceanographic instrument package for use of fixed platforms operated on offshore towers and buoys, operates an ocean surface current mapping system along the Outer Banks and a Webb Slocum coastal glider, and maintains the websites for SEACOOS, SECOORA and NCCOOS.