Bradley Moran selected as the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences dean
September 8, 2015
S. Bradley Moran, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, will
become dean of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks. He will begin work between January and May 2016.Moran recently served as acting director of President Obama’s National Ocean Council and assistant director for ocean sciences in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Earlier, he was program director in the Chemical Oceanography Program at the National Science Foundation.
Before leaving for Washington in early 2012, he was co-director and co-principal investigator of the Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and served as assistant vice president for research administration at URI.
He earned a doctorate in oceanography from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1990, and conducted his post-doctoral research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
Moran will replace Joan Braddock, who has served as the school's interim dean since Michael Castellini retired in December 2014.
Read more about Moran here.
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