Dr.
Margaret Leinen Leaves National Science Foundation To Join Climos
SAN
FRANCISCO, California (December 5, 2006) – Climos, a new company which plans to leverage natural processes to
reduce greenhouse gasses, announced today that Dr. Margaret Leinen will be
joining Climos as Chief Science Officer in January 2007. Dr. Leinen is
currently the Assistant Director for Geosciences at the U.S. National Science
Foundation (NSF). Since 2000, Dr. Leinen has managed the Geosciences
Directorate, the second largest at NSF, with an annual budget of $700M that
funds the majority of new publicly-funded research initiatives in ocean,
atmospheric and earth science in the
“My work at NSF has been extremely rewarding—I’m
proud of what I accomplished there,” commented Dr. Leinen, “But I feel that now
is the right time to leverage the results of scientific research to address the
serious climate issues facing our planet.”
Previously, Dr. Leinen was Dean, Graduate School
of Oceanography and Vice Provost for Marine and Environmental Programs at the
University of Rhode Island. Dr. Leinen
is also a well-known researcher in paleo-oceanography and
paleo-climatology. Her work focused on
ocean sediments and their relationship to global biogeochemical cycles and the
history of the Earth’s climate. In 1983,
on a dive in the deep-water submersible, DSRV ALVIN, off the coast of
Washington State, she was the first to discover high temperature, volcanic
vents at depth on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The “black smokers” that characterize
these vents contain unique varieties of “chemosynthetic” life (organisms that
depend on inorganic molecules as a source of energy rather than sunlight)—this
is the only form of life on Earth we know of that is not ultimately dependent
on photosynthesis.
Above and beyond her day-to-day duties at NSF, Dr.
Leinen led the Geosciences Directorate in a series of transformational
initiatives. Specifically, she:
During
her career at NSF, Dr. Leinen served as the Vice Chair of the interagency Climate Change Science Program and as a
Co-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Joint Subcommittee on Ocean
Science and Technology, at which she had a leadership role in the
development of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan for the federal
government.
Dr.
Leinen is past president of The Oceanography Society. She served on the Board of Governors of the
Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., on the Board of Directors of the
Bermuda Biological Station for Research and on and the Ocean Research Advisory
Council. Dr. Leinen also served as the
Vice Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and on the Board
on Global Change of the National Research Council/National Academy of
Sciences. She is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society
of America.
Climos is based in
Richard Whilden, co-founder and Chairman remarked,
“Climos is a vocal advocate of regulation and action to aggressively reduce
emissions, but we also realize that there are a large percentage of emissions
that cannot be immediately addressed in this way. Particularly in the past year there has been
an enormous increase in interest from citizens and major corporations to seriously
explore how meaningful action can be taken to help them become fully carbon
neutral.”
Climos is part of a new category of companies
often referred to as “greentech” or “cleantech”.
Contact:
Peter Harrison, pharrison@climos.com, 415-378-9668
To be notified
of forthcoming announcements, please email:
news@climos.com
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