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

