Margaret Leinen

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Sacramento Delegation Attendee 2020

Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor for Marine Science of University of California at San Diego. She is an ocean biogeochemist and paleoceanographer whose research includes study of ocean carbon cycling and the role of the oceans in climate. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the AAAS and the Geological Society of America. She served as Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation from 2000-2007. She has served as the President of the American Geophysical Union, the President of The Oceanography Society and the Chair of the AAAS Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science. She has been the Vice Chair of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Chair of the US Global Change Research Program and Vice Chair of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. She currently serves as a member of the Executive Planning Group of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.