Anya Waite
Dr Waite is a co-chair of GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System). She sits on the CIOOS Atlantic Regional Oversight Committee. She was appointed Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean) of Dalhousie University and Scientific Director of Ocean Frontier Institute commencing Sept. 1, 2018.
She previously served as Section Head of Polar Biological Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and as Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Biology at the University of Bremen. She sits on the boards of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and The Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR), on the Editorial Board of the international journal Limnology and Oceanography, co-chair of the SCOR Working Group on biological observation systems, “P-OBS” and has been on the Steering Committee of the Southern Ocean Observation System (SOOS) since 2017. Her current interests include nitrogen fluxes in polar oceans and particle dynamics in mesoscale eddies.
