Jacqueline Grebmeier

Jacqueline Grebmeier is Research Professor and a biological oceanographer at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. She is the U.S. delegate and one of 4 Vice-Presidents for the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), a current member of the U.S. Polar Research Board of the National Academies, and served formerly as a member of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission following appointment by President Clinton. She has contributed to coordinated international and national science planning efforts including service on the steering committee for U.S. efforts during the International Polar Year. Over the last twenty-five years she has participated in over 50 oceanographic expeditions on both US and foreign vessels, many as Chief Scientist, and she was the overall project lead scientist for the U.S. Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions project, which was one of the largest U.S. funded global change studies in the Arctic. Her research includes studies of pelagic-benthic coupling in marine systems, benthic carbon cycling, benthic faunal population structure, and polar ecosystem health. Her role in research projects includes coordination of the benthic biological and sediment tracer studies and analysis of ecosystem status and trends on Arctic continental shelves. A recent study in which she was lead author that was published in Science provides some of the first direct evidence for biological community responses to warming and oceanographic shifts in the northern Bering Sea ecosystem. She has published over 75 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served as editor of several books and journal special issues. Further information of Jackie Grebmeier's research efforts can be found at http://arctic.cbl.umces.edu.