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  Bess B. Ward
Department Chair
Professor of Geosciences (Biological Oceanograpy)

Department of Geosciences 
M51 Guyot Hall 
Princeton University 
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-5150
Fax: (609) 258-0796
E-Mail:bbw@princeton.edu


Research Interests

              Biogeochemistry, Marine Microbiology, Aquatic Nitrogen Cycle (Antarctic Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Open Ocean, etc.)

Vita

1998-present  Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, New Jersey

1995-1998  Professor, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

1995-1998  Chair, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

1991-1995  Associate Professor, Marine Sciences Department, University of California, SantaCruz

1993 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute für Limnologie, Plön, Germany, October-December

1989-1991 Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

1984-1989 Assistant Research Oceanographer, Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

1987-1991 Associate Member, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego

1987-1988 Chair, Food Chain Research Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

1982-1984 Postgraduate Research Biologist, Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

1976-1982 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle
 

Education
1982 Ph.D., Biological Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1979 M.S., Biological Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1978 (Summer) Microbial Ecology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

1976 B.S., Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

1971-72 Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
 

Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2002.

Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 1999.

Who's Who in American University Teachers, 1997

G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1997.

Distinguished Visiting Biologist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, March 1996.
 

Membership in Professional Societies
1988 -present The Oceanography Society
1982 -present Sigma Xi
1980 -present American Society for Microbiology
1980 -present American Association of Limnology and Oceanography
1978 - 1990 American Association for the Advancement of Science
 

Updated 07/10/06