Multiple Appointment Announcements
NSF Division of Polar Programs
Dr. Thomas Wilch Appointed Program Director
Antarctic Earth SciencesDr. Diane McKnight joins Arctic Sciences Section
- Dr. Thomas Wilch Appointed Program Director
Antarctic Earth Sciences
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Thomas Wilch as Program
Director for Antarctic Earth Sciences (AES) as a participant in the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act Program (IPA). He will be replacing Dr.
Mark Kurz, who has managed the AES program since April 2013 and whose
appointment ends on September 30, 2015.
Dr. Wilch has worked on a variety of Antarctic research projects,
including two that focus on using volcanic records to reconstruct the
history of the Antarctic ice sheet and on the multi-national ANDRILL
project, which drills deep into Antarctic sediments to study glacial
history and predict future climates. He comes to NSF from Albion College
in Albion, Michigan, where he is Chairman of the Department of Geologic
Sciences. A Quaternary geologist, he specializes in glacial geology,
physical volcanology, and paleoclimate history. He holds a M.S. in
Quaternary Studies from University of Maine, Orono, Maine, and a Ph.D.
in Geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
Socorro, New Mexico.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Thomas Wilch to the Division of Polar
Programs and the GEO team. Dr. Wilch started his NSF appointment on an
intermittent basis and will begin full time at NSF on 29 June.
Scott Borg
Head, Antarctic Sciences
NSF/GEO/PLR
- Dr. Diane McKnight joins Arctic Sciences Section
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Diane McKnight as a
Program Director in the Arctic Sciences section in the Division of Polar
Programs, Geosciences Directorate. Dr. McKnight's primary assignment is
to join Dr. Neil Swanberg in managing the ARCSS program. She will begin
her service at NSF on 15 June, 2015.
Dr. McKnight comes to NSF from the University of Colorado where she
holds an appointment as Professor of Civil, Environmental and
Architectural Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and
Alpine Research. She also serves as Director of the Center for Water,
Earth Science and Technology. Dr. McKnight is a hydrologist who studies
coupled ecological, biogeochemical and hydrologic processes in lakes,
streams, and watersheds, primarily in polar and mountain regions. She is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the
American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
We welcome Dr. McKnight to NSF and look forward to working with her to
advance Arctic Science.
Eric S. Saltzman
Head, Arctic Science
Division of Polar Programs
National Science Foundation
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