Scott Doney is a marine scientist at the University of Virginia known for his work on biogeochemical modeling. Doney is the Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change,[1] a fellow of the American Geophysical Union,[2] the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3], and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. He served from 2022 to 2024 as the Assistant Director for Ocean Climate Science and Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.[4]
Scott Christopher Doney | |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Virginia |
Thesis | A study of North Atlantic ventilation using transient tracers (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | William J. Jenkins |
Doney has a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California at San Diego and earned his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program.[5] He moved to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where he started a postdoctoral fellowship in 1991. In 1993 he joined the science staff at NCAR, and remained there until he moved to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2002. In 2017 he moved to the University of Virginia where he is the Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change.[1]
Doney is known for his use of computational methods including modeling, satellite remote sensing, and data science in the field of oceanography.[6] His work centers on how ecosystems respond to natural[7][8] and human-induced change[9][10] through examination of coastal and ocean carbon cycles.