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António M. Baptista, Ph.D., OHSU, Director  Dr. Baptista is a faculty member in the OGI School of Science & Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He holds joint appointments as professor in the Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, of which he is the founding chairman, and the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Since July 2006, he has been the director of the Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction. Dr. Baptista conducts interdisciplinary research on advanced information technology to improve scientific understanding of the coastal-margin environment. His CORIE project, initially established in 1996, is a pioneering coastal-margin ocean observing system for the Columbia River estuary and adjacent coast. He has led the development of ELCIRC and SELFE, state-of-the-art unstructured-grid computer models for 3D simulation of river and ocean circulation. In collaboration with fisheries biologists responsible for the recovery of threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River basin, he investigates how navigation system improvements and hydropower dam operations impact the estuarine ecosystem. His collaborative research with government agencies in Oregon and Washington has led to the publication of tsunami inundation maps that are used by coastal planners for hazard mitigation. Dr. Baptista holds master's (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the degree of specialist in maritime hydraulics (1986) from Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil in Portugal. He serves on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of NSF’s Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks, and on the Independent Science Board of the California Bay-Delta Authority. He is president-elect of the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS).
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Jack Barth, Ph.D., OSU, co-Director  Dr. Barth received a bachelor's in physics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and a Ph.D. in oceanography in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. His research seeks to understand the spatially and temporally variable circulation, water mass structure and ecosystem response in Oregon waters. Jack has led a number of research, technology development and ocean observing systemprojects off the Oregon and the Pacific Northwest coasts. He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers, has served on the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Northeast Pacific Program Executive Committee and NSF’s Coastal Ocean Processes Steering Committee, and presently serves on NSF’s Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION) Observatory Steering Committee. Over the years, Jack has interacted with many ocean users, in particular central Oregon fishermen through the SAFE program, and provided scientific input to OPAC meetings.
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David L. Martin, Ph.D., UW, co-Director  Dr. Martin is the associate director for science and technology integration at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. He was awarded a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington in 1992. His doctoral research dealt with quantitative methods for addressing atmospheric radiance contamination of multispectral remote sensing measurements of the ocean. He served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Navy and retired at the rank of captain. During his military career, he served in a number of senior leadership positions in the naval and national oceanographic community, including as director of the Operational Oceanography Center at the Naval Oceanographic Office, director of the National Ice Center in Suitland, Md., assistant for environmental sciences for the deputy undersecretary of defense for science and technology and, in the position he held immediately prior to assuming his present position at APL, as the first director of Ocean.US, the federal, interagency planning and coordination office for the national effort to develop and deploy an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).
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Peter Zuber, Ph.D., OHSU, co-Principal Investigator  Dr. Zuber is from upstate New York and received his bachelor's degree in microbiology in 1976 at the University of Maine. He earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Virginia in 1982 and was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He has held assistant, associate and full professor positions at Oklahoma State University and Louisiana State University Medical Center. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Technical University of Berlin and in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology at Harvard University Medical School. In 1998, he accepted a position as professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (OGI), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is now professor in the new Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems in the OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU. While at OGI and OHSU, he has received departmental and institutional recognition for excellence in teaching and research. He is author of more than 70 scientific publications and has served as journal editorial board member, and as study section panelist at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. As a microbiologist and molecular geneticist, his research over the years has dealt with the interrelated areas of microbial stress response and the production of antimicrobial agents by microorganisms. His research has uncovered novel mechanisms of gene control that govern the response of microorganisms to encounters with harsh environments and toxic agents.
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Bruce Menge, Ph.D., OSU, co-Principal Investigator  A native Minnesotan, Dr. Menge graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1961 with a BA in Zoology. An experience in the Florida Keys combined with a fun course in Ecology at the U of M led him to seek a Ph.D. in marine ecology. He joined Robert T. Paine’s lab at the University of Washington in 1965, and his thesis research focused on the ecology of a predatory sea star. His graduate experience crystallized his career research goals, which remain focused on determining how communities and ecosystems work. His work has taken him to many coastal marine ecosystems around the world, with major stops in the San Juan Islands, the Channel Islands, New England, Panama, Oregon and northern California, Chile, South Africa, Australia, Guam, Eniwetok Atoll, Hawaii, Sweden, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica and New Zealand. His specific interest has always been in the role of species interactions and how these are modified by environmental context. He uses the “comparative-experimental” approach to work out the dynamics of these systems. During his career, his focus has steadily expanded in both spatial and temporal scope, and recent efforts have involved scaling-up to include explicit investigation of the role of oceanographic conditions on communities at a global scale in a new approach he terms “experimental macroecology.” Understanding the mechanisms underlying dynamics has led him to embrace physiological and molecular approaches, and his work is strongly interdisciplinary and collaborative. One of his true joys has been training of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate scholars, and his lab, shared with his spouse and colleague Jane Lubchenco, has produced 25 Ph.D. graduates and 10 postdoctoral fellows. He is a lead investigator both in PISCO, the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, and ICORUMBA, the International Consortium for Research in Upwelling Marine Biogeographic Areas, an international collaboration of marine ecologists from South Africa, Chile, New Zealand and the U.S. West Coast.
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