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William Kurt Dewar

Candidate for Academic Sector Institutional Member Board of Directors seat.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1983 Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography
1980 M.S. in Physical Oceanography, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1977 B.S. in Physics, Minor in Mathematics, the Ohio State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

September, 2006 – Present, Member, Executive Committee of the Florida Coastal Ocean Observing System Consortium

September, 2005 – Present, Chair, Dept of Oceanography, Florida State University

August, 2001 – Present: Pierre Welander Professor of Oceanography at the Florida State University

July 2000 – 2004: Director, the Climate Institute, A Center of Excellence at FSU funded through the Cornerstone Foundation

August 1999 – 2004: Faculty Affiliate, School of Computational Science and Information Technology and co-Director, Program in Computational Climate Dynamics, CSIT

August 1995 - Present: Professor, Department of Oceanography, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

August 1990 - August 1995: Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

December 1985 - August 1990: Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Jan. 1, 1985 - Dec. 31, 1985: Assistant Professor, Research Faculty, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1983-1984 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, the University of North Carolina, Curriculum in Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC.

Funding Sources: NSF, ONR, NOAA, NASA

Author or co-author of over 60 refereed journal articles.

Advised 4 PhD students, currently advise 1 PhD student

Advised 6 MS students, currently advise 2 MS students

Have taught over 40 graduate and undergraduate courses

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